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A05188	Three Christian sermons, made by Lodouike Lauatere, minister of Zuricke in Heluetia, of famine and dearth of victuals: and translated into English, as being verie fit for this time of our dearth: by VV. Barlow Bachelar in Diuinitie; Von thüwre unn hunger dry predigen. English	Lavater, Ludwig, 1527-1586.; Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1596 (1596)	STC 15322; ESTC S108382	49,209	164

examine them parcell meale namely how God hath punished euen some speciall sinnes this way For many thinke that because their sinnes are not notorious and written in their foreheades not grosse sinnes as Idolatry and such like that therefore they deserue not to be in this kinde afflicted But they must know that being subiect naturally to sinne they must also lie open to the common punishment of sinne Let vs see then some particulars for which GOD expresly threateneth this plague by name First Iere. cap. II declareth how his countrey men in Anathoth had forbidden him to preach vpon paine of his life this impudency of theirs God threatneth to reuēge by Famin ver 21.22 Of y e men of Anathots that say Prophecie no more in the name of the Lord that thou die not by our hands Behold saith the Lord I will visit them their sons and their daughters shall die by famine c. Surely this is nothing else but iustice if men set light by the worde of God the precious foode of their soules that hee should keepe from them the necessarie sustenaunce of their bodies See Amos. cap. 8. And whereas many desire to heare the worde to conferre with Preachers and to reade Scriptures but will not obey what they heare this contempt doth God this way punish Iere. 42. When the Citie was sacked by Nabuchodonozor the remnant left behind came to Ieremie to aske of him whether they should go downe into Egypt or no He denied it perswading them the contrarie notwithstanding they woulde needes goe for this dissembling disspight hee threatneth this plague of Famine to pursue them in Egypt The like course do we take daily hearing but stil refusing to obey so that worthie are wee when wee call for our daily bread not be heard by God in that petition 2 The desire of priuate gain prouoketh God his wrath when men preferre the increase of their owne commodities before the glorie of God the propagation of his worde or the publike benefit The Israelites being reduced and brought backe from Babell to their own Country hauing no regard at all to Gods house built setled and furnished their owne houses and mansions both stately and curiously whereupon God threatneth them this plague by Agge ver 4. Is it time for you to dwell in your fieled houses and this house lie waste Now therfore thus saith the Lord Consider your owne wayes in your heartes Yee haue sowne much and bring in little yee eate but yee haue not inough yee drinke but yee are not filled c. verse 9. You looked for much and loe it came to little and when you brought it home I did blow vpon it And why saith the Lorde of Hosts because of mine house that is waste and you run euerie man to his own house Therfore the heauen ouer you stayed it selfe from dewe and the earth staid her fruit c. 3 Periurie and Oppression of the poore is this way also visited as that excellent example 2. Sam. 21. sheweth When the Famine had been in the lande three yeares Dauid asketh of the Lorde where and what the cause was of this so heauie a iudgement aunswere was made that it was for Saule and his bloudie house because hee slue the Gibeonites contrarie to the oath of Iosuah and the Elders Doubtlesse Saule had an excuse and defence for himselfe in this fact which might carrie a pretence before the people of Law and Iustice yet God assureth Dauid till his crueltie were reuenged the Famine should not bee remoued Therfore Dauid asketh the Gibeonites howe they would be satisfied they requiring seuen of Saul his sonnes had them hanged them vp to the Lord and so the Famine ceased 4 This plague also followeth that inexpleble and deuouring gulfe of greedie desire Esay cap. 5. complaining that in the Lords vineyard wild Grapes only and sowre were found among the rest hee saith VVo vnto them that ioyne house to house and lay field to field till there be no place that yee may be placed by your selues in the midst of the earth This is in mine eares saith the Lord of Hoasts Surely many houses shall be desolate euen great and faire without inhabitant For ten akers of Vines shall yeeld one bath and the seede of an homer shall yeeld one ephah Nowe if there bee but small yeelde there must needes be great scarcitie 5 In the 34. of Ieremie we read that the king and the people as it were conspiring togither did according to the Law manumit or set free their men maid seruants but afterward reuoking their former fact they brought them backe againe to their olde slauerie euen for this crueltie the Lord threatneth this plague of Famine Poore folkes and seruants are not to bee intreated cruelly because we must remember that they and we haue one maister in heauen much lesse dealt withall falsely which is a cruelty cloked vnder the name of honest gaine For thus saith the Lord Mich. 6.10 Are yet the treatures of wickednesse in the house of the wicked and the scant measure which is abhominable c. verse 14. Therfore thou shalt eat and not be satisfied verse 15. Thou shalt sow but not reape thou shalt treade thy Oliues but thou shalt not annoynt thee with oyle for the statutes of Omri are kept and all the maner of the house of Ahab c. 6 Pride is also scourged by this distresse as witnesseth 2. Sam. 24. where it is written that Dauid numbred the people and gloried in the multitude of his Subiects for which sinne God appoynted him the choyse of Famin Pestilence or the sword of his enemies because one of these should bee the punishment of his vaunting and vainglorie 7 Drunkennesse and Surfetting are thus also chastized by the testimonie of Ioell who in his first chapter willeth the Drunkards to mourne for there should an huge army come that should make the Vineyards wast and plucke the wine from their mouths as if hee should say ye haue so prouoked God to anger with your Drunkennesse that hereafter yee shall bee content to drinke water albeeit in that Countrey they seldome haue any good water to drinke 8 Againe if Tythes or other Debts wherby either Gods worship should bee maintained or his power relieued be not iustly paid Dearth is the reuenger of that sacriledge As on the contrarie God by Malachy promiseth abundance if these duties be faithfully discharged If wee reade ouer all the Stories from the tymes of the Prophetes to our dayes wee shall finde manie straunge examples of dreadfull Famine but withall wee shall reade that those tymes were most corrupt eyther Prince or Subiect fayling in their seuerall functions and places In the Actes of the Apostles mention is made of a greate Famine when Claudius was Emperour of the Romanes the same which Swetonius and Dion doe both recorde the cause why the worlde was so visited at that tyme was especially for that

And the people to whome these prophets doo prophecie shall be cast out in the streets of Ierusalem because of the Famine and the Sworde The verie same doctrine did Ezechiel preach in Babilon which Ieremy did in Iudah and Ierusalem that for their Idolatrie and greeuous sinnes manie of them should be giuen ouer by God to the Plague and Famine both they which were alreadie and they also which shuld return home afterward In the 4. Chapt. he is more vehement and plaine where God willeth him to pourtray the Cittie of Ierusalem vpon a brick to besiege it the whole time of the siege to eate bread made of wheate barley beanes lentiles millet fetches and that by weight and drinke water by measure and insteede of coales to bake his breade with to take mans or bullockes dung By all which as himselfe interprets it Verse 16 it was meant that the force of nourishing should be taken from the bread and that their bread shuld be giuē them by weight and their water by measure and that they should want fuell necessarie in Ierusalem For whiles Cities are besieged and in defensed places by Garrisons kept if Famin or Dearth be feared all the corne is vsually carried to the Generall and Captaines which serue it out to euerie man by weight and measure and so water also in drie places for in many vplands the souldiers haue bene constrained to fetch their water by force and armes as in Ierusalem the cause of all this he yeeldeth in the ende of the Chapter Bread and water shall faile them and they shall consume away because of their iniquitie The same hee repeateth almost word for word in the 12. Chapter he said Thus saith the Lord Verse 7. Because you haue not walked in my statutes nor kept my iudgements Verse 10. The fathers shall eate their sonnes and the sonnes shall eate their fathers c. This was a iust iudgment of God they contrarie to God his expresse commaundement sacrificed their sonnes to Moloch that is he whom the Gentiles call Saturnus so that this was a punishment by Retaliation a like plague for the like offence And a litle after ver 16. I wil send vpon you the euil Arrowes of Famin which shall be for your destruction and I will increase the Famine vppon you and will breake the staffe of bread By the Arrowes of Famine he meaneth the Canker and Palmer wormes the grashoppers vermin immoderate heat vnseasonable weather and showres as also those walking Vermin those Tempests of a common wealth Monopolists Ingrossers Cornhoorders who had rather the corne should waxe fustie in their garners then to sell it out at a reasonable rate And chap. 6. verse 11. Thus saith the Lorde smite the earth with thy hand and stretch foorth with thy foote and say Alas for al the wicked abhominatiōs of the house of Israel for they shal fall by the sword by the Famine and by the pestilence And in the 7. chap. he againe foretelleth of a great afflictiō to ensue for the abhominable wickednes of the lād VVithout the sword within plague Famin. And a litle after he speaketh vnto Richmen to whom also he threateneth the like punishment who like vnto the wealthy Cormullions of our time increase their wealth by others want some of them abusing the barrennesse of the earth and the Dearth of graine to their owne gaine other feeding faring most riotously whē as the poore did starue most rufully Their siluer and their golde cannot deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lorde God they shall not satisfie their soules neither fill their bowels for this ruine is for their iniquitie Rich men of all others thinke themselues best armed against all daungers that may happen either to soule or bodie Prouer. 10.15 The rich mans goods are his strong cittie that is as souldiers trust to their munition so doo they to their wealth which often failes them for the time may come wherein they may feele the like want which the poore distressed doo whome they so litle regard for in the siege and expugnation of Citties the Rich vsually fare worse then the poore the common souldier forcing them by torture of paine or terror of death to confesse where their wealth lyeth In the fourth Chapter hee threateneth to the hard hearted and impenitent sinners soure plagues Sword Pestilence Famine noysome beastes Of Famine thus he speaketh vers 13. Sonne of man if the land sinne against me by committing a trespasse the Hebrew word signifieth a lie I will stretch out my hand vpon it and will breake the staffe of the bread thereof and will send Famine vpon it and though these three men Noah Daniel Iob were among them they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnesse saith the Lord God The cause why this Prophet Ezechiel vrgeth the people with the threats of this plague more vehemently and hotly then the other Prophets is because the state of the Iewes was then most daungerous no threatenings no warnings woulde mooue them rebellious they were alway and stifnecked therefore he repeateth the oftner this Blow to make it the more to enter into and pearce them and in a fewe words hee compriseth much matter First that God is the efficient cause of Famine the impulsiue or forcing causes their sinnes the maner The bread shall not nourish them the effects Man and beast rich and poore pelly melly shall die Now go we on to the smaller Prophet Hos. cap. 4 makes a long catalogue or beadroule of sinnes for which God chasteneth his people with this affliction Thus hee speaketh The Lorde hath a controuersie with the Inhabitaunts of the lande because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the lande by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring they breake out and bloud toucheth bloud Therefore shall the lande mourne the foules of the heauen the beastes of the fielde and the fishes of the sea shall be taken away And in his ninth Chapter verse 1. Reioyce not ô Israel for ioy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God thou hast loued a rewarde vppon euerie corne floore The floore and the VVinepresse shall not feede them and the new VVine shall faile in her c. Amos cap. 4 vpbraydeth the people who for religions sake went on pilgrimage to Bethel and yet defiled themselues with Idolatry false whorsip telleth them that therfore he will giue them cleannesse of teeth that is they shal not need any Toothpikes to cleanse their teethe for any meat sticking in them because hardly they shuld haue brown bread to chew on By all which places it sufficiently appears that Famin Dearth is sent for the punishment of sinnes especially Atheisme and false worship And so much generally or as we say in the whole lumpe of all the enormious sinnes which are causes of this iudgement now we will single some of them out and