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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10078	Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall. As it vvas follovved in a sermon preached in Christs-church in London, the 22. of Ianuarie. 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique thanksgiuing, enioyned by his maiesties proclamation. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1626 (1626)	STC 20332; ESTC S114330	24,161	47

LONDONS REMEMBRANCER FOR THE STAYING OF THE CONTAGIOVS SICKNES OF THE PLAGVE By Dauids Memoriall AS IT VVAS FOLLOWED in a Sermon Preached in Christs-Church in LONDON the 22. of Ianuarie 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique Thanksgiuing enioyned by his Maiesties Proclamation By SAMSON PRICE Doctor of Diuinitie one of his Majesties Chapleins in Ordinarie PSAL. 63.6.7 When I remember thee vpon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches because thou hast beene my helpe therefore in the shadowe of thy wings will I reioyce AT LONDON Printed by Edward All-de for Thomas Harper 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS COVENTRYE KNIGHT LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND Right Honourable IT is the great worke of God to reclaime from their offences those whom he loueth by corrections To this end as he bestoweth fauours vpon some in anger as he did Quailes vpon the Israelites so striketh he others in mercie that they may be zealous and repent The late Pestilence amongst vs of this Citie and the other infected parts of the Kingdome bringing wonderfull Plagues and sore sicknesses came rushing with such violence because wee did not serue the Lord our God with ioyfulnes hauing aboundance of all things and because we did not feare this glorious name The Lord yet mercie shewed it selfe stronger then Iudgement and vpon our weake and vnworthy humiliation the destroying Angel hath in a great measure stayed his hand Beautie therefore being giuen vnto vs for ashes the oyle of Ioy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heauines The Lord is to be praised To this end hath our Royall zealous annointed Soueraigne sent forth a solemne command This to fasten as a memorandum in the eares and hearts of those committed to my poore charge I endeauoured By King Dauids memoriall of what God had done for him A subiect fit for an Angell from heauen to comment vpon A THANKSGIVING All the workes of the Lord praise him Angels Heauens Sunne Moone Starres showers dewe winde Winter Summer Wels Whales Fowles Beasts All holy and humble men of heart desire to remember the Lord. This is here pressed wherein my only ayme was to speake what was plaine profitable necessarie to the glory of God and good of the people This Mite I now offer to the Treasurie Talents I haue none Knowing that in a willing minde it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that hee hath not 2. Cor. 8.2 Whatsoeuer it is I am emboldened by your late Noble encouragements to present it to your Honours acceptation protection perusall It is the ioy of many that God hath giuen you a large iust and faithfull heart a desire rather to be an vmpire of equity then a Decreer of seuerity and as God hath exalted you so you remember by your resolute yet meeke carriage that God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty he iudgeth among the Gods I shall still rest a continuall Peticioner to the throne of grace that in these slipperie times all the foundations of the earth being out of course you may be kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation New Rents 1626. Febru 10. Your Honours in all dutie to be commanded SAMSON PRICE Lord Iesus begin and end LONDONS REMEMBRANCER BY DAVIDS MEMORIALL PSAL. 42.4 When I remember these things I powre out my soule in me IT was the confident profession of royall Dauid when some did striue with him fight against him and persecute him Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all The whole Psalme was composed when he came to Achimelech the Priest crauing bread and armes A Psalme written saith Cassiodor for the times of Christians A Psalme which Athanasius perswaded Marcellinus to sing vpon any deliuerance As Dauids afflictions were great so were his deliuerances consider him a caula ad aulam from the Sheep-coate to the Scepter being sent to follow the Ewes great with young either by his Fathers neglect or his brothers enuious conspiracie and plotting against him the day consuming him with heat and the night with frosts in danger of Lyons Beares his Father in law vnkinde Michal his wife froward hauing breaches in his family by his Thamar Ammon Absalon bruises by the pestilence brunts by warres which made him water his couch with his teares and would haue made him mad indeede as he but feigned when he was before Achish had not the Lord deliuered him But his soule truly wayted vpon God because his saluation came from him A text vrged by St. Austin against the Donatists prescribed by Basil as an Antidote to euery Christian against corrupt passions that the soule be not made a slaue to lewd affections Euery creature is to obey the Creator and may be enforced but a voluntary subiection is expected of the reasonable soule of man that our will follow Gods will that we desire nothing contrary to his will that wee encline our hearts to his pleasure For we are the creatures hee is the Creator we but clay he the Potter wee captiues hee the commander wee seruants he the Master we Schollers he the Tutour and none but the sonne of Belial that cannot endure the Lord will seeke to breake his bands the life of Christ was a life of subiection to his Parents to Magistrates to the Law to the Baptisme of Iohn yea hee who was Lord and Master washed his Apostles feete not onely because the diuell had supplanted Adam in his feete or because they were to be his feete to carrie him through the world and as beautifull feete vpon the mountaines to publish peace and bring good tydings of good publishing saluation but to giue them an example of humility that seeing he washed their feete they ought also to wash one anothers feete Hee who was God and man was subiect that man might learne to submit himselfe wholy to God Anima is quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a breathing and the tongue of the soule is the Zeale of deuotion our deuout Kingly Prophet in all humble submission cried out Vnto thee O Lord doe I lift vp my soule Happy is hee onely who can say it with the heart of Dauid sinne doth not ouer-burthen him worldly delight draweth him not backe from the seruice of God pleasure boweth him not downe couetousnesse doth not make him stoope opulencie doth not puffe him vp ambition doth not carrie him away His soule made her boast in the Lord because confirmed strengthened and able to endure so wonderfully from his power by which he was whatsoeuer he was He prayed that God would say vnto his soule I am thy saluation For Gods word is his Act and his dixit a fiat His soule followed hard after God because his right hand did vphold him Hee followed not the allurements of the world which by vices draw men from

the maine Ocean of all vncleannes and filthinesse of fornication Beware of contemners of the Gospell called dogges by Christ Giue not that which is holy vnto the dogges such as will fully resist the truth and barke at the Ministers of the word Beware of Schismatickes who though they be not altogether so dangerous as the Bloud-hounds of Babylon yet are they very troublesome tearing the Church and running themselues drawing others from the Church and so from Christ Neuer goe abroad but with the Pomander of faith full of the sweet spices of good workes God hath beene mindfull of vs and can encrease you more and more you and your children The dead praise him not but the liuing must blesse him O therefore that men would praise the Lord for his goodnes and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men An Eucharistical song euer to be repeated for any blessing as Bernard presseth it speaking of the custodie of Angels O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse for Dauid repeates it v. 15.21.31 Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people Not because as Hugo Princes forget to exalt God but magnifie themselues but that all must exalt him high and lowe rich and poore olde and young Princes and Subiects And exalt him with a song in the Churches Amongst other songs take that especially O giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer O giue thankes vnto the God of Gods for his mercie endureth for euer O giue thankes to the Lord of Lords for his mercie endureth for euer A Psalme which being sung at the consecration of the Temple the fire came downe from heauen and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the house A Psalme which Iehoshaphat appointed singers among the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem in the wildernesse of TEKOA to sing and then the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammor Moab and mount Seir which were come against Iudah and they were smitten Let vs not vncharitably censure those that are gone downe into silence by the arrowe of the Plague Learned Gesner dyed of the Plague a little before his death calling for some of his papers in his Studie giuing a charge that the world should not be depriued of them He that wrote of Stones Gardens Libraries Measures foure footed beasts Birds Fishes of Hearbs Chirurgerie Measures Medicines Francis Iunius the glory of Leyden the oracle of Textuall and Schoole Diuinitie rich in Languages subtill in distinguishing in argument inuincible dyed of the Plague A fixed starre in the firmament of that Church a hammer of Heretiques Champion of the truth the honour of the Schooles I could name some of your owne religious Diuines in this Citie who dyed of the Plague for whom the Congregation may mourne and would God the losse could be as easily supplyed as lamented Resolute Camillus dyed of the Plague hauing saued his vnthankfull Country from the Veians and after from the Galles Iob had the Plague when he had vl●us ex caliditate that Botch which proceeded from that burning heate in his body and as it is probable beneath the reines betwixt the thigh and the belly or bowels which is the flanke or graine into which place the confluence of vitious corrupt and malignant humours commonly betake themselues as being one of Natures Emunctories and a part prepared for euacuation of Impostumation by reason of the tendernesse and rarity of the skinne and other passages All his body ouer was almost a plague Let vs aboue all sores fl●● the plague of sinne It is in vaine to purge our houses cleanse our streetes perfume our apparell vnlesse we beware of the Infections of the soule We haue liued to meete againe our friends O let vs not by our corruptions make them Gods enemies Wee haue vowed to bee new creatures in Christ Iesus when wee were vnder the rod Remember that Aegrotus surgit sed pia vota valent Take this Antidote against poyson IVSTICE will strike vs with greater Plagues being deliuered from the former if we mocke it with broken deuotion O let our thankfull hearts testifie our contrite spirits Let the house of Iudah the Royall COVRT remember this deliuerance and acknowledge that God can breake those who will not bowe Let them banish those Moaths and Mice of Flatterers Epicures doubling professours bad counsailours who clime high to fall foule and let not that olde writing vnder the picture of Ignatius Loyola be forgotten Cauete vobis Principes Be wise O yee Princes Let Moses and Aaron Prince and Priest remember that the Lord is their helpe and guide and as the Priest hath beene zealous to pray Spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most pretious bloud from Plague and Pestilence so now let them sing Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will toward man Let Samuel among the Prophets and the young children of the Prophets remember this deliuerance Their buildings haue beene stately Reuenues large Students many but they haue beene scared feared driuen thence yet now the voyce of ioy and health is in their dwellings OXFORD hath bin visited and CAMBRIDGE threatned Let vs of this Citie especially remember this Great deliuerances should haue great remembrances Now againe your Ierusalem is as a Citie compact againe Now are the Tribes come vp againe Now againe here are the Thrones of Iudgement the Thrones of the house of Dauid Vpon which Lord let there be euer men of courage fearing thee dealing truly hating couetousnesse that they may appeare confidently before the great Parliament of heauen Let vs all take vp that of our Prophet Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard the voyce of our s●pplications The Lord is our strength and our shield our heart trusted in him and we are helped therefore our heart greatly reioyceth and with our song will wee praise him The Lord is our strength and the sauing strength of his Annointed Saue thy people and blesse thine inheritance feede them lift them vp for euer that so being comforted after our affliction raised vp after our detection and cloathed with immortality after this mortality wee may hereafter with the Angels round about his Throne worship him saying Amen Blessing and glorie and wisedome and thankesgiuing and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euer and euer AMEN FINIS Re 3.19 De. 28.27.58.59 2. Sa. 24 16. Js 61.3 Amb. de Theodosio Aequitatis Iudex nonpaenae arbiter Ps 82.1 Ps 34.19 1 Sa. 21.1 Euseb Bas Ps 78.71 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods hand shooke his house from the foundation Bas 1. Sa. 21.13 Ps 62.1 3. Co. lit Potil c. 18. Bas hom Ie. 2.20 Am. l. 1. de Sac. c. 1. Gre. 18. Mor. c. 19. Js 52.7 Jo. 13.14 Bar. se 45.