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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05188	Three Christian sermons, made by Lodouike Lauatere, minister of Zuricke in Heluetia, of famine and dearth of victuals: and translated into English, as being verie fit for this time of our dearth: by VV. Barlow Bachelar in Diuinitie; Von thüwre unn hunger dry predigen. English	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1596 (1596)	STC 15322; ESTC S108382	49,209	164

and pardon the sin of thy seruants and of thy people Israel when thou hast taught them the good way wherin they may walke and giue raine vpon thy land which thou hast giuen vnto thy people for an inheritance 28 VVhen there shall be famine in the land when there shalbe pestilence blasting or mildeaw when there shalbe grashopper or caterpiller when their enemy shall besiege them in the cities of their land or any plague or any sicknesse 29 Then what prayer and supplication soeuer shall be made of any man or of all thy people Israel when euery one shal know his owne plague and his owne disease and shall stretch foorth his handes toward this house 30 Hear thou then in heauen thy dwelling place and be mercifull and giue euery man according vnto all his wayes as thou doest know his heart for thou onely knowest the hearts 〈◊〉 the children of men 31 That they may feare thee and walke in thy waies as long as they liue in the land which thou gauest vnto our fathers SAlomon a King both for wisedom Religion most renowmed hauing built finished the temple of Ierusalem cōsecrated it vnto God with his deuout and earnest prayers in the presence of all the people Wherein first hee commendeth and setteth out God his Omnipotencie his truth and mercie then he requesteth that God wold make good vnto him the promises made to his father Dauid and also make knowne his presence in that temple so holy so glorious and appointed for his woorship by hearing the deuoute prayers of the faithfull which in that place should call vpon him Particularly hee nameth sixe or seuen kindes of Calamities from which it might please the Almightie to deliuer that people crying vnto him in that place Of these the third is Drought to Iewry of all other Countries most pernicious so that his request is that if in this distresse they desired Raine it might be giuen them The fourth is Famine Dearth of Victuals Pestilence diuers and vncouth diseases spoyle of Corne siege of Cities or any other like kind of distresses in which hee desireth both God his attention to their praiers and deliuery from those plagues But leauing the particulars which are in this praier to be obserued our purpose is by Gods assistāce to intreat more largely of Dearth Famin a plague which for these many yeres not the wicked onely for their punishment but the godly also haue for their trial felt being alike greeuous and burthensome to all sorts and it is feared least in this so great scarcitie of all things in this age so giuen ouer both to couetousnesse and riot that the price of victualls will yet arise and encrease vnlesse our earnest repentance preuent God his wrathe Our heauenlie Father vouchsafe to deale with vs not after our desertes but according to his vnmeasurable mercie But that yee may vnderstand mee in this whole discourse more fully and plainlie 1. I will shew from whence commeth this plague of Dearth Famine namely from God his iudgement 2 How dreadfull a plague it is 3 Why God doth chastise the world with this scourge 4 How rich and poore should behaue themselues in this time of Famine both at home and abroad Lastly howe God promiseth his chosen not only to preserue them in it but also to turne it from them In the words of Dearth and Famine ther is found but very small differēce Dearth is that when all those thinges which belong to the life of man for example meate drinke apparell lodging and other thinges are rated at a high price Famine is when all these before named are not to bee got for money though there bee store of money Indeede this distinction riche men finde but the poore and needie feele no difference betweene Dearth and Famine For they in the greatest plentie of victualls wanting money are forced to starue and to pine with hunger There are two sorts of Famin or Dearth vniuersal when in al countries or most there is scarcitie of corn Particular when as any one village city or country is punished that way Now as all other calamities are sent from God so this of Dearth Famin. For God in his lawe expresly threatneth his people with this plague for disobedience to his word Leuit. 26. he speaketh in this sort verse 14. If ye will not obey nor doo my commaundements but despise my lawes verse 16. you shall sowe your seede in vaine Verse 19. I will make my heauen yron your earth brasse Verse 26. I will breake the staffe of your bread thē ten women shal bake your bread in one ouen they shall deliuer your bred again by waight ye shal not be satisfied Deu. 28. He is more large in this kind Verse 15. If you wil not heare the voyce of the Lord your God to keepe and doo all his commandements all these curses shall surprise and ouertake thee Cursed shalt thou be in the Citie and cursed in the field cursed shall thy barne be and thy store cursed shall be the fruit of thy land the increase of thy kine and the flockes of thy sheepe vers 33. The fruit of thy land and al thy labors shall a people which thou knowest not eate verse 38. Thou shalt carrie out much seede into the field and shalt gather but little in for the Grashoppers shall destroy it Thou shalt plant a Vineyard and dresse it but shalt neither drinke of the wine nor gather the Grapes for the wormes shall eate it Who so readeth the writings of the Prophets shall meet with manie testimonies some of them in their place we will repeate wherby God threatneth his people that vnlesse they repent hee will withdraw their wine oile fruits of trees fish flesh and other thinges which belong to the sustentation of mans life Amos 4.6 Saith the Lord I haue giuen vnto you cleannesse of teethe in all your Cities and scarcenesse of bread in all your places yet haue you not returned vnto me sayth the Lord. I haue smittē you with blasting and mildew haue caused it to raine vpon one Citie and not vpon another c. Which scripture is an euident demōstration that God sendeth the scarcitie of all things necessarie for mans life and that he openeth and shutteth the clouds at his pleasure And if God should not send it his seruaunts the Prophets could not by his instinct set downe the time so exactly as in both the Testaments they doe when it should come howe long it shoulde last when it should cease and other thinges of lesse account then these which the wisdome of man can of it selfe neither foresee nor conceiue Ioseph Gen. 41.25 by expounding Pharaos dreame of the seuen fat and leane kine and of the seuen full and emptie eares foreshewed from God seuen plentifull and so manie barren yeares Elizeus prophesied of the like number yeares of famine 2. Reg. 8. In the new Testament Agabus the Prophet by