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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15108	A sermo[n] preached at Pawles Crosse on Sunday the thirde of Nouember 1577. in the time of the plague, by T.W.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1578 (1578)	STC 25406; ESTC S111738	33,572	100

it as we doe But as the good Phisition to heale the body doth minister many things agaynst the minde so muche more shoulde we to heale the soule deale playne agaynst the body especially séeing that Quo grauior est causa eo intentior esset cura The cause béeing greter there shuld be better care I pray you sée how he calles the best Beastes héere what are the rest then iudge you and not only vnder Manasses but also vnder Iosias a good king were naughtie Rulers to be found And héere are names of purpose méete for them whatsoeuer other titles they take to them selues As a roring Lion and a hungry Beare so is a wicked Magistrate ouer tho poore people sayth the wise king The prouerb of a slouthful slouen is written in the .22 of the Prouerbs that euer when he should doe any good there is a Lion in the stréete But and it be true in déede that a Lion sittes in iudgement to deuoure whom he shoulde defende then equitie shall haue a colde suite and therfore among many other things it was wisely sayd of Salomon There the common welth doth flourish where the good do beare rule but where the wicked strike the stroke there the godly hide their heades We haue a most mercyfull and gracious prince Elizabeth God in mercy long preserue and keepe hir Amen She is a Lambe and no Lion and where she giues the Lion it is to be wished that in this sense she had many Lions I meane men of courage and valour But as she hath hands ynowe so I pray God she haue many harts and then we shall doe well ynough Héere is the picture of Ierusalem a monstrous body a roring Lions head a rauening Wolues throte a Camels neck a Cormerants hart neuer an eye but starke blinde not a right hande or foote but talants like the Diuell so that you might rightly borrowe the Poets verse to say Monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum And all this is for the crueltie in the Princes the couetousnesse in the Priestes and corruption in the people Suche a foule body was it that frō top to toe there was no whole part from the head to the héele no sound place for from highest to lowest they were all set on couetousnesse And héere I could wishe one property yet of a Lion in all our Rulers They saye the Lion quaketh at the crowing of a Cocke So I pray God that the threatnings of the worde may worke with them and quayle them that the spirite of Elias doubled vpon Elizeus maye bee raysed in Iohn and that suche men may be founde out as méetest messangers for them whiche goe not about the bushe neither are blaunchers but as playne as a packe staffe whiche put them in remembraunce what they are that as the Lyon though he be the King of beastes yet at length is made a pray to small birds and then is that saying veryfied Better is a liue Dogge than a dead Lion. So they although they be greate in authoritie yet at the last they are but a bayte for the small wormes And her Iudges are as Wolues in the euening I wil not stand on the curious distinctiō of these degrées but only shew you some difference of the beasts to whom he resembles thē A Liō prayeth in the day a Wolfe in the night a Lyon catcheth stoute beastes a Wolfe killeth Lambes a Lion takes no lambes as an Eagle takes no flies A quila non capit Muscas If a beast humble himselfe to a Lion he is the lesse cruell but do it to a Wolfe and hee is the more fierce A Wolfe hath a more rauenous nature for though he bee ful of spoyle yet he takes pleasure in the bloud for he thrustes his snoute into the bowels of a lambe rooting and noufling for the hart and therefore in scriptures the enimies of the Church are often called Wolues and for no vnlike qualitie are wicked Iudges here resembled to them Whatsoeuer is rightly done of the magistrate may be sayde to be done of god himself I haue said you are gods Take héede therfore what you do sayd Iosaphat a good captaine when he ordayned Iudges for you execute not the iudgments of men but of God and ther is no vnrighteousnesse with him Sit not with his authoritie then to practise your owne crueltie if you do you haue lost your warrant and it is of your self you are no magistrate but a Wolfe and the widow crie and the fatherlesse wéepe for his ryght the lambe is fallen into the Wolues iawes But the bloud shal crie for vengeāce and neuer cease and reuenge shal be redy neuer sleep for hee that made him shall heare hym Now as that Iudges case is cléere that iudgeth thousands in truth and equity so is his moste grieuous that condemneth but one vniustlye Remember the righteous God that hath no respect of persons but is a iust Iudge remember that Potentes potenter punientur the mightie shal be mightily punished and mercy is graunted to the lower sort but the magistrate shall haue a sore triall Wyl you knowe who hath set you in youre seate that same God that raised iudges vnto Israel 2. Iudg. Uerse 16. Wil you know to what end it is to do away euil from among his people and to iudge thē with iust iudgement Put to your helping hand then in the name of God and let two scales fal from al your eyes that haue to deale in iustice the one is couetousnesse that you may sée right the other is cruelty that you shew no wrōg and as much as you can by clemencye pittie and mercy auoyde the name of Wolues But against the wicked be Lions and spare not as Iethro counselled his son in law Moses to picke out men of courage men that feared God and hated couetousnesse to gouern the people You had néede of stomack and courage and to be Liōs some times for you shal méete wyth diuels else now thē Here is suche cutting and flashing as if men were Oxen and not Christians I thinke the sworde you cary should be able to commaund vppe euery sworde into his sheath or if they cannot rule theyr handes I am sure you haue authoritye for theyr legges I reade in the 4. of Genesis that hee that killed Caine a murtherer should bee punyshed seauen folde I am sorie it is made so light a matter in our time I speake not vnto you to make new lawes I knowe you cannot but to execute olde lawes to bee more exquisite on the tryall of him that hath cutte a throte than of hym that hath cut a purse Oh Lord that a murtherer shoulde finde any one friende in a Christian common weale but of nobles of Iudges of magistrates it were to intollerable a poore théefe packes to Tyborne but a manne kyller a murtherer can shyfte hys legges oute of the shackle and

slippe his necke oute of the haulter In Platoes common welth he that killed one was thought worthy death twice firste for natures duetye secondlye for the life he toke away shal a Ruffyan kil twice in a Christian estate before he can be met with once And here I haue a sute to your honours I wyll not spare to speake howsoeuer I speede I shall discharge my conscience yet and the burden shal be yours it is to renewe my petition whiche once I made to your predicessor for poore condemned prisoners make no such poste hast I beséech you that you dāger their soules with their bodies They are cut off to saue their soule but you make no care of that take héede that you haue not as short a warning and a more sodayne departing your selues God hath giuen you faire warning by many late and lamentable examples euen of your own Cloke I discommend not due execution of Iustice it is no piece of my meaning but mercy is alwayes better than Sacrifice Wherefore let it euer ioyne with your iustice or else there is no difference betwéene damning condemning on your part the olde Poetes had a blind saying Dimittamte orco I le sende thée to hel when anye man was don to death but Christiās haue a better phrase I trow I truste they go to heauē Wel to draw toward a conclusion with you which are our honorable gouernour and Maior of this Citie you must remember that you are chosen in the time of a plague and therfore in the time of sinne you are come to a sicke a sore citie you must therfore play both the Phisition and Surgeon you muste awake out of Endimions sleepe and thrust dilligently your sword of iustice in to launce out all corruption and bagage which is gathered in the bowels we stoppe not our nose so at the plague as the Lord doth stoppe hys nose at our sinne the stincke of London is come vp before hym God hath a worke to doe by you do not the Lordes worke negligently for feare of a curse Tully truely sayde Magistratus virumindicat autoritie doth declare a man whether he Loue superstition or religion whether he loue Iustice or brybes whether he be inclined to mercy or to crueltie whether he be couetous or liberal and if hee be a Liō his pawes or if he be a Wolf his iawes wil soone bewray him the cry of the Orphane oppressed wil Hunte him and finde him out It cōmes to my minde those three ships sēt to Mar. Aurelius Emperor of Rome out of Spain as I remēber full fraught with vagabōds loiterers théeues Iuglers Iesters in a letter he wrote that these were but the maisters of this misrule and the captain Roges but for the scholers themselues three hundered ships would not suffise To thys end I tell you thys bycause wee haue more than thrée shippes ful by oddes I wyl not saye the Cittie is ful but sure adulterers and Harlottes théeues and Uacaboundes do swarme in most places of the same and no marueyle for Dicing houses Daunsing schooles bowling-aleyes Alehouses are almoste lawlesse in euery place me thinkes the policye were as good to note on those places LORD HAVE MERCIE VPON VS as on infected houses more néede to euen at this time if there were due searche you shoulde finde my words true Seruice or Sermon all is one to them I leaue to tell the ribaldrie contempte of God and of good order blasphemy and vilanous spéeches amongst them that a mā would take thē to bee rather Diuels than Christians You cannot haue all of me nowe giue eare to other when they come I beséeche you and in anye case despise not the leaste that the Lorde doeth sende so shall you shewe in youre yeares account that you haue kepte your conscience vnwounded vnburdened as Samuels was before the Lorde you may chaunce els to get such spottes and scarres in this yéere as will not out agayne before the Iudgement daye the which the Lorde God forbid Amen And as for thée London I must néeds say thou art déepe in debte double and treble daunger doth enuiron thée round about and compasse thée in on euery side for thou dost ouerflowe with sinne Euen as a Cundit● sprouteth out water and as the Sea fometh with myre and grauell So thou doste discouer thine owne shame Prodigalitie pride deceite and fraud and all the rest it was first began in thée Thou hast infected both Court and Countrey and theyr bloude will be required at thy hands Greate néede haue we therefore my brethren by our tymely repentaunce to turne vnto the Lorde that as by our example we haue fetcht them in so by our generall lamentation mourning we may bring them out again Who cā tell whether the Lord will yet haue cōpassion vpon vs or no and staye the thing that is concluded agaynst vs It was one of the last offers that god made to Israell when he sayd Amende or I will withdraw my hart from thée Now if in his rage he shall sweare that we shall not enter into his rest and in his anger he shall withdrawe his countenaunce which hath béene our continuaunce then soone shall fearefulnesse the pitte and the snare come vpon vs and all them that dwell in the worlde The Lord turne our harts rather vnto him worke in vs timely repentance before it be too late make vs more obedient to his holy worde that we maye serue him more truely in holynesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life that this miserable and paynefull life béeing passed ouer ended once we may receiue an eternall and euerlasting lyfe which is the onely purchase of Iesus Christ our onely redeemer and sauiour to whom with the father and the holy ghost be al glorie prayse and power for nowe and euermore Amen Gal. 4. Math. 6. Acts. 4. Math. 10. For it vv●● extraordinarye Peter is not chiefe Apostle then in respect of his Apostleship Luke 10. Verse 16 Mat. 9. Verse 37. Text. Zophony ● Amos. 3. verse 8. Ionas 3. verse 5. Exodus 9.10 Chap. Ioel. 2. verse 13. VVhatsoeuer a man sovveth that shall he reape Galath 6. verse 7. As Adam and Cayne did Eccle. 3. verse 1. Iohn 1. Where the Philosopher endes the Phisition begyns and after the Phisition commes the Diuine when senses and all are gone Heb. 6. verse 18. Psal. 33 Daniel 3 verse 25 Psal. 14. Daniel 6 Math. 13 Luk. 16. verse 16. Obiection Solut. 1. Esdr. 9 Iohn 3 verse 4 1 Cor. 1 v●rse 14 ●sal 51 Obiection Solut. Math. 1 Thre cause● why Christ is called the rightuous braunch of Dau●d Englands happinesse Psal. 45. Obiection Amos. 5. Couetous Atheists but if of any side of Papists for it is moste gainefull For his ovvne cōscience is against him Iames. 4. verse 17. So playde Peter vvhē he sayde he vvould die before deny christ Math. 26. verse 35. That is svvallovv any iote of hir pestilēt doctrine Papistes proue traytors apace Math. 10. verse 33. Iohn 4. verse 24. Psalm 16. Gods seruice requireth a vvhole and perfect mā And yet he cōmaunded them Psalm 50. verse 16. 2. Timot. 3. Math. 7. verse 22. Hebr. 6. verse 7. Vnfrui●tfull earth vvithout vvater so vnfruictfull man vvithout the vvorde Esa. 58. verse 4. And therefore not vvithout stealing Ievves Sabboth Saterday Christians Sonday Ephes. 5. An olde reason Luke 18. verse 8. Psalme 62. verse 10. Let him that stole steale no more Ephes. 4. verse 38. 1. Tim. 6. verse 10. Ieremy 5. 1. Peter 1. verse 18. Prouerbs 4. ver●● 2● Rom 6. Gen. 6. Math. 10. verse 24. Gen. 7. Gen. 21. ● Kings 21. verse 19. Miche 3. verse 10. Esay 59. verse 5. Collos. 4. verse 1. Esay 3. verse 15. Math. 24. verse 12. Prouer. 25. verse 20. Math. 9. verse 44. Iohn 15. verse 12. Math. 25. verse 35. Marc. 10. verse 21. Iames. 5. Obiect Solut. Amos. 9. verse 4. Amos. 6. verse 6. Luke 16. verse 19. Math. 26. verse 11. The poore shall you haue alvvay vvith you but not mee Ierem. 2. verse ● Luke 11. verse 28. Math. 8. verse 22. Psalm 119. Psalm 10. Reu. 22. Esay 1. verse 2. Gen. 18. verse 19. Ionas 4 Bycause they are reprobate Reu. 3. verse 19. Heb. 12. verse 6.7.8 Esay 1. verse 3. Verse 5. 1. Chron. 21. Verse 13. Psalme 14. Psalme 7. Luke 10. verse 41. God forbidde Math. 6. A long liuing and a short life Though our Landlord be on earth yet our lyfe Lord is in Heauen L●ke 22. verse 20. Esa. 31. Popery ioyneth vvith Sorcery 1. Sam. 2● Deut. 18. verse 10. A prayer Iere. 11. ● Vers. 28. Iames. 4● vers 8. Iohn 4. V●●se 16 Prou. 28 vers 15. Prou. 22. Verse 13. God is our keeper For both hir Magistrates and Ministers vvere corrupt Iere. 6. vers 13. 2. Cro 1● Ecclesi 4. Verse 6. VVisd 6. Verse 9. De●tr 16. and. 19. Exo. 18. Verse 21. Mark these three notes you that are Magi●●rates Gene. 4. Verse 15. For as the body is more vvorth than raiment so the life is more precious th●● liuing Iere. 6. Verse 7. Iere. 6. vers ● Esai 24. IMPRINTED AT London by Frauncis Coldocke Anno Dom. 1578. Februarij 10.