cordis tuntio pectoris the smiting of the breast is the stamping beating downe and brusing of the heart This hath often teares as in Hannah who was in bitternesse of soule and prayed vnto the Lord and wept sore which is the foode of the soule and which feasted Christ more then all the prouision of Mary Magdalen besides while we eate the bread of sorrow drinking the wine of compunction wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things and shall be comforted This is the constant alimonie of the righteous at dinner and supper in life and death in prosperity aduersity The Prouerb is true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Boni autem valde flebiles viri In this case was Iob when his life abhorred bread and his soule dainty meate When hee complained that his gall was powred out on the ground Thus Dauid when his soule was sore vexed and he cried Thou O Lord how long When his expectation was not satisfied How long shall I take counsell in my soule When hee powred out his complaint before God and shewed before him his trouble but now he is deliuered and his soule is powred out in thanksgiuing How iustly may this condemne many who are so foolish and slow of heart that they neuer stirre vp their soules to the seruice of God but suffer the body like a thiefe to rob it The body is deified but the soule pined and famished no bread of life is sought to strengthen her no Gospell of peace to comfort her no deuotion to cherish her Some sell their soules as couetous vsurious Monsters who for wealth will commit any rauine robberie theft periurie false merchandise simonie There is not a more wicked thing then a couetous man for such an one setteth his owne soule to sale Some cast away their soules as the enuious and furious for nothing The couetous man hath wealth The Epicure pleasure The ambitious proud vpstart honour The Glutton meate and drinke but the enuious man consumes himselfe in pining being a thorne-hedge couered with nettels Some lay their soules to pawne to Sathan that they may swimme in the world prosperously and wantonly running on in sinne so long being deafe to God caring neither for words nor iudgements so soked in sinne that they cannot redeeme these pawnes because they can not repent Yet God crieth by his Prophets Oh doe not this abominable thing that I hate but if we encline not our eare to turne from our wickednes his furie must be powred forth to cut off man and woman childe and suckling and leaue none to remaine Wee may forget but God remembreth vs our Fathers our Kings our Princes and the people of the Land and woe vnto their soule who declare their sinne as Sodome for they haue rewarded euill vnto themselues Which may teach vs to remember the Lord in powring out our soules in all deuout and humble acknowledgement of his mercies least our soules abhorring him his soule loathe vs. It is reported that at a Sermon of Vincentius Ferr one was so moued in spirit that his face shined on the suddaine very glorious O that when we heare the great workes of the Lord wee would stirre vp the graces of God within vs that the Spirit of God might not be quenched in vs. Nothing is more precious then the soule within vs which made Dauid pray Mine eyes are vnto thee O God the Lord In thee is my trust Leaue not my soule destitute Arise O Lord disappoint him cast him downe Deliuer my soule from the wicked which is thy sword O keepe my soule and deliuer me Let mee not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee In a well disposed Christian the body is seruant the soule is Mistris but in an infected person the body is predominant Take heede of this Plague The body is but the weight and burthen of the soule while this oppresseth the soule is in prison Forget not the exhortation which speaketh to you as children Forget not to entertaine strangers for thereby some haue entertained Angels vnawares If we reiect knowledge and forget the Law of our God he will also forget our children O be not as Ierusalem hauing her filthinesse in her skirts she remembred not her last end therefore she came downe wonderfully she had no comforter the enemie magnified himselfe Before we be driuen to remember the Lord in farre countries Let vs set our heart and our soule to seeke the Lord If we returne to the Lord with all our heart with all our soule and pray our supplications shall bee heard our cause maintained and wee shall be forgiuen Remember this late mercy in the midst of Iudgement Extoll the admirable lenity of the Lord towards vs who hath gleaned but some when all feared to be cut downe The yeares are not many since the Lord with a famine did shake many parts of this Land a terrible sword which made Iulius Caesar in all his warres to conquer more by famine then the sword It made Lysimachus in Thracia to yeeld himselfe captiue to Domitian the Emperour it brought vp that bloody Law amongst the Soldiers of Cambises marching toward the Aethiopians that the Tenth among themselues should be killed in the Army to asswage hunger It made the Roman Mothers eate their owne children The Athenians vexed by Sylla to eat the greene grasse of the fields and mosse of the walles Alexander to eate his Camels Elephants and other beasts that carried luggage for the warres the Hymmi to eate their Dogges It made Abraham flye from Canaan to Egypt Isaack to Abimelech King of the Philistines and all the sonnes of Iacob to goe to Pharaoh King of Egypt God like the Physitian maketh vs fast to recouer health Vpon Famine haue wee beene so humbled as wee should haue beene The yeares are not many therefore since the the Lord threatned vs with another sword that of a Barbarous Nation to deuoure vs how soone was it forgotten This yeare therefore the Lord seeing vs wantonly secure and sleeping and snorting in our sinnes drew another sword against many parts of the Land by a Plague This is the snare of the Hunter it catcheth suddenly some walking some feeding some sporting some waking some sleeping It is the terrour by night breeding many terrours and feares in the night the night being a solitary time and solitarines increaseth feares the night being a time of Incendiaries and Robbers which set vpon men vnawares a time of feare in regard of the weaknes of the Imagination or of terrible dreames or sudden affrights a time terrible to trauelers where the least noise amateth them Per noctem metantur agros sonus omnis aura Exterrent pennaque leui commota volucris It is the arrow that flyeth by day Sagitta Angeli mortis quam emittit interdiu the arrow
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 loue of God His soule kept Gods testimonies Neuer did Burgensis so iustly entitle his booke Scrutinium scripturarum as Dauid might his meditations Scrutinium praeceptorum His soule wayted for the Lord more then they that wayte for the morning Hee that hopeth must hope to the end Hee prayed that his soule might not be gathered with sinners that his soule which was his darling might be rescued from destruction and the Lyons This hath breath breathed into it by the spirit of God and therefore is euer ready to breath out sighes groanes supplications thanksgiuing vnto God vpon the remembrance of his workes his mercies his iudgements his prouidence his deliuerances as heere When I remember these things I powre out my soule in me When word came to the King of Niniueh that God had thundred out a iudgement against that Citie by the voyce of Ionah Yet forty dayes and Niniueh shall be ouerthrowne Hee caused it to be proclaimed Let neither man nor beast taste any thing Let them crie mightily vnto God Let them turne euery one from his euill way and God saw their workes and God repented of the euill that hee had said he would doe vnto them and hee did it not That King was as all great ones should be carbo lampas a coale burning to himselfe a lamp shining to other men As hee for Niniueh so our gracious King CHARLES seeing the Lord angry with our Citie and Kingdome and sending out a Preacher vnto vs of the strongest lines to terrifie vs by a Pestilence sent forth a solemne Edict for a publique Fast through the whole Kingdome Wee haue seene a blessed effect and therefore now our gracious Soueraigne with zealous Dauid willing to haue a Memoriall kept of that late suddaine miraculous stopping of the vyals of Gods wrath amongst vs and others in staying of the Plague is this day with his Nobles and Courtiers assembled to giue publique thankes in the Congregation and hath commanded a generall publique Thanksgiuing to God throughout this whole Realme for so great and gracious a deliuerance acknowledging that they are not worthy of future fauors who are not truly thankfull for benefits already receaued To this end wee are met A King hath commanded vs and a Prophet is his leader We haue had sad times as our Dauid in this Psalme As the Hart hath panted after the water brookes so hath our soule panted after God Teares haue beene our meate the multitudes with whom we vsed to goe to the house of God and keepe holy day haue beene taken away our soules haue bin cast downe wee haue beene disquieted Deepe hath called vpon deepe Waues and billowes haue gone ouer vs God seemed to forget vs and therefore haue we mourned Yet againe wee are come to appeare before God and therefore let vs praise him who is the health of our countenance and our God Let vs remember what is past as Dauid When I remember c. My Text sheweth vs the two hands of God the one with a wound the other with a plaister the one casting downe the other raising vp the one killing the other making aliue Both pile vp a Beacon to call vs together to see what God hath done for vs and what we are bound to doe vnto God teaching vs that though our miseries troubles feares infirmities Plagues be as the hoast of the Aramites a great hoast yet more are with vs then against vs. Doth God send a sore he sends a salue also sorrow for a night ioy in the morning sobs and lamentations sometimes but songs congratulations afterward we see it in this Psalme in this Memoriall When I remember these things I powre out my soule in me The summe of which words is Dauids Memoriall of Gods mercies fauours deliuerances you may call it The oblation of the soule or hope for the Saints or a forme of thanksgiuing or the refuge of the afflicted or the safety of Gods children or Londons remembrancer by Dauids Memoriall shewing vs mercie in the midst of iudgement by our deliuerance from the late great Plague Wherein obserue 1. A diuine Art of memorie When I remember these things 2. A zealous Act of piety I powre out my soule in me In the 1. See his commemoration 2. His deuotion When I remember these things The whole verse is darke as reuerend Caluin obserueth by reason of the variety of times It is diuersly rendred by Aug. haec meditatus sum I haue meditated vpon these things By St. Amb. Psalter Haec memoratus sum I haue remembred rehearsed spoken of these things Simmachus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obseruing or registring and recalling in my minde Campensis interprets it of Gods prouidence shewed and his promises made for the deliuerance of the Fathers before Dauid Folengius of Gods promises to all his seruants Valentia of his promise concerning the comming of the Messiah But others that Dauid was recounting with himselfe what troubles he was in when his enemies reproached him in his miseries as if God had forsaken him forgotten to be gracious to him and in his aduersitie the abiects gathered themselues together against him to teare him Hee remembreth that God had brought him out of the horrible pit of the mirie clay set a new song in his mouth Memorie is taken either for an intellectuall habit left by some act or for some thing that stickes to the soule comprehending things past making an Act of them It is a resuming of any thing apprehended in the sense or vnderstanding Sense is for things present Hope for things to come Memory for things past Memorie is the lieger booke of the braine the Ianus that hath an eye behinde the storehouse of the minde but there is a three-fold memorie Beneficiorum This is to be reteined in vs Exemplorum This is to be exhibited by vs. Iniuriarum This is to be relinquished from vs. There must be a remembrance of Gods blessings and benefits therefore saith the Lord to the Church by Isai Put mee in remembrance Let vs plead together Remember what I haue done for thee in creation redemption preseruation The best Art of memory is to be humbled at Gods threatnings and comforted at his promises for exceeding griefes or exceeding ioyes leaue great impressions in vs. But this memory is hindred by worldly prosperity as the chiefe Butler forgat Ioseph a right temporizing Courtier who partly for feare to moue the King partly addicted to his owne profit and serue his owne turne would make no mention of Ioseph So the children of Israel called Iesurun waxed fat and kicked and then forsooke God which made him and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his saluation Dauid remembred God on his bed and in the night watches whiles others slept and snorted in their sinnes There is a remembrance of examples Moyses was a mercifull man which found fauour
in the sight of all flesh beloued of God and men His memoriall is blessed There is a remembrance of iniuries whereas the best remedy of an iniury is forgetting And at Athens it was enacted a decree obliuionis iniuriarum of forgetting of iniuries for when Thrasibulus had freed the Citie of thirty Tyrants and restored it to peace hee made a Law that none should remember any iniuries past which the Athenians call the Law of obliuion and this we reade of the Emperour Augustus who though of a most tenacious and retentiue memory Iniurias tamen cum primis obliuisceretur could yet forget wrongs as soone as they were offered To this end is that remembrance thou shalt not auenge nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people that remember thy end and let enmity passe that as when Bees fight the casting of a little dust vpon them endeth their strife so the remembrance of our end by common mortality in pestilence or otherwise still toling for the last gaspe should ring out the death of malice burie all wrongs in the graue of obliuion neuer to rise vp againe But I must not forget the remembrance of God the remembrance of vs here Hee remembreth his mercie and truth towards Israel Hee remembreth vs and visiteth vs and reuengeth vs of our persecutors hee taketh vs not away in his long suffering Hee being gracious and full of compassion hath made his wonderfull workes to be remembred Therefore hee commanded that a golden pot of Manna should be kept to remember what bread the children of Israel had in the wildernes The Sacrament of the Lords supper is a remembrance of the death passion of our blessed Sauiour All the feasts enioyned Israel required of them a memoriall of Gods benefits done vnto them The twelue Cakes on the pure table before the Lord were for a memoriall Dauid appointed the Leuites to record and to thanke and praise the Lord God of Israel They that escaped of the sword when they were scattered were to remember him among the Nations The two stones vpon the shoulder of the Ephod were for a memoriall vnto Aaron Ieremie remembring his afflictions miserie and wormewood and Gall his soule was humbled yet he hoped Ionas remembred the Lord and his soule fainted when no doubtfull earthly naturall helpe could release him when his father mother friend land sea his soule all had forsaken him yet the Lord tooke him vp and gaue him better hope Isai made mention of the louing kindnes of the Lord and the praises of the Lord his great goodnesse and multitude of louing kindnesses Neuer did Dauid more truly remember Ierusalem If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning If I doe not remember thee let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth a greater torment hee wished not to his enemie in the Poet Nec possis captas inde referre manus Sic fit in exitium lingua proterua tuum God hath plagues in store for them that forget him They shall bee deliuered into the hands of their enemies as the Israelites forgetting the Lord were sold into the hands of Sisera they wither in their greenesse before any other hearb their hope being cut of They forget God and stretch out their hands to a strange God and then God searcheth this out they shall haue their sins set in order before them and bee torne in pieces and none shall deliuer them they haue forgotten God and trusted in falshood therefore their skirts shall bee discouered vpon their face that their shame may appeare Though then thou forget to take bread for a Iourney as the Disciples did or forget thy friend in thy mind and be vnmindfull of him in thy riches Remember the Lord. Thy brethren may be put farre from thee thine acquaintance estranged thy kinsfolke may faile and thy familiar friends forget thee thy Louers may forget thee and not seeke thee there may be none to plead thy cause but the Lord remembreth vs prouoke him not therefore forget not the euerlasting God that brought you vp grieue not Ierusalem that nursed you There are some things that especially affect the memorie and we shall find all singular in God Assidnum Mirum Cognatum Dulce Decorum Triste Nouum Munus Amor Aetas Spes Timor Auctor Are we mindfull of things frequent and vsuall In God wee liue moue and haue our being Of things wonderfull His Name is wonderfull The Mighty God The Euerlasting Father Of things neere vs or persons alyed Wee are all his off-spring Of pleasant things O taste and see how the Lord is good Doe wee remember Faire Beautifull Goodly things He is fayrer then the children of men Sadde and sorrowfull things Behold and see if there be any sorrow like that of the Son of God Gifts There is a New-yeeres gift The Lord hath created a New thing in the earth A woman shall compasse a man Loue God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne Carry wee in memorie our age wee are his deare children as new borne babes Any thing we hope for No hope to that for the Sauiour who shall change our vile bodies Any thing we feare There is one wise and greatly to be feared the Lord sitting vpon his throne Our Benefactours Euery good and perfect gift is from the Father of lights King Dauid had infirmities and did beare them but this was his supporter I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most High I will remember the workes of the Lord Surely I will remember thy wonders of olde Wonderfull are the workes of Nature but more wonderfull are the workes of grace in our Iustification A wonder it was that the dead was raysed but a greater wonder that a poore fisherman whose hands were practised in his old torne netts and feete in the slime and mud of the sea should haue the power on a suddaine of conuerting soules A wonder that 's aboue all wonders that the Creator should become a creature with his bloud restore the lost sheepe from death to life yet thus He hath remembred his holy Couenant to deliuer vs from our Enemies Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe they may yet God will not forget vs. He remembreth vs that wee may remember him This made those who receiued blessings vnexspected from God to keepe some speciall memoriall as Leah conceiuing and bearing a sonne shee called his name Reuben for shee sayd The Lord hath looked vpon my affliction now therfore my husband will loue me She bare another sonne and called him Simeon Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated He hath giuen
mee this son also Hence the name of Immanuel God with vs Isay the helpe of the Lord Gabriel the strength of God Gamaliel the Reward of God Ieremy the high of the Lord Ioseph the encrease of the Lord Israel preuailing in the Lord Theodorus the gift of God Nathaniel the gift of God Mathew Gods gift Lazarus the helpe of the God Raphael the physicke of God Samuel placed of God Theophylus a louer of God Tobias the Lord is good Zachary the memorie of the Lord. Therefore Hagar hauing an Angel to come to her by the Well to tell her of Ishmael whom shee should bring forth the name of the Well was after Beer-lahai-Roy The Well of him that liueth and seeth me By liuing vnderstanding her selfe that liued after this glorious sight By seeing God who seeth our afflictions Thus Abraham called the place of Isaacs deliuerance Iehouah-ijreh The Lord will see or prouide which some take to be a prophecie of the Temple which should afterward be built at Ierusalem where the Lord would manifest and shew himselfe Others collect hence an argument of our confidence all other meanes fayling to cast our care vpon God as Abraham did who had another sacrifice prouided in stead of his sonne which he thought not vpon Thus Iacob hauing visions of comfort rose in the morning and set vp the stone that he had vsed as a pillow for a pillar calling the place Bethel the house of God a pillar not for adoration but commemoration yet that annointed pillar was a figure of Christ who is so called of his annointing As now he testified his thankfulnesse for the vision of the ladder so afterwards hauing wrastled with an Angel he called a place Peniel The Face of God For saith he I haue seene God face to face and my life is preserued that his posteritie might remember the place and vision he spake with him praesens praesentem he talked with God present as Moses with whom God did speake mouth to mouth and apparantly not in darke speeches Thus he being deliuered from Esau erected an Altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel God the God of Israel erecting as it were a Chappell vnto God calling the Altar God the signe by the thing signified so the bread in the Eucharist is called the Body of Christ so Moses built an Altar and called it Iehouah Nissi The Lord my banner and Dauid here hath his Memoriall When I remember Which is the shame of many in these dayes and reproueth their dulnesse who are like those Cittizens against whom when a great King came and besieged it and built great bulwarks against it a poore wise man by his wisedome deliuered that Cittie yet no man remembred that poore man They are like Ioash the King who remembred not the kindnesse which Iehoiada did to him but slew his sonne Zechariah the Priest like Syria that forgetting the God of saluation had a haruest of desperate sorrowe like Babylon saying I shall be a Lady for euer not laying the word to her hart neither remembring her latter end and therefore in a moment had losse of children and widowhood to come vpon her in her perfection they drinke and forget the lawe and peruert the Iudgement of any of the afflicted Doe not wee forget the things which our eyes haue seene Do they not depart from our hearts Doe we teach them our sonnes The Righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart We remember the least wrong of another to vs and forget the greatest of our sinnes against God We write iniuries in Marble but benefits in the sand Wee forget our Founders Patrons Benefactors Wee remember not the hand nor the day when we were deliuered from the enemy from the land of Egypt the house of bondage the doctrine of Rome the Spanish Inuasion wee forget the tossings of the Palatinate Bohemia and those sweet Royall Princes liuing amongst Strangers Euery one may be called Manasseh Forgetting This was the sinne of Israel now of England Wee are like the strange woman that forgat the couenant of her God It is storied that in a great battaile many being slaine and the bodies vnburied there followed a great Plague and this so infected men that they forgat their fathers names their childrens their owne names I am sure our forgetfulnesse of God and our Idolatrie brought the last Plague among vs. There was a Plague in this Iland vpon an Ecclipse of the Sun Anno Dom. 644. when the shauing of the Clergie Latine Seruice Inuocations of Saints were added with other Idolatrous corruptions to the Church whereupon the death of the Emperor Constance followed Haue not we made an Idoll of this Citie which hath stood 2733. yeares and being infected with the number of our people Dauids sinne boasted of the multitude of heads riches buildings that this was the Imperiall Citie of the Kingdome Chamber of the King that with Laodicea wee were rich encreased with goods and had need of nothing that with Tytus our Citie hath beene replenished the haruest of the time her reuenue a ioyous Citie her Merchants Princes her Traffique the Honourable of the earth Haue not Parents gloried in the number of their children and set too much their hearts vpon them Haue wee not ascribed our peace to the strength of our arme and not to him who teacheth as he did Dauid our hands to warre and our fingers to fight For this we had a Plague and as a Pestilence followed Idolatrie so often a warre followeth They chose new Gods there was warre in the gates As warre followeth so famine When the land sinneth I will breake the staffe of bread and will send famine vpon it and cut off man and beast from it Such is that threat If yee will not be reformed I will send the Pestilence among you and yee shall be deliuered into the hand of your enemie A consumption a feauer an extreame burning the sword hunger thirst nakednesse want of all things All these things for forgetting the Lord. Yet How many doe lightly esteeme this great token of Gods wrath The Plague which made Dauid pray Remoue thy stroke away from me I am consumed by the blow of thine hand O Lord thine arrowes sticke fast in mee and thy hand presseth me sore when he had the Plague It made Ezechias complaine that as a Lyon so the Lord did breake his bones that like a Crane or a Swallow so did hee chatter mourne as a Doue that his eye did faile with looking vpward For morbi natura indomita erat a medijs naturalibus and therefore God challengeth the cure of it to himselfe I haue heard thy prayer I haue seene thy teares Behold I will heale thee Hezekiah was sicke to the death and prayed to the Lord Isai prayed the Priests prayed the Courtiers the
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 vlâ—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 flâ—â— 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 sâ—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.