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A01346	A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1626 (1626)	STC 11467; ESTC S102824	32,124	70

obey him Not a seruant here below that will endure his Masters disgrace ais aio negas nego saith hee in the Comedy Their Masters word goes still for a lawe and hee will be more iealous of his Masters honour then his owne peace shall earthly seruants be so obseruant of their earthly Masters from whom time may release them or distance of place secure them and shall we dare to neglect our obeisance against him against whom there is no priuiledge No place nor any time can exempt vs from his Dominion The vnprofitable seruant that gaue his Master his owne Talent yet was condemned because hee did not increase it where shall they then appeare that doe not giue him what of right belongs to him When the Pharisees tempted Christ by asking him whether they should giue tribute to Caesar or no he called for a penny and seeing Cesars image and superscription vpon it iudged it his giue saith he to Cesar the things which are Cesars and to God the things which are Gods Honour and glory and praise is that which of due belongs to him and that which all the host of Heauen Angells and Saints daily sing vnto him Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heauen and Earth are full of thy glory the glorious company of Prophets praise thee the noble army of Martyrs praise thee The Holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee In the Angels song there went gloria in Excelsis before Pax in terris no peace on earth if no glory to Heauen and yeeld but that Peace shall be within our Walls plenteousnes within our dwellings Would yee yet know a farther reason wherfore yee should praise him my Text tels you For his goodnesse c. Meruailous are thy workes saith Dauid in Wisdome hast tho● made them all the earth is full of thy goodnesse so is the broad Sea also not the least creature in the Ayre or the Earth or the Water but if we rightly consider it is fearefully and wonderfully made the least part or member of them is more then the weake and shallow reach of Man is able either duly to commend or to comprehend rightly It is a true position in morality nimia familiaritas parit contemptum it is also true in Diuinity Perseuerantia consuetudi●is amisit admirationem quàm multa vsitata caleantur qua considerata stupent saith Augustine how many things doth custome make vile which consideration would make admirable Did wee but with Dauid truly consider the creation of our selues that wee are wonderfully made and that our bones were not hidden from him though they were formed in a secret place it would enforce vs to giue acclamation to the workmanship of our Maker as that sweet singer of Israell there did Meruailous are thy workes O Lord and that my soule knowes right-well Then haue the wondrous workes of God their true end when we take them for wonders when we tremble at the sight of them and feare that mighty Lord that hath wrought them God doth not miracula propter miracula but for our sakes not caring so much himselfe to doe them as that wee consider and beare them away The gratious God saith Dauid hath made his wonderfull workes to bee had in remembrance O Lord how gratious art thou thy workes are very deepe an vnwise man knoweth it not and a foole doth not vnderstand it So that all his Goodnesse is extended to vs and his Meruailous workes are done for vs which are the Children of men The last part of all O that Men c. Tantus ille tantilli nos this addes to our engagement That he should so consider vs and thinke vpon vs that neuer thinke vpon him that he should regard vs that neuer minde him for vs that haue deserued so little at his hands nay rather so much so much misery so many plagues being non prius nati quàm damnati that are not onely strangers but enemies and that the most despightfully conditioned that can bee vessells of wrath and sonnes of perdition that he should doe all these things for vs how are we honoured that he will vouchsafe to be honoured by vs so vile so vnworthy as we are All that we can doe is a thousand times lesse then a drop of raine to the Ocea● he is infinite of himselfe and nothing can bee added to him it is onely our happinesse our welfare and aduantage The wonder which Dauid here instanceth in is the recouery of vs out of sicknesse Wee little consider how daily and hourely wee stand beholding to God for our liues and healths when wee haue such enemies within the Elements wherof we are composed heate and cold moisture and drought which being brethren of one house as one called them but withall the Fathers and Founders of vs as it were of our natures if they but fall at variance within vs how will they rend and teare vs like wilde Boares how many haue beene buryed aliue in the graue of their earthly and melancholike Imaginations how many burnt in the flames of pestilent and hot diseases their bowels set on fire like an Ouen their blood dried vp their inwards withered and wasted with the violence thereof The vapours and fumes of their owne vitious stomacks like a contagious Ayre how many haue they poysoned and choaked vp and finally how many haue been glutted and ouercharged with water betweene their owne skinne and bones And therefore we must conclude and cry with the Prophet It is the wonderfull mercie of God that we are not consumed When a grape-gatherer comes will he not leaue some grapes if ought in the opening of this Scripture hath escaped me as my ignorance weaknes dare hope for no other it wil be your charity to impute it to multitude of other priuate businesse and breuitie of time in which as Agabus with the girdle of Paul I am confined these few sands are too little to expatiate my selfe in these many and various points which offer themselues to our consideration though not all of some yet somewhat I hope I haue spoken of all I would gladly conclude with some short application How many are there now in this City aliue that haue beene summoned as Hezekiah was to set their house in order for they thought no other but they must die that haue seene before them the greedy and inexorable Graue with open mouth ready to receiue them that friends and Phisitions haue all forsaken giuing them for dead yet haue escaped and are recouered and many there are also to whom God hath giuen continuance of health in this generall Deluge of infection when so many thousands haue fal●e round about vs To what shall we attribute this were we not in the same Ayre did wee not conuerse with the same men are not our bodies equally subiect to the like diseases was it not onely as our Sauiour saith that the workes of the Lord might be manifest who spake to

this Infection as sometime to the Sea hitherto shalt thou goe and no farther Diuide in one house betweene brother and brother in one bed betweene Husband and Wife in one Family betweene seruant and seruant These shalt thou absolutely take these thou shalt but touch their bodyes and spare their liues as he said to the Di●ell concerning Iob Thus long shalt thou raigne and no longer if euer we liue to forget this goodnesse this wondrous worke of God I will sooner wish we should forget to take our daily food how iustly should God forget vs when wee stand in the like need of mercy againe As the Emperour had his Boy that cryed euery morning to him Remember thou art but a man so let vs still haue something or other to put vs in minde of this great deliuerance Let euery man write it vpon the doores of his house as the Israelites in Aegipt sprinkled their posts with blood that if euer God should againe strike he againe may spare vs. I know saith God of Abraham that he will tell his children what great things I haue done Let it be our talke to our children that they that are yet vnborne may know though not by sight yet by hearesay what great things the Lord hath done for vs. Scipio Africanus the Elder hauing made the City of Rome exanguem morituram as himselfe called it ready to giue vp the ghost Lady of Affrik at length being banished into a base Country-Towne his will was that his Tombe should haue this Inscription I●grata Patria ne ossa quidem mea habes let not the God of Heauen complaine so of vs that we should haue no thought no memory of our great preseruations let him not bee exiled our thoughts and buried in obliuion but let some remnant and foot-print bee left to witnesse to the world that we haue beene deliuered Let him not haue cause to complaine as he sometime did Isa. 1. Heare O Heauens and hearken O Earth I haue brought vp and preserued children and they haue despised me Can a mother forget her child saith God no childe so deare to the mother as wee haue beene to him he hath tendred vs as the apple of his eye and preserued vs as the Signet vpon his right hand Oh then let vs obserue and respect him It is a good thing saith Dauid to praise the Lord and to sing vnto the name of the most High to declare his louing kindenesse in the morning and his truth in the night season It is good touching the act it selfe for it is better to blesse then to curse and to giue thankes then to giue out a voyce of grudging It is good because of the retribution 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 giue and thou shalt receiue and all that wee can giue to him is our thankes for can our goodnesse extend to him saith Dauid and cessat de cursus gratiarum vbi non fuerit recursus the course and descent of the graces of God ceaseth and the spring is dryed vp where there is not a recourse and tide of our thankfulnesse Wherefore let vs alwayes be thankfull to the Lord for it becommeth well the iust to bee thankfull Had I the power I would doe as Dauid did begin aboue and call the Heauens the Sunne and Moone and Starres to praise the Lord for this our deliuerance then would I descend to the Ayre and call all those winged Messengers of God all Birds and feathered Fowles to beare a part with vs then would I come to the Earth and haue Mountaines and all Hills fruitfull Trees and all Cedars Beasts and Cattell to ioyne with vs then would I goe downe to the Deepe and there summon all those Sea-citizens of those brinie Regions to come with vs and magnifie his great and glorious Name In a word I would conclude as Dauid doth Let euery thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Lord whose goodnesse is without quality whose greatnesse is without quantity infinite in both but all of vs that are the sonnes of men especially I would haue to learne the song of the blessed before hand that hereafter wee may bee able to sing it with more perfection Praise honour and glory bee vnto him that sits vpon the Throne and to the Lambe that Immaculate Lambe of God which once offered himselfe for vs and at last will assume vs to himselfe in that place where he ●its and Raignes for euer To the which place hee bring vs that onely bought vs and can saue vs IESVS CHRIST the Righteous Amen FINIS Heb. 13. 8. Iudg. 1. 6. * Lue. 5. last a Gen. 18. b Prou. 27. 12 a 1 Cor. 13. 11. b Psal. 8. 2. c 2 Kings 7. vers●● d Reuel 1. 9. e Virg Ecclog ● f Zach. 4. 10. g Act 12 h ler. 37 Verse 17. i ● Reg. 20. k Pro. 25. ●1 l Ciprian m Horace n Act. 2. 37. * Psal. 118. 23 a 〈◊〉 b Psa. 101. * Psal. 1 18. 1● q Sue● in vita Nero●is r Ez●k 18. 32. f Deu● 3● 15 t 2 Sam. 11. 29. u Luc. 15. 18. * 1 Cor. 10. 11. x Eccles. 1. 9. y Num. 5. 2. z Isa. 13. 21. * Ibid. ver 1● a 2 Sam. 24. b Ez●k 16. 3. c Isa. 5. 18. d Isa. 1. 5. e Ps●l 14. 1. f 1 King 8. 46 g Pro● 24. 16. h Luc. 6. 45. i Prou. 18. 21. k Num. 6. 13. l Exod. 32. l ● King 11. m Iosh. 9. n Col. 3. 5. o Phil. 3. 19. p Ier. 11. 18. q Luc. 16. 19. r Iob 1. s ● Sa● 24. 17. t Mark 8. 24. u M●●k 16. 43. * Luc. 15. x Rom. 5. 22. y Num. 11. z 1 Sam. 25. a Luc. 16. 19. * 1 Tim. 2. 10 a Iob 31. 24. b Mat. 4. 9. c 1 Sam. 2. d 1 Tim. 5. 6. c Iohn 20. 27. f Exod. 4. 16. g Isa. 1. h 1 Cor. 6. 19. i Ier. 5. ● k Prou. 9. 17. * Prou. 20. 14. I 1 King 21. m 1 Ioh. 2. 24. n Iosh. 7. 21. o Exod. 5. 2. p ● King 19. q Hab. 2. 6. r 1 Sam. 25. s 2 Sam. 16. 23. * 1 Kings 4. 33. z Gen. 2. 10. t 1 Cor. 1. 20. u Psal. 2. * 1 King 22. 31. a 2 King 4. 19 b Ier. 4. 19. c 1 Kings 15. ●23 d 2 Kings 20. 7. Ecelesiast 38. 15. e Luc. 21. 34. f 2 Cor. 〈◊〉 30 g Ier. 23. 10. 2 Sam 24. x Psal. 91. 5. h Exod. 8. 19. l Prou. 26. 3. 2 Chron. 33. 12. Dan. 4. m Hos. 6. 1. 2. n 2 Sam. ●0 16. o Ion. 3. p 1 Sam. 2. 9. q 2 Kings 6. 13. r Ibid 〈◊〉 27. s 1 King 15. t Eccle. 38. 1. u 2 King 20. * 2 King 5. x 1 Cor. 3. 6. Chap. 38. 9. a Iam. 5. 15. b 1 King 20. 31. c Luc. 11. 17. d 1 Kings 18. 28. e Mat. 4. f Dan. 3. 19. g Exod. 10. 16 h Ioh 1. i Num. 21. 9. k 2 Sam. 24. l 1 Tim. 5. 6. m Mat. 9. 14. n Psal. 4● ● o 1 Kings 21. p Luc. 13. 3. z 2 Sam. 18. q Luc. 12. 18. r 1 Kings 2● a 2 Sam. 12. b 2 Phisi● c Iosh. 7. 19. d 〈…〉 e Heb. 13. 15. f 1 Sam. 15. 22. g Gen. 4. h Isa. 29. 13. i 1 Sam. 2. 30. k Luc. 17. 17. l Ioh. 1. 18. * 〈◊〉 m Mat. 25. n Mat. 22. 21. o Luc. 2. 14. p Exod. 12. q Gen. 18. 19. Psal. 92. Psal. last r Reu. 5. 13.

sends him for hee refresheth the soule of his Master saith Salomon Prou. 25. 13. Here is a faithfull Mercury a winged Messenger that in so short a space hath climbed vp into the highest Heauen and gotten Audience What manicles to the hands of Gods iustice are the cryes of poore afflicted penitent men that will not suffer him to proceed in his intended vengeance Nay rather then they shall faile God himselfe shall seeme to bee mutable who though he threatneth Niniueh without any hope of escape yet vpon those prayers is intreated to spare them Or rather how gratious is our God and willing to be thus intreated who vpon the first call answers and performes hee in the Gospell when his friend did but knock at an vnseasonable time answered the doores were lockt the children were in bed so did not satisfie his desire but for a loafe of bread But no such thing here no time in all our life is vnseasonable the first the second the third 〈◊〉 hee heares and opens Bis qui citò the bene●●● is double that is speedily performed The Priests of Baal prayed from morning till noone and could get no answer but the first word of Elias fetcht fire And indeed how should such suppliants praying to such deities be heard for what taste is there in the white of an Egge or how can Baal or any other liuing or dead creature heare or helpe when they cannot helpe themselues It is onely the infinite Maker and creator of the eare that can heare all men at all places at all times altogether No Saint no Angell no forged or feigned god-head can doe that but onely the God of all power and might the mightie God of Heauen and Earth Vna eademque manus vulnus opemque tulit He that bruised can againe binde vp hee that made the wound can and onely did cure it now the means which he vsed was his Word Hee sent his Word and healed them c. This is that Delphian Sword or vniuersall Instrument which hee vsed in framing the World with all that therein is Hee said let there bee Light and there was light Let there be Firmament let the Waters be gathered into one place and let the drie Land appeare and all was fulfilled and Hee still vpholdeth all things by the Word of his power Heb. 1. What is his Word now but the reall and effectuall performance of what hee intends he but speakes and all things in Heauen and Earth and the great Deepes presently are obedient I see now as man liues not by bread alone but by euery word which proceedes out of the mouth of God so hee is not cured by Phisicke alone but by the onely blessing of the omnipotent Word of God No meanes can preuaile without that and that with without besides yea against all meanes can easily bee preualent No God can deliuer as the God of the three Children can as the King confessed whose Dicere is his Facere His onely Word is able to bring mighty things to passe Whatsoeuer seeme impossibilities to man are easily brought to passe by him that can doe all things The Sea will bee calme Diseases vanish all the Creatures are morigerous yea Diuels themselues are obedient to this Word onely Man dares to rebell against it but hee that will not bend at the Word of his command shall bee broken at the Word of his Power They that allegorise this part of Scripture as Hugo Cardinalis and Lorinus make this Disease a farther proceeding in the wayes of impiety a sitting downe in the chayre of vngodlinesse a deliuering vp from one sinne to another and are at last growne to that height that they care no more for their soule then if they had none the Word and Sacraments the onely food of their soules they neglect and despise it is as Wormewood to their taste or smoake to their eyes they so wholly deuote themselues to sensuality as it might seeme to grieue them non quadrupedes esse natos that they might freely take their pleasure and delight yet at last God hath a hooke to drawe these in a meanes to enlighten and preserue them Though they bee dead in sinnes and trespasses and with Lazarus buried in the graue yet if the Lord doe but say Exi foras come forth of that Mare mortuum wherein like Ionas in the belly of the Whale or rather of Hell as himselfe called it they are entombed their Fetters fall presently from them as they did from Peter in the Prison they come to acknowledge themselues Fooles wicked and rebellious to say with Pharaoh I haue sinned against the Lord. This is wrought by the power of his Word that cibus inconsumptibilis as Ciprian called it that immortall Word which St Iohn saith was in the beginning the onely begotten Sonne of God our blessed Sauiour Hee like the Brasen Serpent cures all foule-diseased that looke vp to him I vrge not this Interpretation to any I know one sinne is oftentimes the punishment of another as when Israel had prouoked God hee stirred vp Dauid to number the people and it is the fearefullest judgement that can bee to heape more coales vpon the head of the delinquent by giuing them ouer to their owne hearts lust I know also that there is a death of the soule as of the body Etiam viuens mortua est saith St. Paul of a woman liuing in pleasure there is a death spirituall as temporall out of which God is able to deliuer Nay his Word that is the second Person in Trinitie came for that end into the world was made flesh and tooke our nature vpon him not for the righteous but to call sinners to repentance yea though they were twice dead as hee was called twice a Murtherer Semel consilio iterum spectaculo Once in the act and a second time in the glorying in it Yet there is a blessing in this dead Elme though he be consumed as a Sheepe in the mouth of a Lyon to a legge or an eare or as a blocke in the fire to a stumpe yet the least breath of his mouth is able to reuiue him But the context me thinkes giues no great warrant for this exposition hauing both before and after spoken of temporall dangers and deliuerances from them I see no reason why it should be thought that herein onely he speakes of spirituall danger and a spirituall deliuerance I haue hitherto shewed you this disease with the cause and the effect of it The Phisition also I haue brought you acquainted with together with his Phisicke that if euer there bee the like need againe wee may with boldnesse approach the same throne of grace and obtaine the like mercy Probatum est may be subscribed to this Recipe so many sighes mingled with teares and a quantity of faith enfused taken in poculo charitatis and the blessing of our Doctor is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for all diseases a ●ure Antidote