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judgement_n	according_a	great_a	lord_n	1,960	5	3.5757	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

after it I see Shepherds smitten with feare sheep scattered hearers fickle for want of due ordering Church-discipline rejected Sacraments neglected the bread of life vilified your selves in counsel and example despised I am benefited by your prayers and pains therefore will I spare reproof as not worthy to do it But yet observe I pray you especially the most of you that are fled how your people grow dissolute their natures insolent their eares itching their appetite greedy their heads distracted their hearts unsetled I accuse no Father of the Church for they have no particular place of residency the care of all the Churches lies on them and they deputed you over particular Congregations for your own good and the peoples also that the Church may want no tendance Yet I say not that you have been the fountain of all this For you my lay-children for the most part cannot complain for want of teaching since you have followed so little and plaid the wantons with your bread And if their sins would spur away as fast as they I should complain of no other infirmity But Quicquid delirunt isti plectuntur Achivi whatsoever you have done I find the scourge of it and with my poor inhabitants may say with David in the person of my Saviour The rebukes of those that offended thee fall upon me Yet I excuse not my self nor my residents as Innocent but would not have my self only censured because I bear the punishment I have not truly bewailed my Rebellions against my late Soveraign sacrilegiously robbing my Churches of their Orthodox Ministry and turning the deaf ear to those sweet Singers of Israel and followed the bleating of Jeroboams Calves Thus having reduced my self to the Proverb Like People like Priest and no sooner did those sons of Corah blow the Trumpet of sedition but presently my multitudes and strength which should have been a Safeguard to the King and Kingdom I did rebelliously sacrifice to the ruine of both And the better to make Religion and Reformation a pretence for my Rebellion I imposed Oaths and Covenants on my children contrary to the Lawes of God the Command of my King the Law of the Land and mine own Conscience I no sooner had brought to passe that wicked device which I had plotted against the Church my King the Kingdom and mine own soul but presently contrary to those Oaths and Protestations wickedly betrayed the best of Kings into the treacherous hands of the worst of men And though with Judas I repented my self and would have no hand in his death yet when it was done I was not truly humbled for so grievous a sin but still with Ahab went on to do wickedly And since though God hath by a marvellous hand of Providence restored our Gracious Sovereign whom God long preserve unto the Throne of his Father and my Judges being as at the first and my Counsellors as at the beginning the Church established in its primitive Purity by enjoying its Liturgie teaching my children as well how as to whom to pray or if they would be so pious as to pray by the spirit our Holy Mother the Church hath sufficiently provided they may pray with understanding also yet notwithstanding I have remained as schismatical as ever being as unthankful under Mercies as I was incorrigible under Judgments I know O Lord thy Judgements are just and that thou in faithfulness hath afflicted me Have mercy upon me O Lord after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy tender mercies do away my offences for I acknowledge my wickedness and am sorry for my sin Oh turn to me again thou Lord of Hosts shew us the light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole I know also that I have the poor with me a rude people whom I cannot rule whose necessitie hath hardened them and their defection driven them to Commit sinne with greediness And as Cooks frame all things to the palate and omit things profitable so do they saith Philo omit good and turn all things to their present pleasure But I have a generation here likewise who make Conscience of sinning whose teares are daily poured forth and prayers sent out and ejaculations shot up for my restoring who I do hope shall be heard in that they pray for and I shall be cured and they shall be blessed In the mean time my sorrows are multiplied not more by sicknesse then by scandalls of weak Phantasies and by the comfortlesse desertion and decession of my children My scourge inflicted on me is the Plague A disease fearful enough yet not half so fearful as my sins through which I have run boldly enough and in which the Countrey-people hath taken part with me A Disease which David chose before Famine or the Sword Let me fall into the hand of God and not of man A disease which is some signe of Gods favour For he hath not suffered Famine to blast our Fields with her barren breath neither hath he said Sword cut through this Land But like a Father he hath taken us in hand himself as David calls it the Chastisement of his own hand Let me fall into the Hand of God A disease that was the last blow that God took at Egypt and the common scourge of Israel and usually set on by an Angel whose stroak moved the mud of mans nature to his own ruine which else lyeth still and setled and destroyes man some other way in time I confesse that I have heard related that some of my Sister Cities have been infected by strange accidents but God is my Master and not Fortune my Mistriss some say the Infection hapneth by constellatious ominoes aspects evil conjunctions unseasonable weathers but these must extend themselves then beyond a City and her Suburbs because in these occurrents the aire is rainted and then not kept within the compasse of one Cities Hemisphere Some have been they say infected by meer stinks they are noisom indeed but have no more relation to kill this way by a Plague then by other wayes and diseases which they may breed and bring to passe Bad fumes are discommodities that I am much troubled withal by reason of my noisom children and idle servants but yet my breath is not so obnoxious as is reported for if it were five would die to one that doth die it being the common breath by which all with me doth live and being there is two weak bodies for one strong counting women and children And beside if my breath were infectious then would those creatures whose nature have affinity with man as Swine Cocks and Hens receive such infections in the streets as would forthwith slay them though they were not kept up in Plagued houses Therefore do not scandal me and adde affliction to the afflicted but consider God is my Rock and his Word is my Pillar and the ground of Truth I know that God may use outward means to infect and suffocate But least we should lean too much