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land_n	blood_n	innocent_a	shed_v	1,866	5	10.2407	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05205	Foure sermons preached and publikely taught by Richard Leake, preacher of the word of God at Killington, within the baronrie of Kendall, and countie of Westmerland: immediately after the great visitation of the pestilence in the fore-sayd countie.	Leake, Richard.	1599 (1599)	STC 15342; ESTC S106749	68,646	146

cast into the fire and burnt vp for euer And first most famous and worthie of all memorie is the example of Gods iudgement vpon Ioab and al his posteritie 2. Sam. 3.29 for murthering so cruelly and deceitfully two valiant Captaines Abner and Amasa as appeareth in their stories at large where Dauid thus threatneth the iudgement of the Lord against him and his whole posteritie saying Let the blood of Abner fall on the head of Ioab and on all his fathers house that the house or issue of Ioab be neuer without some that haue running issues or a leper or that leaneth on a staffe or that falleth on the sword or that lacketh bread Loe here how many wayes for this bloodie fact God will plague punish him First with running issues a sore disease With leprosie a sorer if it can be With lamenes meant by leaning on a staffe Blood for blood according to the Lord his threatning He that sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed againe Pouertie meant by lacking of bread and Cain for shedding the innocent blood of his brother Abel Genes 4. vvas both he and his posteritie made runnagates ouer the face of the whole earth In the 7. and 8. of Exodus you shall finde how oft the Lorde plagued Pharaoh and the whole land for cruelly oppressing his people euen with ten principall plagues there withall their great and capitall offences 1. King 13. So he dryed the hand of king Ieroboam when he stretched it out against the Prophet of the Lord to take him Take heede of this the couetous men that haue long noses to smell your profit a farre off Ahab and Iezebel because vniustly they tooke away Naboth his vineyard and lead a great number a whoring after strange gods the Lord caused Iezebels daintie carkasse to be eaten vp of dogs by the wall of Izreel yea that his posteritie should neuer haue the honor of a comely buriall but if they dyed in the citie 1. King 21.25 2. King 9.10 1. King 24.10 16.3.4 the dogs should deuoure them and if in the field the foules of the ayre should eate thē vp Euen as the Lorde executed his fierce wrath vpon all Ieroboam his seede and vpon the whole house of Baasha for their Idolatrie Let all couetous cormorants and Idolatrous whoremongers repent for feare the like iudgement should fall vpon them 2. King 1. ver 1 2 3 4. Ahaziah hauing gotten a fall through a lattise window and hurt himselfe very sore despaired of helpe from the true God and therefore sent messengers to enquire of the god of Ekron concerning his recouerie which thing was so abominable to the Lord that he sent a messenger vnto him to tell him that he should not come downe from the bed whereon he lay but dye the death In our sicknes seeke vnto none but God 2. King 6. Beware in our sicknesse wee seeke not vnlawfull meanes for our recouerie The King of Syria his host comming to take the Prophet in Dothan the Lord for their boldnes smote them all with blindnesse A dangerous matter to attempt the persecuting of Gods children Gehezi for coueting that vnlawfully 2. King 5.27 which his master had refused of Naaman religiously when it was offered was smitten with a leprosie And of all other 2. Chro. 21.18.19 most fearfull is the sicknesse and death wherewith the Lord smote Jehoram for vnnaturall murthering his brethren and for abominable Idolatrie he smote him with an incurable disease euen the disease of his bowels so that day by day through the disease his bowels fell out so after the end of two yeeres continuing in this sore disease his guts fell out with the disease And lastly of Herod Act. 12.25 how horrible a thing to bee heard that for his pride and arrogating glorie to himself which was only due to God Pride wil haue a fall was most fearefully throwne downe from his throne of estate and deuoured of wormes To leaue the testimonies of the word and to come to the demonstration of Gods fearefull visitations by strange sicknesses Examples of Gods iudgements vpon wicked persecutors of the Church against wicked persecutors of Christs Church blasphemers of his name recorded and spoken of in ancient histories let this bee the first One Henry a famous Archbishop of Mentz a vertuous and wel disposed prelate being most cruelly dealt withall by the Bishop of Rome and his substitutes and being debarred of all lawfull proceeding and iudgement in law against him mildly answered the wicked Iudges thus Seeing that neither by appeale to the Apostolike sea nor by your vpright sentences of your selues I can haue my innocencie tried I appeale to the Lord Iesus Christ as to the most high and iust Iudge A righteous appeale and cite you before his iudgement there to answer me before the high Iudge for neither iustly nor vprightly but by corruption as it pleaseth you you haue iudged Whereunto they scoffingly answered Goe you first and we will follow Not long after the said Henry dyed whereof the two Cardinals that were the wicked Iudges hauing intelligence said one to the other iestingly Behold he is gone before and vvee must follow after according to our promise And verely they said truer then they were aware of A terrible example for corrupt Iudges to beware for within a while they dyed both in one day For the one sitting vpon a Iakes to ease himselfe voyded out all his guts into the draught and miserably ended his life The other gnawing off the fingers of his hands and spitting them out of his mouth all deformed in deuouring himselfe dyed And one Arnold who became a false Iudas to the good Archbishop in accusing of him when hee should haue excused him Anno Do. 1105. Ex Helmoldo Gotfrido Viterbiensi Act. Mon. Fox pag. 196. shortly after dyed likewise and for certaine daies lying stinking vpon the ground vnburied was open to the spoyle of euery rascall and harlot The like horrible and fearfull stroke of Gods hand was executed vpon a wicked papist and persecutor of the good Merindolians in France who was called Iohn de Roma this wicked wretch of meere malice against the trueth plagued the poore protestants of Merindoll with a strange and vnwonted kind of torment wherein hee most delighted and most commonly practised he filled bootes with boyling grease and put them vpon the legges of Christians tying them backward to a forme with their legges hanging downe ouer a small fire and in this torment he examined them of their faith belike thinking by this intolerable paine to make them reuolt from their faith This monster at length hauing almost finished the date of his wicked daies fell sicke of a most horrible disease strange and vnknowne to any Phisition so vnnaturall were the paynes wherewith he was continually vexed in all his bodie that no oyntment no fomentation nor any thing else could