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your selves for this sinful land for this distressed Town 2. Disingage your affections more resolvedly from the world you see the vanity of it daily you have fresh experiences of the uncertainty of all creature comforts let your hearts be taken off from them even whilest you do possess them and be ready to part with them 3. Act Faith more strongly and trust on God when the world fails you 4. Walk more warily and strictly in your lives throw not away your time so vainly as heretofore be more sober and watchful minding the welfare of your own souls and calling upon others to serve God and credit the Christian Religion by a holy life Act to the utmost of your power in the place God hath set you be not weary in well doing for in due season you shall reap if you faint not And lastly to draw to a conclusion when it shall please God in much mercy to remove the present Plague and judgment from this Town remember that you faithfully keep those vows and promises which you made unto God in the day of your fears and distresses Call upon me saith God in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie m● See then that you glorifie God by walking answerably to the mercies and deliverances vouchsafed to you Vow and pay unto the Lord your God When you ate taken out of the Furnace of affliction do not return to your former hardness and inflexibleness If you have laid aside your sins in your affliction do not afterwards take them up again when the affliction is removed Do not as Pharaoh did who cryed out to have the Plagues taken away and withal acknowledged his sin and asked forgiveness and made large promises of amendment but when his request was granted he hardned his heart and returned to his former wickedness 'T was a bad requital Noah made for his escaping the flood to be drowned afterwards in wine 'T will be sad for thee if thy resolutions of living well end at last in forgetfulness of God and dishonouring of his Name by by a most scandalous life Think of it well then and be sincere and cordial in thy purposes and if with Hezekiah thou hast years added to thy life add likewise to thy promises and resolves a holy and blameless conversation If God shall in love to thy soul deliver it from the pit of corruption do thou shew thy self thankful unto him by walking in newness of life If God shall bring thee out into a wealthy place then pay the vows which thy lips have uttered and thy mouth hath spoken when thou wast in trouble If the Lord hath heard thy voice and supplications when the sorrows of death compassed thee and thou d●dst finde trouble and sorrow if he hath delivered thy soul from death thine eyes from tears and thy feet from falling break forth into the Psalmists professions of love and duty to God for his deliverance I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thansgiving I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Of the ten Lepers which were healed by our Saviour there was but one of them returned to give thanks unto Him We are greedy of mercies but how backward are we to acknowledg the receipt of them and to walk worthy of them But let us now at length bethink our selves of our duty and resolve to put our resolutions into action Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee This was the advice of that great Spiritual Physitian thus runs his Bill for that man whom he had formerly healed of a bodily disease Oh! let us have a care of a Relapse for that will prove unspeakably dangerous and destructive to us 'T was a sad aggravation of the Israelites sins acknowledged by the Levites in their Solemn Confession that after they had rest they did evil again before God Sins committed after great mercies are of a Crimson dye and are beyond measure sinful these do cause the fullest vials of Gods wrath to be poured down upon us if there be any sins that escape punishment to be sure these are not they as it follows in that place before-named Therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies Those Cities Towns and Families which are or shall be delivered from the noisom Pestilence may very fitly take up the words of Ezra After all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass seeing that thou our God hast punished us less then our iniquities deserve and hast given us such d●liverance as this should we again break thy Commandments and joyn in assinity with the people of these abominations wouldst thou not be angry with us till thou hast consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor ●scaping Yea the Rod shall go about again the severities of Gods vengeance shall over-take us God will lay judgment to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lyes and your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with hell shall not stand when the overslowing scourge shall pass thorow then ye shall be trod●●n down by it from the time that it go●th forth it shall take you for morning by morning it shall pass over by day and by night and it shall be a vexation onely to understand the report for the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon that he may do his work his strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act God will not spare neither will he have pity but he will recompence our ways upon our heads He hath variety of punishments he hath a store-house of judgments he hath a bundle of rods he hath several vials of wrath and he will pour them all out upon an ungrateful faithless and perverse people I will punish you seven times more for your sins and I will bring seven times more Plagues upon you according to your sins Nay this numerous curse is twice more repeated and denounced against those that will not hearken unto God but walk contrary to Him And to shut up all after God had smartly reproved and upbraided the Israelites for their incorrigibleness and reckoned up those several judgments which he had inflicted on them amongst the rest the Pestilence and at the end of every one of them had complained that nevertheless they had not returned unto him Therefore in the close of all says he thus will I do unto thee O Israel namely as thy sins deserve and as I have denounced against thee and because I will do this unto thee PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD O Israel Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS Chap. 9. Vers. 3. Ve●se 37. Psal. 41. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 17. Isai. 1. 5 6. Psal 140. 2 3. James 3 8. Mich 7. 3. Isa. 57. 5. I saiah 57. 20 21. Acts 26. 11. Jer. 50. 38. Prov. 1. 18. Rom. 1. 21. Jer. 4 22. 1 Tim. 4. 2. Rom. 6. 13. Levit. 14. 41. Deut. 32. 5. Jer. 17. 9. Heb. 12. 1. Rom 7. 17. Jer. 13. 23. Isa. 64. 6. Ecclesiastes 9. 18. Mat. 7. 13. Gen. 6. 12. ●os 13. 9. Gen. 39. 9. Prov. 14. 16. Isa. 8. 13. Mat. 10. 28. Ephes. 5. 11 Prov. 4 14 15. Prov. 5. 8. Prov. 6. 29. Psal. 26. 4 5 6 1 Thes 5. 22. Ep. Jud. 23. ● Psal 32. 3 4. Vers. 5. Prov. 28. 13. Isa. 53. 5. Zac. 13. 1. Mal. 4. 2. Acts. 15. 9. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Prov. 6. 21. 22 Heb 4. 12. Act. 22. 37 41. Lam 3. 15. Vers. 19 20 21. Luke 21. 34. Jer. 2. 19. Psal. 119. 120. Psal. 76. 7. Heb. 12. 28 29 Amos. 3 6. Deut. 32. 39. 1 Sam. 2. 6. 1 Chron 21. 12 13. Neh. 9. 33. Jer. 2. 17 19. Isa. 59. 2. Lam. 1. 8. ● Cor. 11. 30. Psal. 103. 3. 2 Sam. 24. 17. Exod. 32. 30 31. 2 Pet. 2. 7. Psal. 119. 136. Phil. 3. 18. James 5. 12. Mat. 5. 34. Josh. 7. 12 13 Josh. ●4 15. Esther 4. 16. 2 Chron. 7. 13 14. Jer. 18. 7 8. Isa. 1. 4 5. ●a● 3. 7. ●ev 6. 9. John 14. 1. Psal. 60. 11. Psal. 34. 15. Psal. 38. 9. Isa. 49. 15. Psal. 27. 10. Heb. 4. 15 16. Mat. 8. 17. Isa. 53. 4. 1 C●r 10. 13. Psal. 7. 24. Psal. 91. 15. ●at 6. 33. ●sal 34. 9. Psal. 84. 11. Habak 2. 4. Habak 3. 17 18 Luke 12. 15. Deut. 32. 13. Dan. 1. 12 13. Psal. 37. 37 38. Psal. 46. 1. Psal. 68. 20. Psal. 41. 3. Psal. 39. 10. James 5. 13. Psal 103. 10. Psal 9. 10. 2 Cor. 1. 10. Isa. 38. 1. Psal. 37. ● 34. Ps●l 9● 11. 1 Cor. 7. 20. B. Iewel Isa. 57. 1 2. Isa. 26. 20. Hos. 13. 14. 2 Kings 19. 37. 2 Chron. 16. 12. Isa. 26. 3 4. Jer. 9. 1. Amos 6. 1 3 4 5 6. vers 7. Ephes. 5. 16. Eccle. 9. 10. 2 Pet. 3. 11. Gal. 6. 9. Psal 50. 15. Psal. 76. 11. Psal. 66. 12 13 14. P●●● 6. 9 12 13 14 17 18. John 5. 14. Neh. 9. 28. Ezra 9. 13 14 Isa. 28. 17 18 19 21. Levit. 26. 18 21 24 28. Amos 4. 12. 1 Tim. 1. 17.

THE PLAGUE OF THE HEART Its Nature and Quality Original and Causes Signs and Symptoms Prevention and Cure WITH Directions for our behaviour under the present Judgement and Plague of the Almighty By JOHN EDWARDS Minister of Trinity Parish in Cambridge CAMBRIDGE Printed by Iohn Field for Edmund Beechinoe Bookseller in Cambridge 1665. To the Inhabitants of the Town of Cambridge especially to my loving Parishioners of Trinity GRACE PEACE AS you have the Plague of the Body wasting in your streets so you are to take notice of a worser even the Spiritual Plague of your Hearts To this purpose I hope this short Discourse may be somewhat serviceable which even when it shall please God to take away the Bodily Disease may still be usefull to you to guard you against the Spiritual but more poisonous Distemper It is recorded to the honour of Queen Eleanor that when her Royall Husband in the Holy War was wounded with a poisoned Knife by a desperate Saracen the Incomparable Lady sucked the poison out of his Wound A signal instance of her Love to him Sin Beloved is Poison I wish unfeignedly I could by any holy skill and method ease you of that more dangerous Venom at your Hearts O that this Paper might prove a Plaister to draw it It is true I must confess my self one of the meanest and unworthiest of all those Physitians and Guides of Souls that are in the Church I may not be able to treat so successfully of this Spiritual Disease as those worthy persons who are of greater practise and larger experience But I request you that when you make tryal of what is here you would call upon God for a blessing and if you find any good thank God for it not me I will not beg your excuse by telling you these are very slender Preparations for the Press for I chose rather to hasten this little Thing and give it you as it is then to loose the opportunity of doing good by making it better There is nothing in it can render it worthy of the publick view but its seasonableness and your kind acceptance of it Many of the Directions which you will meet with I gave you lately in some of my Sermons which I Preached since the Hand of God hath been heavy upon this Town I must tell you I designed not language but living well It is not required that the Physitians Bill be curiously Penned but that the Medicines be there faithfully prescribed Besides a gaudy and flaunting stile is no ways suitable to these Mournfull Times I have onely this to beg of you that you would be mindfull of me at the Throne of Grace beseeching the Lord that he would crown my Ministery with the conversion salvation of many souls and that he would make me feel the power and influence of those saving Truths upon my own heart which I deliver unto you And my earnest Prayer for you shall be that ye may walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitfull in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God that ye may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God The Great and Good God multiply his Gifts and Graces ●pon you The God of all blessings bless you and yours and keep you from sin and sickness This is the earnest Prayer of Yours in all Christian service J. E. Cambridge Novemb. 11th 1665. THE PLAGUE OF THE HEART 1 KINGS 8. 38. Which shall know every man the Plague of his own heart THese words are part of King Solomons prayer which he made at the dedication of the Temple the drift of the whole is that God would be pleased whensoever any judgements and calamities befall the Israelites to hear their requests and answer their prayers put up in that place and to remove their crosses and forgive their sins This is the design of the Prayer and the Lord appeared to Solomon afterwards assuring him that he had heard this his supplication Here then is a refuge and an escape for penitent sinners against Distresses Plagues and Troubles But every Prayer will not prove effectuall observe therefore the severall Requisites fairly intimated in this Holy Addresse of Solomon namely confessing of Gods name confession of sins and turning from them and then lastly the prayer and supplication must be made by those Israelites which shall know every man the Plague of his own heart Which shall know 1. Take notice of 2. Lament and be sorry for 3. Avert and cure Every man Every one all persons of both sexes of all qualities The Plague 1. The stroke the blow that 's the Originall signification 2. Any great judgement sent by God for the punishing of sin the lashes of the Divine Nemes●s strokes on the estates or bodies of men 3. That signall stroke of God that Plaga Dei that infectious and fatall Disease which we call the Sickness with an Emphasis Thus the word imports but here it is applyed to the Heart 1. The soul and its faculties principally they received a blow a foul knock in Adam and since they are bruised daily by our venturing at the breach of Gods Laws 2. The life and practice consequently for out of the Heart are the issues of Life So that as we consider in the Heart in mans Body its passages apartments and ventricles so here we may well understand both the corrupt principles and evill dispositions of our natures and the vanities and follies of our lives which are but the emanations of the former His own Heart The man is to look into his own breast and see if he find any tokens there he must live at home he hath work to do within doors So that I might present you with an Observation from every word but my design at present is onely to take occasion from these words to treat of the Plague of the Heart for though as I have intimated already the word here used doth not properly and primarily signifie the Disease of the Pestilence yet in the Verse foregoing it is joyned with Sickness whatsoever Plague whatsoever sickness there be and it plainly referrs to the Pestilence or Plague Emphatically so called If there be Pestilence in the Land One Plague suggested another to the good mans thoughts and indeed it is no unusuall thing with pious persons to make even the diseases of their bodies administer matter of devout meditation for the health of their souls there is nothing that they see but it brings God to their thoughts there is nothing in Nature nothing in Providence that they converse with but their sanctified minds can make some good use of a devout Fancy turneth earth into heaven and all secular occurrences into something Divine and Spirituall Did not our Saviour make use of Parabolicall speeches to slip in to the fancies