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A01346	A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1626 (1626)	STC 11467; ESTC S102824	32,124	70

melt into all pleasure and cast off the yoake of all obedience but let stormes and frownes seaze on him then hee will say Come and let vs returne vnto the Lord for he hath spoyled vs and he will heale vs he hath wounded vs and he will binde vs vp I doubt not but there are many who heretofore haue beene wilde like the vntamed Heifer that the Lord hath by this rod of chasti●ement reduced home and made them his who had they not thus suffered perierant nis● perijssent had they not lost their liues or their healths had lost their soules And thrice woe to that soule that shall not make this vse of this his preseruation and of Gods correction It is a fearefull complaint that God hath in the second of Ier. I haue smitten their children and they haue receiued no correction that heart must needs bee seared as with an hot Iron that is not sensible of these stripes and wee cannot but iudge him deliuered vp to a reprobate sense that is not mollified at these afflictions What can preuaile when neither Mercy nor Iudgement are auailable They were wont to enq●ire of Abel saith that mother in Israel to Ioab when hee besieged that Citie before they destroy it so doth God the grand Captaine of Heauen and Earth as Tamberlaine was wont to doe first hang out his white flagge to any Citie hee enuironed his proffer of peace and mercy if they will yeeld then the red Flagge of threatnings yet so as if yet they would submit there was hope but lastly the blacke Flagge was displayed and then no way but death and destruction if he preuailed so doth God first offer mercy which if abused then he threatens and long it is before hee strikes hee was 120. yeares before he smote the old world if those preuaile not then he strikes but so gently as it shall but bee a taste as it were of what hee can doe which if that also be in vaine Immedicabile vulnus ense recidendum that man is incurable and must needs be cut off Wee haue had so long so large so flourishing a time of peace as our G●shen hath beene as it were the enuy of all the Nations of the world besides this little fleece of ours hath beene dry when all the earth round about vs hath beene ouerwhelmed with the Deluge and Inundation of Warre Germany groaning vnder persecution France encumbred with her fatall infelicity Ciuil wars Italy burdened with the tyrannie of Antichrist Spaine ambitiously desiring to ●athom all like to keepe nothing The Hollanders continually at warre onely we by the blessing of our God and the happy meanes of our late Soueraigne of euer blessed memory haue sit vnder our Vines and Fig-trees But yet this peace hauing bred corruption we haue had light and small punishments many times inflicted by Water by Fire and by the Pestilence and all but to reclaime vs which if we doe not seriously lay to heart the sable flagge will be displayed Our Candle will bee extinguishe a night will come an eternall night of destruction both of body and soule But such was our happinesse as in the time of our generall sufferings wee had a generall sorrow commanded a Fast was proclaimed by the King and his Nobles as it was at Niniueh and wee all wept and mourned and prayed and cryed vnto the Lord and I hope and dare say by the happy effect it was serious and in earnest with these in my Text we cryed and wee are deliuered Annah in a part of her song tells vs that it is the wont of the wicked in the time of Affliction to lay their hands vpon their mouthes and hearts too they fret with indignation and repine to themselues letting neither voyce nor groane come forth nor any token of submission to him that hath cast them downe But saith St. Gregory Tolerare odisse non tam virtus mansuetudinis quàm velamentum furoris which because they dare not vtter Murmura tunc secum ●abiosa silentia rodunt they bite the lippe with an impatient silence which comes from no other but from the Diuell himselfe as Tertullian witnesseth Impatientiae natales inipso diabol● deprehendo but here as there was outward smart and inward sorrow so there was a vocall expression of it no way giuing any discontent as that King said this euill commeth of the Lord why should I waite any more vpon him but onely a vociseration and hearty inuocation for mercy In the great Famine of Samaria a woman came and cryed vnto the King Helpe my Lord ô King the King wisely and soundly replyed How should I helpe with the Barne or with the Wine-presse seeing the Lord denies vs In vaine shall we goe to Gilead for Balme to the Apothecaries for Oyntment to Physitions for receipts to any for helpe vnlesse withall wee cry vnto the Lord it is not the plaister of Figges nor bathing in Iordane nor washing in the Poole of Bethesda that will here cure but onely seeking to the Lord and yet the other are not to be neglected Asa was not condemned for seeking to Phisitions but because he neglected the Lord. Phisitions are honourable and the act of the Apothecary is to bee made vse of Wherefore hath God infused vertue into Plants and Mettals but to be vsed Did not he command Hesekiah's Plaister And was not Naman willed to wash they are onely here condemned that altogether neglect the Lord and onely rely vpon these who can doe nothing without him Nec Deus oratur nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit Paul may Plant and Apollos may in their kinde water Phisitions may prescribe and Apothecaries may apply but our health onely comes from aboue Virtus est in herbis plus gemmis maxima verbis there may and there is power and efficacie in Herbes and Mettals but Prayer is the chiefe and principall efficient Pray vnto the Lord in thy sicknesse saith the Son of Syrach and he will make thee whole And it is St. Iames his counsell if any bee sicke let him send for the Elders of the Church and let them pray ouer him and so the prayer of the faithfull shall saue the sicke and the Lord shall raise him vp A reall experience whereof these men had for no sooner did they cry vnto the Lord but he deliuereth them out of their distresse Hee sent his Word c. I remember a certaine speech by Bias vsed in iest in that earnest when certaine Marriners were in distresse and were euery one like those in Ionas crying vpon his God sile●e ne audiant dij vos hac preterire The Kings of Israel say the seruants of Benhadad are mercifull Kings I am sure the God of Israel is a mercifull God who will heare the vnfeigned cry of the most wicked in their afflictions As the cold of Snow in the time of Haruest so is a faithfull messenger to him that