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
of the Angel of the Lord sent forth in the day cōming swiftly striking suddenly wounding deadly It is the Lyon Adder Dragon No beast for strength cōparable to the Lyon so no disease so deadly as the Plague such as the Aspe biteth are smitten with a numnes throughout all partes and there followeth coldnesse gasping heauinesse in the head sometimes heat and burning in the body Are not such Symptomes in the Plague A Dragon tearing in pieces with all violence sparing none which moued Reuerend Beza being sicke of the Plague at Lausanna not to suffer Caluin Viret those zealous Lights to come to him when they offered it freely least they should bee infected because hee preferred the benefit of Gods Church before his owne particular comforts The Plague is Gods hand Iad Iehouah because the might and power of God is more manifested in this then in other punishments O let not this hand be out of our sight but as that hand that wrote at Balshazars feast and thereupon his countenance was changed his thoughts troubled him the ioynts of his loyns were loosed and his knees smote one against another so let the remembrance of this great late Plague humble vs and make vs mourne but vpon the deliuerance Let vs powre out soules in vs and let vs reioyce It was a sanctified remedie which reuerend M. Greenham vsed being often in his publick Ministery and priuate conference troubled with a suddaine failing in his memorie so as by no means he could recouer himselfe in those things he purposed to speak He would presently groane in his heart and humble his soule vnder the holy hand of God O let vs with groanes lament our dull forgetfulnesse of the great workes of God Socrates complained that after the vse of letters the Art of memorie decayed for the care which before was had in heart and memorie afterward was put in bookes and that which was committed to the minde was after put in trust in writing O let that flying rowle of Gods iudgement which lately hath gone ouer the face of the whole earth and cut off so many and entred into houses and remained in the midst of them and consumed the houses with the timber and the stones euer be in our memorie Bookes not vsed gather dust and memory not imployed will be dull and heauie Sathan desireth to deale with vs as Heringius did with Bamba his predecessour a King of the Gothes who gaue him a draught of drinke whereby he lost his memory Let vs often meditate vpon the workes of God Reade and Pray To reade and not to meditate is vnfruitfull To meditate and not to reade is dangerous for errours To reade and meditate without prayer is hurtfull Let vs not be as Ephraim who knew not that God healed them He it is that hath drawne vs with cords of a man with bands of loue Hee hath taken off the yoke on our iawes He hath layde meate vnto vs He turneth away his anger is as dew vnto vs Hee maketh Israel growe as the Lilly cast forth rootes as Lebanon his branches to spread his beauty to be as the Oliue tree reuiue as the corne and growe as the Vine All the wonders he doth are to confirme our hope raise vp our faith and nourish our loue to him To remember him is like the delight which the Apostles had at the transfiguration of Christ It is sweeter then the hony and the hony-combe It is sweeter then the remembrance of Iosias which was like the composition of the perfume made by the Art of the Apothecarie sweet as musicke at a Banquet of wine If we haue a minde to remember God comfort will be neere in the mouth and in the heart Nothing is more ready then this remembrance It is an easie medicine a speedy cure a pretious cordiall It remoueth sadnesse heauinesse melancholly and bringeth with it ioy in the holy Ghost Let vs then in the day of our gladnesse offer sacrifices for a memoriall before our God In the way of Gods iudgements let vs waite for him Let the desire of our soule be to his name and to the remembrance of him Let vs looke into the perfect law of liberty and continue therein not being forgetfull hearers but doers of the worke that wee may be blessed in our deedes And this is the worke of the day of our whole liues to powre out our soules in vs. O let vs then enter into a couenant to seek the Lord God of our Fathers with all our heart and with all our soule Then hee will set his Tabernacle among vs his soule shall not abhorre vs hee will be our God Then being instructed his soule shall not depart from vs wee shall not be left desolate His soule shall delight in vs To this end are his mercies offered and his deliuerances continued How miraculously hath he of late deliuered many of vs as he did the three children in the fierie furnace when some were constrained to flye from this mountaine of Moriah to the little hill of Hermon as Dauid where they could not looke out but messages of Death and the encrease of the Plague in black bills was brought vnto them when in this Citie the dolefull Bell ringing out there was wringing of hands shrieking in the most places there for a Father here for a Mother there for a Husband here for a Wife there for a Master here for a Seruant there for a Mistresse here for an Handmayde there for Children here for Kinred Wee expected triumphes for the Coronation and alas in stead of these had Funeralls of dead men who being weary of the earth went to triumph in heauen But behold men cried vnto the Lord in their trouble and hee brought them out of their distresses Hee made the storme a calme and the waters were still Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemie and gathered from the East from the West from the North from the South when they wandred Hath the Lord remoued his anger Let vs remoue that which was and is the cause of his anger The Plague of the body being ceased let not SINNE the plague of the soule continue Sweepe your houses from swearing auoyd the company of the vngodly get the inward marke of Gods Spirit by making your Election sure Let your selues bloud of enuie hatred malice couetousnesse and all vncharitablenesse Beware of dogges Infidels as Christ calleth the Gentiles in his speech to the woman which was a Syrophenician by Nation It is not meete to take the childrens bread and to cast it to dogges Beasts without reason forsaking the Creatour to worship the creature Ignorance of the true God and blindnesse of heart were in the Gentiles the Nurses of Infidelity and brochers of Idolatry These make men runne headlong like the swine of the Gergesits into
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