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lord_n	baronet_n	knight_n	sir_n	27,306	5	7.3237	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02799	An antidote against the plague. Or Panchrestōn: a salue for all sores which applied and practised, will soone awaken the Lords mercy, and suddenly cause the storms of his iust iudgements to vanish away. Deliuered in a sermon, preached within the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paules, London.; Antidote against the plague.	Hastler, Thomas.	1615 (1615)	STC 12930; ESTC S118751	18,369	68

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE PLAGVE OR 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Salue for all sores Which applied and practised will soone awaken the Lords mercy and suddenly cause the storms of his iust iudgements to vanish away Deliuered in a Sermon preached within the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paules London Iehovae liberatori LONDON Printed by M. Flesher 1625. TO THE HONOrable right worthy Sir Francis Wortley Knight and Baronet Grace mercie and peace from God our Father and our Lord Iesus Christ Right Noble Sir IF I may be bold to looke so high I dare looke no higher then your selfe in this my Dedication were I able to bring forth a birth worthy of a higher countenance to whom should I present it but vnto my gracious Lord of Pembroke Nostri hujus saeculi miraculum I am sure Reipublicae sustentaculum vnto whom in spem veni for earthly encouragemēts But I neuer yet could so ouerweene my owne abilities as to think their fruits worthy of such a patronage And I must deale plainly with you I am altogether timerous if not a little presumptuous to shrowde your Honours name in the forhead of such vnliterate lines yet since that not onely your Noble desires for my good but also your intensiue extensiue exhibition of more then common loue doe iustly challenge some testification of thankfulnesse without which I might rightly incurre Claudius Caesars censure vpon ingratitude therefore instead of a better acknowledgement I dedicate this poore widowes mite this formlesse first borne issue and in that my selfe my best deuoted seruice to your noble protection I remember what Socrates did reply to Aeschines his schollar when being poore he tooke it to heart that he was not able to gratifie him in a more ample manner An non intelligis quam magnum munus mihi dedisti nisi forte teipsum parui aestimas Doest thou not know saith his Master how great a gift thou hast giuen mee belike thou accountest thy selfe little worth Implying that hee accounted his gift though poore more precious than theirs who were rich because though his gift was but very small yet he cast in all that he had Likewise it is granted that there is no proportion betweene such a seeming something such a lesse then nothing as this and the great loue obseruance which you haue condignlie merited at my hands Yet seeing the Moralist tells mee that where onely the qualitie of the affection and not the quantity of the present is to bee attended Modicum non differt à magno it skils not whether the present bee great or small so that your affection may alwaies rest beyond desert and gracious acceptance farre exceeding expectation in which hope resting I craue leaue for writing and take leaue of writing praying God to blesse you still in this life and to crowne you with blessednesse it selfe in the life to come Your Honours in loue and duty Tho Hastler Ad Lectorem Scripta vide monitusque caue cupit ipse moneri Sed non morderi Neu fallat Nominis vmbra Quaerito non a quo sed quae sint scripta faueto Mente bona studui prodesse fruare Ualeto Servus tuus peripsum conservus sub ipso T. H. AN ANTIDOTE against the Plague Conf●●●… out of Math. 8. ●●rse 25. Then his Disciples came vnto him and awoke him saying Lord saue vs wee perish CHrist being wonderfull in his Natiuity wonderful in his Ascension and wonderfull in his Transfiguration is here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beyond admiration by his miraculous works In this Chapter are specified 4. seuerall miracles first the cleansing of a leprous man 2 the curing of a woman troubled with a feuer 3 the healing of the Centurions seruant and lastly the strange appeasing of the wind therefore this is rightly called by S. Ambrose Scriptura miraculosa the miraculous Scri●●●●● This miracle is record●● 〈◊〉 such as are either sicke or troubled or oppressed or beset with any danger that whatsoeuer storme of aduersity shall strike our sailes or what calamitie soeuer shal befall vs we may remember that the blessed Disciples euen the neerest and dearest to our Lord Iesus haue tasted of the same whip afore vs therefore in thē as it were in a Christall Glasse we may view the common state of Christs Church militant It is like the Arke that floated vpon the waters like the Lilly that groweth among the thorns like the bush that burnt and was not consumed like Christs shippe in this place couered ouer with waues and yet not suncke praemuntur iusti vt pressi clament clamantes exaudiantur exauditi glorisicent Deum saith Leo the first the righteous are therefore pressed with sore afflictions that they might cry vnto the Lord and crying might be heard and heard might glorifie God pessima necessitas optima or andi magistra saith Bernard the sharpest perplexitie is the best Schoolemaster or mistresse of Prayer When the Disciples once perceiued that there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mightie storme a shaking tempest which strongly had inuironed them when the Lord had sent forth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a vehement whirlewind or as Lorinus termeth it plurium conflictū ventorum a conflict of many winds which all at once smote the shippe on euery part and broght the swelling waues euery way vpon it as if in an instant they would haue buried both ship and passengers in the surges when the mercilesse Ocean vnder them was thus billowing the brittle ship about them reeling the Mariners for feare of shipwracke lamentably shreeking and Christ their only hope and helpe in the sterne fast sleeping when this great ieopardie had euen almost seized on them all Then his Disciples came vnto him and awoke him saying Lord saue vs we perish In which words not tying my selfe to tread precisely in the exact steps of logicall rules for our better instruction and further light we may obserue foure generalls first who procured this calme his Disciples secondly of whom did they procure it of Christ they came to him thirdly the effect of their comming they awoke him lastly the manner how they did awaken him by prayer the forme which they vsed being here expressed Lord saue vs we perish Vpon all these I intend to treat somewhat orderly and briefly according to Gods assistance and the times permittance To begin with the first Then his Disciples came to him then that is when the sea thus raged the ship thus tossed the tacklings thus shattered the passengers thus trembled and shaked then and not afore the Disciples came to him first they would make tryall whether the winds would cease or decrease naturally and the stormes calme of themselues but when they saw all dangers increased in greater extremitie and more grieuous vehemencie when they thought themselues past all hope of recouery when they despaired of their owne safetie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then when the last waue was ready to sweepe them away They