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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

LAMENTATIO CIVITATIS OR Londons Complaint Against her CHILDREN in the COUNTREY SHEWING Her Weaknesse Poverty and Desolatenesse Blaming their Unkindnesse Inhospitality and Diffidence towards her Discovering to them her Consolations in God in this her Trouble Chiding their want of Knowledg of God and his Chastisements With Advice unto them Taken from her own Mouth AS ALSO A Brief Account how many died in the Years 1529 1603 1625 1630 1636 1637 1638 1646 1647 1648. with this present Year 1665. Likewise several Preservatives against the Infection JOB 19.21 Have pity upon me have pity upon me Oh ye my friends for the Hand of God hath touched me JOB 33.27 28 He looked upon men and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profited me not He will deliver his soul from going into the pit and his life shall see light LONDON Printed for Robert Rogers at the Duke of Monmouths Head in the Park Southwark and are to be sold at his House or at Tho. Glasbrook at Brooks-wharf 1665. TO THE HONOURABLE REVEREND and WORSHIPFUL Magistrates Ministers and Physicians And all other my Christian Children who out of a good Conscience toward God stayeth by me in this my grievous Affliction Greeting SIn is the Cause of all Judgement and the Bewailing of our own and other mens sins is the only way to have judgement removed in Mercy Misery is the Touchstone whereby true friendship is tried God hath tried you and I have found you such as I may trust Therefore all the blessings that I can conceive in my heart both of this world and that which is to com be upon you for comforting my drooping spirit and strengthning me now in my weaknesse And now let me entreat your Patronage of this Complaint to defend me from the Calumnies of my Children who have deserted me in the time of my Calamity though they that are fled have not left me out of obstinacy but fearfulnesse and want of knowledge This your Patronage I intreat for Edification desiring with the Apostle all things may be done with meeknesse And the Blessing of God the Father the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you all Your Nursing Mother LONDON-CITY LAMENTATIO CIVITATIS SHall we receive good at the Hand of God and shall we not receive evil Naked came I out of my Mothers Womb and naked must I return thither the Lord gives and the Lord taketh away and blessed be the Name of the Lord. As Physicians are distracted with the many infirmities of an old patched up Patient which disease in him to take away first that the other make not head against his life so I now poor distressed rejected diseased London once the Phoenix now the Owle once the Paragon of beauty now a Pattern of deformity lately the crown and pride of great Britain now a skar-crow and scorn know not which way to turn me first My God is angred my houshold plagued my hopeful children dispersed Which last grieves me not least that I should nourish children who should in time of need so forsake me I have sollicited God in supplication I have comforted my family with my best adjutation but my sorrows increase and my friends decrease which makes me send out in the bitternesse of my soule this Exclamation against them this Declaration to them Ah well said S. Chrysostome Quod est in Arboribus humor hoc est in hominibus Amor The love in men is like juice in trees which humor seldom revisits the root being once sent forth but shoots forward into sprigs leaves or fruit so childrens love seldom reflects on the Parents but boundeth forward to some other object And so deal you my children with me whose ungratefulness I much pity though it may be you regard it not But howsoever I must discharge my Conscience in relating your faults that so if in your absence some of my lewd sons prey on your goods you may not blame me for not informing you nor when you return if you taste of correction you may not take hainously my reforming you And least you think I speak without cause consider my weaknesse poverty small company And that you are not guiltless neither of these miseries nor undeserving my expostulations I pray consider your unkindness to God and me inhospitality to the needie diffidence in Gods providence And yet that I am not comfortless mark my confidence nor loveless to you observ my counsel in that I wish you to reclaim repent beleeve And lastly Commend me I can scarce say kindely to those untaught Countrey people whom neither fear of God nor knowledge of his Word nor example of my Civil Government nor kinde entertainment nor leasing nor lending nor trading nor my large contributing to their Briefs can win to the kinde welcoming of my children dispersed through their infirmity nor to the burying of them without inhumanity And let those know my displeasure who care not though I starve for want of food who keep back the people as much as in them lieth from bringing sustenance hither for feare the Plague should come thither in a pair of Panniers But their fault I will put last as the least in comparison of yours who fright them with your amazednesse But you should have had more hope in God more trust in his Word more love to me more respect to your selves then thus to expose your bodies dead or alive in this case to the rude courtesie of the ignorantly fearful I had almost said faithless Countrey And all this comes to pass because I am touched with infirmity which what it is you shall know my infirmitie is naturall spiritual My spiritual infirmitie is sin in general but in particular security in prosperity unsensiblenesse of visitation murmuring in want abusing plenty Which you my Children have not been behind-hand to augment neither are you guiltless Have not you infected my Air with swearing my Taverns which I erected to comfort the sorrowful with spewing up your surquedny My shops with cheating my Churches with hypocrisie my Suburbs with bandry What sin am I tainted withal of which you have not the tincture What paint have I put on of which you have not the Visor You have grinded my poor you have eat my people like bread you have sold them for old shooes you have oppressed by might and Bankruptism you have left debts unpaid you have opened a way for unconscionable men to undo others by your departing and left me last of all to desolation as if you were none of those who had augmented my sin and therefore need not partake of my punishment These Mischiefs you have left behind you though your bodies are absent and I feel the smart of yours and mine own folly There are some of you who are absent whose nakednesse with Constantine I had rather cover with my cloak then discover But I see some wilfully let go the Plough and never look

heart And then thou shalt smell it and others too and God be satisfied and thy house well ayred and then thou mayst returne with safety and comfort And if God doe touch thee with the Plague thou shalt have the Pledge of his love if with the Pest and not mortally yet he hath the Test and reproof of thee and thou the proofe and tryal of him If he give thee the blow of death and the word of life also he doth thee no hurt When thou commest come with this consideration for it is mine and I have found it effectual Neither would I be rid of his word of life revealed in the preaching of the Gospel in my Temples to be eased of his hand of sicknesse on my houses Come therefore to your old habitations not to your old sinnes and as God hath swept my house to desire him to garnish it with vertue and furnish it with graces Least worse things happen to me and you And glorie not in your inventions or worldly policie or care but in Gods power and mercy that we may safelie rejoice together and magnifie his great Name in his holy Temple And thinke not they on whom the Tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners then the rest of the people but unless you repent you will all perish Neither do you my children which are here resident boast against your weaker brethren be not high minded but fear Let not the custome of Gods judgment harden thee but relate unto thy wandring brethren Gods wonders in this judgement and mercies in this sicknesse to his glorie and thy comfort and their encouragement And if there be anie evil lurk in thy heart which the broome of Gods wrath hath not swept out repent speedily least thou brag before the Victory and so God cut thee off suddenlie That so doing you may live in love and peace together to your lives end For if this Canker-worme doe no good he hath a Palmer-worme readie to bring famine if that prevaile not he hath a Catter-piller that unsensiblie shall devoure your Common-wealth and the brother shall betray the brother for want of love or for love of gaine If that serve not to reclaime you he hath Locusts of Hereticks and enemies to extirpe us and pill us bare of everie good thing and so what one leaves the other shall devoure And therefore prevent this Morphew that begins to spread over my bodie by timelie repentance by a seasonable and humble acception of this kind correction which God turne unto good and seal unto your soules that the remembrance hereof may be a scourge sufficient to you upon every falling into sin That your hearts may smite you and you return before God turn upon you in his just conceived wrath Fall not to complaining but to compunction look not at the deadnesse of trading but the deadnesse of faith and God shall work all for the best This I wish may be done when you meet and before you meet For as David drank not the water of Bethlem which was bought with blood but sacrificed it so neither ought you to bestow your deliverance on your ends but on Gods honour which hath cost the life of so many thousand In the mean time the Lord keep you all in soule and body until our meeting and after even to the coming of our Lord Jesus LORD many ask thee much t' whom much if had Would do much hurt few things would make me glad Few ask thee few things one would me compleat Give me that one thing I le no more treat This One I need one fills makes me run o're Give me this One thing CHRIST and I have store This One I crave will crave twice thrice again This One thing granted grateful I le remain That I once brought to Christ his Saints may bring This One Grace given me hence a thousand spring For this a thousand thanks and vows I le pay To thee ten thousand Praises sing for aye An exact Account of those that were buried of all Diseases from the 17. of March 1591. to the 22. of Decemb 1592. As also them that dyed in the Years 1603 1625 1630 1636 1637 1638 1646 1647 1648. with this present Year 1665. From March the 17 1591. to Decemb. 22. 1592. were Buried of all Diseases 25886 whereof of the Plague 11503. 1603. Total of Burials 38250 whereof of the Plague 30585. 1625. Total of Burials 54082 whereof of the Plague 35428. 1630. Total of Burials 10554 whereof of the Plague 1317. 1636. Total of Burials 27415 whereof of the Plague 12102. 1637. Total of Burials 14270 whereof of the Plague 3603. 1638. Total of Burials 16621 whereof of the Plague 508. 1646. Buried of the Plague 2436. 1647. Total of Burials 16452 whereof of the Plague 5285. 1648. Total of Burials 11509 whereof of the Plague ●…93 1665.   Tot. Pl. April 25. 398 2 May 2 388 0 May 9 347 9 May 16 353 3 May 23 385 14 May 30 399 17 June 6 405 43 June 13 558 112 June 20 611 168 June 27 684 267 July 4 1006 470 July 25 2785 1843. July 11 1008 725 July 18 1761 1089 The Total of all those that Died in the Years aforementioned of the plague to this present July the 25. 1665. 108022. DRaw near fond man and dress thee by this Glass Mark how thy bravery and big looks must pass Into Corruption Rottenness and Dust The fraile Supporters that betray'd thy Trust O weigh in time thy last and loathsome state To purchase Heav'n for tears is no hard rate Our Glory Greatness Wisdom all we have If misemploy'd but adde Hell to the Grave Only a fair redemption of Evil times Finds Life in Death and buries all our Crimes Certain easie excellent and cheap Receipts against the Plague 1 TAke the root of Zodoars that is perfect and good a few Raisins of the Sun and a small quantitie of Liquorish Champ it with your teeth and swallow it down Take this every morning it is an excellent Preservative 2. Lay a piece of Gold or some Leaves of pure Gold asteep in the juice of Lemmonds 12 houres or more then take it out and give the Patient the same juice with a little good wine and the Powder or Decoction of Angelica-roots 3. Take Ivie-berries that were ripe and are well dried make them into a fine Powder and take half a dram of it in two or three ounces of Plantain-water Sweat well To know whether the Plague be curable or not Take Galbanum make it soft and spread it upon a linnen cloth and apply it to the sore if the disease be curable it will stick that you can scarce pluck it but if not curable it will not stick FINIS The second kinde of infirmity or malady Numb 19.45 1 Cor. 10.11 Mr. Fenton in his spiritual Pers Mr Holland in his sp Pr Object Answ Object Answ Object Answ 1 Iohn 1.4 Psal 91 3. Psal 91.14 15 16. Povertie Psalm 9.18 Isa 14.4 30 ●●●olate ●●…sery 2 Sam. 20 18. Mat. 23.16 Unkindness P●al 91.5 The Lord Mayor Uncharitablenesse Distrustfulness I speak of those who by their place and calling should not have stirred but sto● to their charge † Mr. Balmford in his Dial. of the P●st p. 69. * Dr. Hering Epist before his defence printed 1624. 2 Sam. 28.3 2 Sam. 21.17 The Countreys ignorance Hard-heartednesse They fell nn the other extremity Comfort in God Obed. 5.10 Counsel to them Exod. 30.34 2 Sam. 23.17