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B01127	Salomon's pest-house, or tovver-royall. Newly re-edified and prepared to preserve Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable excercise [sic] for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne, a handfull of holy meditations usefull and requisite for Gods people, men and women, of all estates and degrees, in these doubtfull dayes, whether troubled in body or minde, and whether Gods visitation of the plague increase or decrease. / By the reverend, learned and godly divine I.D. preacher of Gods word. ; Whereunto is added Mr. Holland's admonition, and Mr. Phaer's prescription for bodily physicke. Also London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality ann. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines,.	I. D.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?	1636 (1636)	STC 6176.5; ESTC S91591	52,813	78

SALOMONS PEST-HOVSE OR TOVVER-ROYALL NEVVLY RE-EDIFIED and prepared to preserve Londoners with their Families and others from the doubted Deluge of the Plague Item A laudable excercise for those that are departed or shall depart out of the City into the Country to spend their time till they returne A handfull of Holy Meditations usefull and requisite for Gods people men and women of all Estates and degrees in these doubtfull dayes whether troubled in body or minde and whether Gods Visitation of the Plague increase or decrease By the reverend learned and godly Divine I. D. Preacher of Gods Word Whereunto is added Mr. Hollands Admonition and Mr. Phaers Prescription for bodily Physicke Also London Looke-backe A description or representation of the great and memorable Mortality Ann. 1625. in Heroicke matchlesse lines LONDON Printed for HENRY HOLLAND 1636. To the judicious Christian READER BEloued The wisest Preacher of a mortall man and of immortall memorie that euer was or shall bee inspired with the spirit of God saith There is a time to weepe as well as to laugh a time to mourne as well as to dance And certes seeing euery man and woman vnder their owne Vines and Fig-trees haue a long time satiated themselues with laughing and dauncing or making merry with their friends doubtlesse now is the time that God calls for weeping and mourning at the least For hath he not shot diuers of his Arrowes and haue not some Bullets fallen from his warning Pieces which Arrowes and Bullets both poysoned with the Pestilence haue hit and slaine some people not onely in and about this populous Citie but elsewhere in the spatious Country also And who perceiueth not that the destroying Angel hath vnsheathed his sword and brandished it ouer vs of this Citie vs of this whole Land Yea the black Horse of the Pestilence with pale Death on his backe hath beene and is eft-soones prauncing and trampling in the streets of our Citie at midnight And the Angell hauing wings hath flowne also into the Country and there done as before Now though the sinfull sonnes and daughters of men lie neuerthelesse still sleeping in their sensualites yet the vigilant Watchmen of our English Israel haue discouered both the one and the other That is the faithfull Ministers of the Gospell obseruing this Gods begun iudgement and further threat'ned punishment of the Pestilence they I say haue not spared both in Citie and Country publickly and priuately with feruencie to pray for vs for the preuenting and diuerting of Gods further furious Hand vpon vs and in their preachings with their siluer Trumpets to lift vp their voyces to sound aloud and cry downe the high-crying sinnes of this Citie of this Land Yea diuers of these worthy Ministers haue beene and are so zealous in praying and preaching for Repentance and Perseuerance that their throats are growne hoarse their bodies weak and their healths impaired In so much that vulgar Profanists and Carnallists of the like as Festus once said of Paul are ready to say much zeale hath made them mad But howeuer for this their assiduitie and indefatigable labour of loue their reward is with the Lord and though the zeale of Gods House doe eat them vp yet they shall once shine as Starres in the Firmament of Heauen Among those reuerend Diuines one hath compiled this comfortable Treatise or to vse its proper Title-pharse hath reedified and prepared this Pest-house or Tower-Royall first built by King Salomon so many hundred yeeres agone before he turned from a Prince to a Preacher If any list to be curiously inquisitiue and aske who or what is the Authour this I. D or to question his attributes of reuerend learned godly Giue me the publisher his friend leaue to answer First that happ'ly his humilitie is such and for some reasons in his Christian wisedome he desires not to haue the Phylacterie of his Name expressed and it being so he is not the first of Gods people that hath desired his name to be obscured in a comfortable and vsefull worke Secondly for his attributes let me also answer for the first they that know him doe know him so to be for the two latter let his labour it selfe answer and witnesse for him To conclude Whosoeuer the Author is or whatsoeuer I the publisher am Know this courteous Reader that it was written and is published for mine owne and thy Christian solace and comfort now in a requisite time of a begun Sicknesse and Mortalitie the meditation wherof in our best healths will doe vs doubtlesse no hurt And who knoweth Yes the Lord knoweth whether it may be his Swan-like Song this writing mine For who can number vnto himselfe any more dayes or houers Lord teach me so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart to wisedome in labouring to make my peace with God And for my paines in publishing hereof let me craue your Prayers And so I betake you to God and the good Word of his Grace which is able in sicknesse in health in life in death in Citie or Countrie to build you vp further and to giue you an Inheritance in Salomons strong Towre-Royall among them that are sanctified Farewell in Christ H.D. A Post-script to the Reader SInce God began this yeere his Visitation and to shake his Rod of the Pestilence ouer vs I haue obserued an errour among the sonnes of men viz. They haue beene and are very diligent in enquiring after the weekly Bils of mortality and they that could first obtaine the Bill from their Parish Clarks haue acknowledged to be most beholden vnto them and I will not simply condemne this their diligence But come we to enquire what vse they haue made of this their double diligence and prime-intelligence If they haue found an increase of the number haue they humbled themselues in Prayer endeauouring to depart from their sinnes to trauaile to this Towre-Royall in the sequell for safetie Surely no few or none haue so done the increase happ'ly hath deiected them made them murmure and proiect to flee to their Country-houses here or there and peraduenture to send beforehand their Wiues Children and Houshold-stuffe yea very carefull they haue been are for this their bodily safegard Againe on the other side if they haue seene by the Bill a decrease in the number how many nay how few haue returned to God by the way of thankfulnesse for such his great mercy forbearance I feare and it appeares that rather they haue beene thereby encouraged to goe on in security if not in sensualitie I may say therefore with the Authour and Founder of our Towre-Royall This is also an euill vnder the Sun committed by the sonnes of men Of whom I my selfe being one ingenuously confessing I cannot free my selfe from being tainted with the Infection of this euill will say no more but doe humbly implore for my selfe and all the Israel of God more wise humble contrite and thankefull hearts in obseruing his

father in diuers places Psal 18.2 The Lord is my fortresse and my refuge and in the 32.7 Thou art my secret place and compassest me about with ioyfull deliuerance and so Psal 94.22 This is also the confession of the sonne in this place and of all the Saints of God vnto whose confessions I referre you as they are set down by the holy Ghost in the booke of God Thirdly the word runneth implieth as much which giueth me entrance to the second point opening vnto vs the feet which we need to goe vnto this place the which if ye are desirous to know The feet to carry vs thither they are two in number Faith and Praier Faith the first for if by faith we stand 2. Cor. 1 24. by faith we may also goe to the Lord who is faithfull Now how could we goe vnto him by the feete of prayer if wee did not beleeue in him Rom. 10.14 The second is prayer a spirituall legge to beare vs thither noted by Salomon making mention of running by Ionah speaking of comming Chap. 2 ver 7. And my prayer came vnto thee in thine holy temple By the Apostle when he speaketh of going let vs therefore goe vnto the throne of grace Heb. 4.16 Lastly by the holy Ghost vsing this word Climbing Apoc. 8.4 Both the name of the place which is appointed for vs to goe vnto and the spirituall legs which the Lord hath giuen vs to carry vs thither doe preach vnto the sonnes of men the admirable goodnes mercy of the Lord toward them In this world we are as pilgrims Psal 119. hauing here no continuing Citie Heb. 13.14 and while we are at home in the body wee are absent from the Lord 2. Cor. 5.6 In which pilgrimage Many are the troubles of the righteous Psal 34. O the great goodnes of the Lord then that hee hath giuen vs feete to come vnto him and made himsefe a place of refuge for vs in all our troubles which goodnesse is comfortable vnto the faithfull for as it is a comfort vnto the pilgrim shepheard or souldier to haue in the heate of the day a place of refuge to refresh their wearied members So likewise what a comfort is it for you O afflicted soules in the heat of your afflictions to haue the name of Iehouah for a sacred Sanctuarie the Lord is not like vnto the Princes of the earth who desire not to be molested with the requests of their distressed subiects It is a ioy to the wearied student that he may sometime come home to his fathers house recreate himselfe Into this world the Lord hath sent vs as in an Vniuersitie which although it is farre off from our fathers house yet the Lord hath giuen vs spirituall feet by which in a moment wee can ascend vnto our fathers house and recreate there our wearied spirits This world is a waste desart if wee neede any thing here are the legges by which speedily we may runne to this place and prouide our selues If the Lord hath cast vs downe vpon our beds and that wee cannot vse the feet of our bodies behold he hath giuen vs other feet to vse in stead of these King Ezekiah visited with the plague could not vse the feet of the flesh but with the feet of the spirit went vnto this place known vnto him by the name of Iehouah Ionah is locked vp in a prison in the belly of the Whale the Lords prison and cannot stirre himselfe and yet by the vertue of these feet out of the depth he ascendeth to the holy temple of Iehouah The hose to put on Now that these feet may be able to beare vs thither and that they may not faile vs in our voyage they must put on the hose of faith and as the Apostle speaketh our feet must be shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace And as the feet to that Image of Daniel were part of yron Eph 6 15. part of clay which the Prophet expoundeth partly strong partly weake or broken Dan 2 42. So the feet of our prayers are according to the hosen wherewith they are couered if they put on feare and distrustfulnesse they will be shiuering and sinking downeward of clay weake and impotent if they put on faith and confidence in the mercies of God they will be feet of yron strong stable and firme keeping vs vpright and will carrie vs to the very throne of grace A dirction to know the way Further as they that depart into the Countrey if they know not the way to the place whereunto they goe must haue a guide or a direction because they should not erre So in the going to this place because there are so many false guides and directions the Lord himselfe hath giuen vs a Card of direction to lead vs thereunto the witnesse of his holy word written and sealed that can neuer deceiue vs. As the fierie pillar in the desart shewed the way vnto the Israelites So this word of the Lord is a fierie pillar vnto vs in the darke desart of this world to shew vs the way to that heauenly Canaan it is the lanthorne vnto our feete and a light to our pathes Luk. 12.35 Psal 105. and therefore according to the direction of our Sauiour Let our loynes be girded and let vs beare in our hands this shining light 4 The right or interest which the faithfull haue to this place Fourthly to go to this place it is necessarie to know what right or interest we haue in it In the places whereunto men betake their selues in the time of plague either they haue some right or interest there because they are their owne or because they haue some friends or acquaintance there that will receiue them or lastly because they haue either hired or purchased a house So likewise vnto the name of Iehouah the place where we ought to goe in the time of plague as also at all other times we haue a speciall right and interest First because it is our owne for he is our God and our Lord not by nature but by gift and donation Secondly there we haue acquaintance and our bestfriends God our father Christ our brother the holy Ghost our comforter Thirdly because we haue purchased it not we our selues by corruptible gold or by our merites but Christ for vs by his precious blood hath obtained this place of refuge for vs in our troubles Dauid 1. Chro. 21.17 in his prayer sheweth vpon what right and encouragement in the time of plague he went to this place O Lord my God I beseech thee c. it was then because the Lord was his God he had a particular feeling of the loue of God toward him and knew him to be his God for hee had had some experience of deliuerance The reason why we must haue this right is because being infected with the plague of sinne we should not be receiued In the Countrie they will not receiue those

are not once mindfull of them but we must as well carrie with vs in our prayers the seruants which are vnder vs as shee that lieth in our bosome And the Oliue plants which are round about our tables Psal 108.3 The Athenians would offer sacrifice but onely for their owne Citie and their neighbours of Chios but wee Christians must pray not onely for the mother Citie but for all the daughters Christ teacheth vs to say Our father c. as if wee all came from one wombe It is a principle both of nature and policie Vis vnita fortior Strength vnited receiueth more strength It holdeth likewise in Diuinitie If the prayer of one righteous person auaileth much the prayer of many righteous shall auaile more If the Syrophenician obtained for her daughter the sute shee made much more the whole Church of England shal obtaine for all her daughters Where two or three be gathered together in his name he is in the midst of them Much rather in the midst of a people in the midst of thousands in whom there is Anima vna cor vnum One soule one heart one tongue as if they were all but one man Lord heale the sores of our land for behold both the mother and the daughters the head and the members doe prostrate our selues before his Maiestie Yee of the sect of Rome diuide not at this time of the plague in your prayers the soule the voyce and language of the Countrey into two places Eliah and his companie praying in one place and with one stile O Lord God of Abraham and yee in another O Baal heale vs Some praying for the life of Dauid and some for the life of Iabin As for vs we will pray for the Lords annoynted our Soueraigne that God may hide Him vnder the shadow of his wings from the noysome pestilence knowing that this is one of the parts of our obedience towards him that we as Constantine the great taught his souldiers to shew their allegiance in nothing more then this should pray for him yea for his royal Consort his hopeful posterity their Families I end this point with the saying of an ancient Fathe● That there ●s no better Guard or Halbards to safegard a Prince than the prayers of the Righteous Before I come to the third branch of this discourse Three rules to be obserued in our going to this place giue leaue Christian Readers to the spirituall Physicians to lay downe three rules which are to be obserued in this our spirituall departure to the name of the Lord. The bodily Physicians touching departure prescribe as is before said three rules Longè citò tarde Goe farre off depart speedily returne slowly The same rules are to be obserued by the righteous 1 Longè First we must flie far not with the prodigall forlorne son in a far Countrey far from the feare of God and thought of death or with Ionah from the presence of the Lord who rideth on the Cherubins can ouertake vs for whither shall I goe Psal 839.9 saith Dauid from thy spirit Or whither shall I flee from thy presence But farre from this world and the earth vnto the holy temple and mountaine vnto heauen which is high aboue the earth as Dauid speaketh Psal 103 11. vnto that place which is called the land of the liuing Secondly flie farre from the plague of sinne and the infected ayre of this world and being come vnto that farre Countrey the Lord of the soyle will receiue you 2. Citò The second rule is flie speedily and deferre not your departure which rule is not in any maner to be omitted it is the counsell of the wise man Iesus Syrach Eccle. 38.9 My sonne faile not in thy sicknesse but pray vnto the Lord and he will make thee whole T is the commandement of the Lord to call vpon him in the time of need Psal 50. Which must be performed with speed according to the example of Dauid Psal 119. I will runne the way of thy Commandements If wee make hast to flie into the Countrey and forget to goe speedily vnto this Sanctuarie it is as Augustine speaketh of another matter Cursus celerrimus praeter viam A swift race besides the way Hast in this matter is praise worthy a man can neuer run too fast that runneth to this place The delay that Elizeus made let me go kisse my Father those shifts in the Gospel Let me first go burie my mother or take leaue of my friends are not admitted in this businesse commune not therfore with flesh blood If in the time of plague we make such haste to depart before we haue ordained our businesse aright or bad our friends farwel How much more ought we to hasten our spiritual voyage While the fal-bridge is let downe let vs make speed to enter Many because they went not far nor made speed to depart haue endangered their bodies but many more because they fled not from the contagion of sin with speed haue endangered their soules therfore as the Apostle speaketh 1. Cor. 9. of another matter so I may say of this going So run that yee may obtaine 3. Tardè The third rule is Returne slowly that is continue where thou art a necessarie rule to be obserued in the going to the name of the Lord. It is the rule of the spirituall Physicians Eph. 6.18 Rom. 12. 1. Thes 5. Pray continually c. As it is prescribed so it hath beene practised Luk. 21.36 the woman of Canaan continued in her prayer and returned not in hast They which are in the Countrey although there bee many things which might mooue them to returne yet for the safetie of their bodies they continue till the plague be ceased So continue in thy prayer by the Lord and be not wearie of wel doing Although three things might haue mooued the Syrophenician to returne the silence of Christ her back-friends and the odious names giuen vnto her yet these discouragements her poore soule digested obtaining both a cure for her daughters infirmitie and a commendation for her faith O woman thou hast wrought a miracle by the preseuerance of thy prayer and hast giuen to thy Sauiour occasion to doe a memorable act conuenient to his nature glorious to his holy name Let vs at this time follow her perseuerance and although the Lord should seeme to be silent for a time yet let vs not draw backe that we may receiue a cure both for our soules and bodies and deserue a commendation both by God and other nations and thereby giue occasion vnto the Lord to shew his omnipotent power in the ceasing of the plague and to doe an act in England conuenient to his nature and glorious to his holy name And as Iacob wrestled with the Angel and would not let him goe vntill he had receiued the blessing So let vs as it were striue with the Lord by our prayers and let him not goe

vntill he haue heard vs in that which we aske of him in this afflicted time Let our prayers be now as the showers of the raine if the first showre faileth of watering the earth sufficiently the second the third or the fourth wil fulfill the thirst thereof Let vs be like vnto the widow Luk. 18. and our importunitie will draw him vnto audience but yet let vs hold a better opinion of the Iudge of the world then of a common vulgar friend It delighted his eares to heare our redoubled obsecrations and he suspendeth our desires in expectation that we should be importunate to craue The bodily Physician cannot away with the importunate patient but God Habak 2.3 King Dauids Physician loueth the importunate prayer more acceptable is to him the end of our prayer then the beginning I would the children of light were as wise in their generation as the wodden Priests 1. Reg. 18. who cried long to Baal yea cut themselues with kniues that they might be heard and what ought not wee then doe to obtaine our suite Let nothing then mooue vs to returne but as the King of the Philistines 1. Sam. 6. though they had Calues at home yet they kept the straight way to Bethshemesh and held one path turning neither to the right nor to the left hand neither euer stood still till they came into the field of Iosuah So in our going to the name of Iehouah the affection of our soules bearing the Arke and coffer of our suite though it hath worldly allurements to draw it backe as the Kine had Calues yet let it in the way to the house of God as they to Bethshemesh hold one path of perseuerance turning neither to the right or left hand with wandring cogitations till it commeth into the field and garden of God and there let it remaine Many heretofore hauing not continued in the Countrey in their hasty returning haue fallen sicke and died So many hauing not continued in this strong bulwarke haue endangered both body and soule And thus much hitherto of the second part The third part containing the houshold stuffe which we must carrie vnto that place There followeth now the third and the last which openeth vnto vs the houshold-stuffe which we must carrie with vs thither noted in the word Righteous As they which goe in the country in the time of plague carrie with them their houshold-stuffe their furniture and those things which are necessarie for their bodies and as Noah entring the Arke carried with him necessaries so likewise in our going to this place we must carrie with vs those things which are necessary for our soules that wee may be receiued by the Lord of that soyle and without which we cannot goe thither There are fiue peeces of spirituall houshold-stuffe which are necessary for vs 1. Repentance noted in the word Righteous The first is Repentance and holines of life for hee that is righteous giueth himself to righteousnes And this furniture carried with him Dauid 2. Sam. 24.11 As they which goe in the country haue their reasons why they carrie with them such and such necessaries So giue me leaue in the opening of this furniture to shew you also the reasons which must moue vs to carie them with vs. As for this first 2. Tim. 2.19 the first reason is the prescriptiō of the spiritual Physicians it is the Apostles precept Let euery one that calleth on the name of Christ depart from iniquitie The second is that we may be receiued for the righteous Lord l●ueth righteousnesse his countenance doth behold the iust Psal 11.7 His eyes are vpon the righteous and his eares open to their cry but his face is against them that doe euill Psal 66.18 to cut off their remembrance from the earth Psal 34.15.16 If I regarde wickednesse in my heart saith Dauid the Lord will not heare me For as Salomon testifieth the Lord is farre off from the wicked but he heareth the prayer of the righteous Prou. 15.29 Draw therefore neere to God and he will draw neere to you cleanse your handes ye sinners and purge your hearts ye wauering minded Prou. 28.9 Iam. 4.8.9 The third is that the bodily plague may cease for how dare we approach vnto the Lord to craue that it might be remooued and yet carie with vs the inward cause thereof let the Physicians maxime heere preuaile remooue the cause that the effect may cease Let vs not as the sonnes of Iacob bring into the presence of our father Psal 59. the garment of Ioseph which we our selues haue be blooded As Aaron could not come before the Lord before he was washed so let vs not go vnto him before we haue cleansed our selues from infection of the soule And as Iacob Gen. 42. exhorted his sonnes when they were going to Ioseph carry with you the best fruits of the land and giue them him so let vs in our going to the true Ioseph Iesus Christ carrie with vs the best fruites of our hearts to offer vp the sacrifice of our prayers leauing our corrupt affections as Abraham left behinde him at the foot of the hil his asses I conclude this first point with the saying of Chrysostome as in a garland it is not enough that the flowers be pure and cleane but the hand also which handleth them so it is not sufficient that the words of our prayers be holy but the heart also which conceiueth them 2. Faith The second piece of houshold-stuffe Faith for the righteous is also hee that beleeueth in Christ and is righteous through the righteousnes of Christ the righteous 1. Sam. 14. This furniture carried Dauid with him for as hee had a desire of health and remission of his sinne so hee had also a stedfast faith and confidence that it should be forgiuen him This persuasion of deliuerance and hope of obtaining we must haue with vs enterteining it in our hearts The reasons are first the prescription of the spirituall Physicians it is the Apostles precept Iam. 1.6 Let him aske in faith and wauer not And in the fourth to the Heb. 16. that we should goe boldely to the throne of grace drawing neere vnto him with a true heart in assurance of faith Heb. 10.22 casting not away that confidence which hath recompence of reward Vers 35. t is the counsaile of Christ Mar. 11.24 Secondly carrie it with thee that thou maist receiue that for which thou goest vnto him faithfully Psal 145.18 And whatsoeuer yee shall aske in prayer if yee beleeue yee shall receiue it Math. 21.22 Without this there is no going thither Rom. 10.14 But as righteousnes and trueth kisse each other so must prayer and faith which is the ground of prayer first beleeue and then speake this was the order of Dauid Psal 116. this faith will make vs acceptable to the Lord of that soile and make vs finde fauour at his hands Faith is a beautifull queene as highly fauored of

your humble praiers O the admirable force of praier which ouercommeth him who ouercommeth al things I may compare the praiers of the righteous to the haires of Sampson as long as his head was adorned and couered with them hee was in a manner inuincible hee brake the cordes and roapes wherewith he was bound his strength lying in his haire but being shauen his strength went from him he waxed weake and like other men All your strength beloued lieth in your praier as long as you exercise your selues therein you shall be able to resist I say not the tyrants the deuil but the Lords Angel himselfe You haue another enemie the which to resist it is necessarie that you learn to handle the sword of praier this enemie is cruell malicious mightie subtile and industrious his name bewrayeth his nature Sathan by name who is not only in the Citie but followeth you in the country for as a deuouring Lyon he compasseth the earth and there he seeketh to make you forget the Lord and the affliction of Ioseph to sticke to the creature forget the Creator to withstand this Enemie and his fierie darts let this be your continuall Exercise Imitate the industrious wrestlers who to east downe another first fall downe themselues so to ouerthrow this enemy who seeketh in the Countrey to ouerthrow you cast downe your selues by humble prayer and fasting that in that place you may triumph ouer him who thought to triumph ouer you To end beloued to you all I speake together you that are in the Citie enter this Towre you that are cast downe vpon your beddes vse the aide of this friend you that are departed let this be your pastime that we altogether may be preserued from the deluge and the waters may decrease more and more till they be dried vp that being decreased we may offer the sacrifice of thankesgiuing as Noah offered vnto the Lord after the floud But let vs not be like vnto the sea-sicke who onely are weake lament and cry as long as they are in the tempest and when they begin to smell the ayre and are gone out of the ship they forget both their sicknesse and their deliuerance Gen. 28. ● But rather as Iacob ye that are departed flying to heauen the remembrance of his countrey being sweet made an excellent vow and prayer that if hee came againe to his fathers house in safetie the Lord should be his God and that he would giue vnto the Lord the tenth of all he had so likewise ye that are departed or to depart from your Mother Citie as Iacob from his fathers house the remembrance thereof being sweet to you as I know it is make the vow and prayer of Iacob that when the Lord bring you home againe in safety that hee shall be your God and that yee will serue him with more zeale and feruencie then ye haue done before further that ye will if not the tenth yet some part of your goods bestow vpon the Lord in his poore members Let the Apostles words be the conclusion 2 Pet. 3.17.18 Yee therefore beloued seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye be also lead away with the errour of the wicked but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and for euermore Amen A zealous Prayer in time of the Plague to be vsed by all Londoners that are fled from the Citie and all others that are sensible of the Cities Calamitie wheresoeuer O LORD GOD our onely helper and Defender who amongst all other Euils hast promised to deliuer thy People from the noysome Pestilence Wee beseech thee take this thy heauy Plague away from vs and especially withhold thy hand from off the Citie of LONDON the Metropolis of this Kingdome where thy Name is daily called vpon And let our humble Supplications which at this time vpon our knees wee make vnto thee in the name of CHRIST IESVS procure our happy Release and appease thy Wrath which wee haue iustly procured against vs through sinne Lord we being heartily sorry for our sinnes fully purposing by the assistance of thy holy Spirit to amend our liues doe humbly intreat thee to haue mercy vpon vs to take away this plague from vs and not to suffer vs to perish after so miserable a sort We thanke thee O Lord that thou hast not left vs altogether comfortlesse nor cast vs off without hope but hast somewhat withdrawne thy heauy hand and spared many of vs we pray thee to continue thy fauour daily more and more towards vs to deale with vs in Mercy not in Iustice to blesse vs and all those that depend on vs To set thy sauing Marke vpon our houses as thou diddest for the Israelites in Aegypt To giue order to the Destroyer that he hurt vs not to put thy strength to our Medicines to let thy good blessing make the preseruatiues of Physicians effectuall and to make our shifting places for more securitie profitable vnto vs. Giue vs grace O Lord not to trust too much on outward meanes but onely on thy Mercy Protect vs alwaies in all our waies haue pittie vpon our distressed Brethren and Sisters whether in London or else where Comfort the desolate Widow prouide for all Orphanes and Fatherlesse Children gather vs together againe that by these meanes are dispersed Send vs Health Peace with men vpon Earth and peace of Conscience towards thee through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen In the Visitation Anno 1603. Mr. Henry Holland of pious memorie published a booke entituled Spirituall Preseruatiues against the Pestilence Whereunto was annexed An Admonition concerning the vse of Physick and all naturall helpes which the Lord may blesse for our good as in other maladies so in the Pestilence Which booke being worne out of Print the Admontion is here added for the vse and benefit of vs now liuing SAint Iames addeth that after the former spirituall comforts the Elders of his time did annoint the sicke with oyle of the name of the Lord euen as our Sauiour had before appointed and his Disciples practised in their miraculous cures Mark 6. The gift of healing the Apostle speaketh of 1. Cor. 12.30 Shewing it to be a peculiar gift are all doers of miracles haue all the gifts of healing And it ceassed in the Church when the Gospell was sufficiently confirmed with miracles euen anon after the Apostles Prophets and Euangelists had finished and ended their worke and when their time was expired Now then the gift ceassing it is madnesse to retaine still the time which went with the gift that is this annointing or aneiling and more madnesse to make a Sacrament of it as Antichrist hath done most extreame madnes to giue it vnto them only which are a dying which was wont to be giuen to such as did recouer health againe Wherefore as the holy Visitors did then first vse their spirituall exercise which is left for vs to practise