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A12977	A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Worcester vpon Sunday morning, Nouemb. 27. 1636 In the time of pestilence in other places of this land, and now published in the time of the visitation of that citie, with that grevious sicknesse, and by reason of it. By Geo. Stinton,	Stinton, George, b. 1599 or 1600.	1637 (1637)	STC 23271; ESTC S113491	15,854	40

plague of his owne heart saying Ps 51.3 I acknowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me praying in that Psalme thus Create in me a clean heart O God V. 10. He knew his heart had been foule and had need of clensing and therefore prayed for it Purge me with hysope and J shal be clean wash me c. wash me throughly from mine iniquity V. 7. 2. Ps 19.12 and cleanse me from my sinne O cleanse thou me from my secret faults But to make short Let my exhortation be that of the Prophet Jsai ch 1. ●6 Wash yee make you clean put away the evill of your doings and that of S. Iames ch 4.8 Cleanse your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts yee double minded and to make use of the words Ezek. 20.43 Let us remember our wayes and all our doings wherein we have been defiled and lothe our selves in our owne sight for all our evils that we have committed There is one thinge more you know which I must needs say somthing of but now can say but litle which is concerning prayer and supplication to be made by Gods people c. They are the words of S. Iames in his last chap. 14. Is any sick among you Let him call for the Elders of the Church and let thē pray over him Is any infectious contagious sicknes among us Let me say too let the Elders of the Church the Ministers be called unto and upon and they must pray for the people according to the advise Ioel. 2.16.17 being part of the Epistle for the Fast-day Gather the people assemble the Elders let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the Altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord c. and as Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron who were Priests for Moses and Aaron among his Priests Ps 99.6 and said intreat the Lord your God that he may take away from me this death Exod. 10.16.17 So it is the part and duty of the Priests and Ministers especially to intreat the Lord God that he would take away from the people this death and Plague and this they must doe according to my Text in his house his holy places and Temples As David said Ps 68.33 Ps 42.8 that he went with the multitude into the house of God so the Priest and multitude of people who are safe and free must goe together into the house of God and there make prayer and supplication unto him they must as the same David said that he and the people would doe Ps 132.7 goe into his Tabernacle and fall low on their knees before his footstoole and withall according to my Text spread forth their hands there and as the same David exhorted Ps 134 2. lift up their hands in the Sanctuary their hands as Davids were V. 6. Ps 26. being washed in Innocency before they with him goe to the Lords Altar and with those hands the heart being lifted up according to the words formerly cited Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens and thus with David Ps 5. comming into Gods house upon the multitude of his mercies in his feare worshiping towards his holy Temple both Priest people may say with him Ps 48.8 We wait for thy loving kindnesse O God in the mid'st of thy Temple and they may hope and be confident that although as David saith Ps 11.4 the Lords seat is in heaven yet with all as it is there the Lord is in his holy Temple that this Lord will as the same David was assured he would his Ps 18.6 heare their voyce out of his holy Temple and that their complaint shall come before him and shall enter even into his eares and that according unto the prayer of Solomon Davids sonne in my Text he will heare in heaven his dwelling place and forgive And as there must be publique prayer in Gods house so ought there to be private in our owne and in our private roomes according to our Saviours advise Mat. 6.6 Enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore pray to thy Father which is in secret and according to the example of Daniel who in his chamber kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed Dan. 6.10 Both publique and private prayer are now injoyned by our Soveraigne and I trust it will prove a soveraigne remedie for the occasion Let me be bold and say making use of our Saviours words Mat. 17.21 This kind this kind of sicknesse will not goe out of this land but by prayer and fasting We know what hath been the effect of prayer and supplication and that at such a time as this The Lord threatned to smite his people with the Pestilence Moses besought him to pardon their iniquity and the Lord presently said V. 12.19.20 J bave pardoned according to thy word Numb 14. The Lord did smite them with the Pestilence but when Phineas stood up and prayed the plague ceased As we use to read it Ps 106.30 In that great Plague in the time of King David David and the Elders of Israel fell upon their faces and prayed for the people and called upon the Lord and the Lord commanded the Angell and he put up his sword againe into the sheath thereof as wee may read 1 Chron. V. 16.17.26.27 2. King 20.7 21. Once more King Hezekiah was sicke as it is thought and is probable of the plague and sicke to the death and he prayed unto the Lord and hee spake unto him and hee gave him a signe as it is 2. Chron. 32.24 And as we see hence what hath been the effect of prayer at such a time as this so we are told what it shall be and that by the Lord himselfe and that too answering this very petition of Solomon which is my text unto which you will finde the Lords gracious answer in the last mentioned booke 2. Chron. 7. The Lord appeared and said to Solomon J have heard thy prayer and if I send Pestilence among my people if my people which is called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seeke my face and turne from their wicked waeyes then I will heare from heaven and will forgive their sinne and will heale their land v. 12.13.14 from this Lord his Prophet Ioel hath assured us that upon the humiliation of the people upon the teares and Prayer of the priests the Lord will be jealous for his land and pity his people chap. 2 17.18 and the prayer of faith of Gods faithfull people shall save the sicke and the Lord shall raise him up c. saith S. Iames chapt 5.15 and therefore as he saith vers 13. Is any among you afflicted Let him pray And let me say for those among us that are afflicted let us pray for it may be the case is so with some of them that they cannot pray for thēselves Pray for one another that yee may bee healed Saith the same Apostle in the same chapt vers 16. It is the best office that one Christian can doe for another which S. Paul most frequently and earnestly desired might bee done for him and at the hands of those unto whom he wrot begg'd for nothing more earnestly then for that as doe shew those words of his unto the Romās Now I beseech you brethren for the Lord Iesus Christs sake and for the love of the spirit that yee strive together with me in your prayers to God for me chapt 15.30 And therefore as he said unto the Hebrewes chap. 13 19. I beseech you to doe this so let me beseech that this may bee done frequently faithfully humbly heartily Pray for thy selfe out of great necessity For others out of Christian charity Pray that thou maist truly know the Plague of thine owne heart that God would cease it in thy heart and that he would cease and stop it in the land Vse the prayer of the prophet Habbakuk in that chapt where he speaketh of the Pestilence ch 3.2 O Lord in wrarth remember mercy V. 5. that of the prophet Isai chapt 64.9 Be not wrath very sore O Lord neither remember iniquity for ever behold see wee beseech thee we are all thy people That of the prophet Daniel chapt 9.19 O Lord heare O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and doe not deferre for thine owne sake O God! Or that of Solomon in my text Heare thou in heaven thy dwelling place and forgive pray that God would heare in H●●ven his dwelling place the prayers her● made upon Earth his footstoole and that he would heare in heaven the prayers made in heaven for us upon the earth ●● Iesus Christ our Mediatour who ever liveth to make intercession for us By th● blessed Saints out of the altitude of their charity the Church triumphant for the Church militant By the soules under the Altar who cry and say how long O Lord holy and true O thou that hearest the prayers unto thee shall all flesh come Ps ●● Now unto him that heareth the prayers God the Father to Iesus Christ God the Sonne who prayeth for us and to God the holy Ghost be all Honour c. FINIS

said and that my observation more manifest The words of my text are If there be in the land Pestilence And the words of the Lord in the afore mentioned chapt of Ezek. vers 19. are Jf J send a Pestilence into a land and powre out my fury upon it So that when the Lord sendeth a Pestilence into a land he then powreth out his fury upon it The wrath of the Lord the Pestilence his anger fury that disease going and being put together in the same Prophet chap. 7.14.15 and Ierem. 21.5.6 But you shall have further proofe from examples In the 11. of Nu. 33. it is said that the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague And chap. 16. 46. the words of Moyses are there is wrath gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun Again the Psalmist speaking of those Israelites saith thus They provoked the Lord to anger with their own inventions the Plague was great among them Ps 106.29 Once more 2. Sam. 14.1 it is said that the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and then vers 15. that the Lord sent a Pestilence upon Jsrael Hence you see that still the Lord was angry when the Pestilence was sent abroad and that this sicknesse hath beene a heavy consequent of his heavy wrath and anger And withall from the last cited place that it is of his sending The Lord sent a Pestlence upon Israel Even as before I told you the words of the Lord in Ezekiel If J send a pestilence into a land and I have sent among you the Pestilence saith he Amos 4.10 In Psal 105.16 it is said that he called for a Dearth upon the land and in like manner I may say that he calleth for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in septuag for the Lord sent a pestilence 2. Sam. 24.15 Vers 9. a Death upon a land and sendeth it biddeth it goe and it goeth come and it commeth doe this and it doth it as the Centurion said of himselfe and his souldiours Math. 8. The stormy wind fulfilleth his word Ps 148.8 and so doth the stormy winde as I may call it of sicknesse and death which as it were bloweth us away it fulfilleth his word his will and pleasure Before him went the Pestilence said the Prophet Habakuk chapt 3.5 it was ready at hand when he would be pleas'd to call for it And as it went before him so it never went abroad but from him making use of Labans words Gen. 24.50 I may say that this thing proceedeth from the Lord. In the first of Samuel chap. 6.9 the Philistines being plagued with Emrods the Priests and the diviners talked of a Chance that might happen unto them Jf said they the Arke of God goeth not such a way then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us it was a Chance that happened to us But we being now plagued must know that it is not a chance that hath happened unto us but that it is his hand that hath smitten us Vers 19. As the Magicians of Egypt Exod. 8. said of the dust turned to lice This is the finger of God So may we say of the pestilence that this is the hand of God and that we may perceive by the words of God himselfe thus threatning Pharaoh now I will stretch out mine hand that I may smite thee and thy people with Pestilence Exod. 9.15 And we know how David accounted of it when he made choice of it saying Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord. 2. Sam. 24.14 Answerably in the last Proclamation for the Fast it is acknowledged pronounced to be the immediat hād of God Yea it is a sword in that hand the sword of the Lord the Pestilence is the language 1. Chron. 21.12 where is the same storie with that 2. Sam. 24. Which sword to use the words of David 2. Sam. 11.25 devoureth one as well as another as well rich as poore young as old where it lighteth and hitteth and of which wee may say as the same David did of the sword of Saul that from the blood of the slain it returneth not empty Chap. 1.22 If I whet my glittering sword my sword shall devour flesh saith the Lord in the Song dictated unto Moses Deut. 41.42 Oh! what a world of flesh hath this sword devoured 1. Sam. 15.33 How many Women as Samuel said unto Agag hath this sword made childlesse In the holy storie what doe we read of fourteen thousand and seven hundred Numb 16.49 but there is a greater number in the same book viz. twenty and foure thousand Chap. 1. Cor. 10.8 25.9 and that as S. Paul saith in one day But we heare of a farre greater summe yet even seventy thousand men and that in three dayes space some have thought lesse then one day 2. Sam. 24.15 All these in all a hundred and eight thousand and seven hundred among the Lords people Israel as they are called in the Text. In the Histories of other nations we find most strange reports To tell you some of them Pet. Forestus de febr pestilent and concerning some great cities As Venice in which in one plague time as a learned Physitian hath reported died sexaginta medici no fewer then threescore Physitians who were not able to doe themselves any good And Constantinople in which the Plague hath been very frequent and is said to have taken away a matter of two hundred thousand in a yeere Henr. Blount in his voyage into the Levant pag. 44. But the greatest Plague that I ever heard of from one place was that at Grand-Cairo in Egypt in which not many yeeres since as a late worthy Travailer who was told it there hath told us were swept away in one yeere eighteen hūdred thousand odde And here I think upon that which is reported of that mighty Persian Emperour Xerxes Herodot lib. 7. who having gathered together as huge an army as I think ever before any had done and having gotten to be seventeen hundred thousand strong viewing upon a time all that company being together broke forth into teares upon this consideration that within the space of one hundred yeeres not one man of so many hundred thousand would be left alive Epist lib. 3. ep 7. and as Pliny saith quòd tot millibu● tam brevis immineret occasus so great a number should last so litle a time Vpon the consideration of those eighteene hundred thousād one hundred thousād more then in that army I cannot but say this Good Lord that in so short a space not of one hundred but of one yeere not one man of so many hundred thousand should be left alive and that so great a number in so litle time should be cut of To leave other countries and to come home to our own land I cannot but here speake of that most heavy and extreame plague