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A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

Yet this my infirmitie doth yet alwayes not absolutely to death nor doth it always infect to sicknesse Deo invante for we see that your Searchers Keepers Sextons Bearers are the seldomest taken with it Therefore the begining of this my infirmitie being invisible the procession doubtful the destroying selective as it were Morbus rationalis a disease that did cull out of discourse or reason men appointed to die and not always infect the next adjacent places my learned and reverend so●res of former times in my affliction divinely have called for Metaphysical perfumes So did Mr. Fenton in his spiritual perfume as if Kitchin-fire did as much good to purge away this disease as our pots of Frankincense doth in my streets when the wind blows it all to one end And that we might have recourse to God above though not without outward meanes another of my well reputed Sonnes counts no phantasie that print as it were of a blow on some The sores we may know from whence they are the tokens ordinarily we discern but from whence is this This seems to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Plaga a blow indeed so termed Rev. 16.9 All these doth but shew us whom first and mainly to beleeve upon the God of spirits who can call back his Serjeants and withdraw his Action and forgive our debt and forbear our lives till some other time Yet I feare me all this will not drive my smells on of your nose If stinkes doth it do you think the stinks will be ever the lesse when so many thousand are dead No. And yet you will come to Town then and when here is the more stirre here will be the more stink But why did not my stinks kill you before now Because say you God gave not the Word Why doth not then the most stinking places as the shambles infect first now God hath given the Word Because God wil not have it so you wil say True by the same reason you may be saved here and die there or here when you come back because God will have it so But you will say if it comes not only by such means why happens it upon the Citie rather then the Countrey Because God is ever liberal of favours toward great Congregations his favours are more plentiful more visible and men are more sensible of them And therefore you shall finde the Apostles for the most part dedicating their Epistles to Cities and the Prophets likewise bending their prophesies thereto Now where he is most plentiful in these he is also of his corrections So to Israel no people better fed better taught soundlier whipt And it is most equal that when men abuse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the clear Word of Life they should have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bemudding word of death Secondly it is done to the City for the Countreys example that the Pagi and the Villages round about might tremble and that the pagani thereof might leave off their paganish conversation and stand in awe and sin not which things if they do not though we have the sharp ends of the Rod they may have as heretofore the stumps Mistake me not I do not hope for it I feare it For remember when God afflicted us the last time when we had Ziim had not you Iim When we had the Scritchowle had not you the night Raven When we had the Pestilence had not you the Plague also You had and you did tast of mine infirmity Therefore consider what I have declared of it and use all good medicines but above all medicines take Faith Hope and a good Conscience You shall find them my dear children of more force then the greatest Antidote Remember the promise of God in that 91. Psalm 14 15.16 verses count it precious let it be thy Buckler as it is in the fourth verse Mollerus on that Psalm saith Eos qui certa fide in Deum recumberent tutos ferè à pestis saevitia that those which trust in God shall be free So Mr. Cupper on the same Psalm And St. Chrysostom on the same Psalm saith Securus habitat in terra prolixam vitam inventat He shall dwell secure and find a long life but totum hoc fit per spem saith he True it is for we see som scape fire and sword with boldnesse others overcom their enemies with fortitude and shall not the Quintessence of fortitude the spirit of valour which is confidence in God do much more Doth not godliness profit to all things both to this life and that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 If any one object that godly men die of it it is true doth God deceive their trust in that No. He giveth them life and a better life For God will not be stinted to temporaries by his own children and if he takes one away in this mind I hope he doth him no wrong Some wicked men you will say escape too That is because God will be better then his word to all men that the mouths of all men may be stopped He spares evil men somtime that they may fulfil their sin he takes away the good from the evill to come And this is thy encouragement that if he spares of both sorts why not thee if thou stayest in thy place and necessary calling But thou fearest to die because neither prepared in faith nor profession Therefore I conclude my disease to be sore as to be most infectious yet God can restrain it and though he hath sent out his evil Angel yet I will trust in the good Angel of the Covenant Do you so likewise that you may be partaker of my faith not mine infirmitie and cry O Lord thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another You have seen my infirmitie the nature of it the principal remedy against it What else is to be used in natural cure against natural infection I leave to your learned and grave brothers of Physick I have prescribed that which never failed Probatum est Jam. 5.17 But this is not all my trouble for my sorrows are increased like my sinnes sicknesse hath consumed my substance and I may justly say with David I am weak and poor My poverty lieth in being void of Trading Money Victual All which I am well nigh destitute of at this time This I confesse to be justly inflicted on me for my pride with which I have sought to out face-Heaven My tinckling feet and my tiptoe pace my horned Tyaraes and crisped curled locks shinne-pride and shooe pride fullnesse of bread hath made me lift my heel against my Maker I said in my prosperity I should never be moved but thou O Lord hast turned thy face and I am troubled My children have bin so full fed that they have fallen out among themselves the meanest thinking themselves as good as the Magistrate and the mighty refusing to look upon the cause of the mean My Merchants

infectious because they are used to it But if a Christian come from me weary with travaile though he hath no disease yet he is kept out with Bills least his breath should infect their stinking roomes Some of them can keep a Fox in a Coverlet and a W in a Closet whose soul already hath burst forth often with odious soares and Infectious swellings but they can make no shift for a sick Body whose soul would bankrupt them to imitate the patience thereof under Gods hand but they must drop down without commiseration Doe you neither fear God nor man that you are thus insolent If a man dye he must be dragged at a Horse tayle like Hector or drawn with men like Tamberlaine If he live he must lye in sollitude or misery Oh base Heathenisme unheard of Barbarisme I see there is no Tyrant like superstitious opinion If I should give my fury the Bridle I should set such marks on you in this my rage as a Lyonesse robbed of her Whelps would do or send out some Satyrs whose sharpe scourge should make you hide your selves But O God thou hast taught me Patience and I intreat thee if I have offended in this pardon the exuberancy of my passion which swells so high to think on my childrens calamiy aggravated by these mens cruelty I have now played the part of a weak Woman overcom with injurie yet I have not Out-run the Constable for he is in the Countrey But now I must shew these men lest they laugh at my anger and rejoyce at my tribulation that though I am grieved I am not discouraged And to my Children that I love them though I do not without cause reprove them I am not disheartned First because I have hope that this Plague is Gods purge to make me more healthie in soul and bodie In soul for it is good to be afflicted and those whom God loves he chastiseth I hope it is Gods rod not his sword to correct me not to destroy me His fire to purifie not to inflame and consume me And this not without reason for First this course my God hath used heretofore to bring me into the right way Secondly because he hath not given me to slaughter of my enemy nor famine but hath given me hope of the fruits of the earth and hath taken me into his own hands to chastise me and I know with him there is mercy and with my Saviour there is plenteous Redemption Thirdly because he doth it by degrees as so many warnings that I should ask forgivenesse before he strike again when as he might consume me at once Fourthly because he hath left me as yet the pillars of my age to lean on like Jachin and Booz good Ministers as monitors to remember me and good Magistrates as Fathers to provide for me But above all the frontispiece of beautie built upon these pillars a good and gracious King whole heart I know and heare doth pittie my distresse Fiftly I hope it will purge my body from bad humours as vitious persons Nay I know it hath already of abundance and the rest will stand I hope in more awe And again It savours of mercy in that the poor is taken from him that is to strong for him namely this hard world and God hath made more room under me And if I provoke him not farther and draw his punishments out longer by distrusting or presuming or for want of repenting all may turn to my good in an extraordinary measure If my proud flesh were but abated and my plurisie of vaine desires wasted my stinking weeds extirped I know the Lord can heal me in a trice and would too for he wills not the death of sinners and to his children his love never had beginning and therefore can never have ending Some good men are taken away and many lay it not to heart I could not well spare them but only for the Lord here is so few upon the earth But he will take them also least his Children like Prodigals should assume their Portion in this life Therefore despise me not you of Idumea in the Countrey but mark Obediahs Prophecy against them that commiserate not Jacobs affliction And be not thou a rod helping to beate Gods Children least my Heavenly Father afterward to shew his love and ease my griefe throw that rod into the fire of his fury likewise And say not with thy self that my Children brought it to thee for it was begun this year in the Countrey as soon as in the Citie Therefore harden not your hearts but by your timely repentance prepare your selves either to entertaine it or prevent it And howsoever your weaknesse hath prompted you on to use this violence yet because we are Brethren and so may continue in Love and Peace as well as in profession of truth my prayers shall be poured out for your preservation from inward errors and outward evils And you my dear Children wheresoever you are dispersed take not too hainously my reproof since it is just nor reject my Counsel since it is the token of my love I know your hearts are here unlesse your treasures are there Why should they or we be thus separated but rather come together and joyne heart and hand together and help to keep the blowes from one another or else ease the smart of them when they are given by our best charitable endeavours I know if all but the poor had gone God would not have destroyed them all least you should want subjects for your charitie Or if they had gone too yet he would not have ended his quarrel against my walls but either have followed you in hot pursuit by the way side as he hath done many or else he would have waited till you had returned and have begun again least you should have gloried in your own inventions The last of these is yet to be feared And therefore reclaime your erronious confidence in your flight Else though that my heart pant after you though my armes would faine embrace you yet I love you so well that I would not draw you to inconveniencie Therefore for your health and preservation thereof by some good Antidote against your change of ayre I referre to your learned brothers of Physicke not that I think my whole ayre is infected or mortal but sickly to any that comes out of a fresher ayre and more dangerous now because you have somwhat to fright you To strengthen your heart take this Cordial Repentance and a good Conscience urged from Gods mercy and built on his Word and will tempered together And for a good Perfume take the Lords incense appointed in Exodus viz. Myrrhe clear gumme Galbanum and Frankensence Which some ingredients have relation to Prayer and Profession Faith and Charitie These may be your practise and your contemplation not to hold to your nose of vaine glory or hypocrisie as Exodus 30.38 But to offer to God out of the Censor of a zealous