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A47484	Pillulæ pestilentiales, or, A spiritual receipt for cure of the plague delivered in a sermon preach'd in St. Paul's Church London, in the mid'st of our late sore visitation / by Rich. Kingston ...	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1665 (1665)	Wing K614; ESTC R4398	31,246	136

corrupts the Will and so poisons all our Intellectual faculties that we cannot see the light of Faith or ardently love God or do any other Act that may speak us living Christians and in a State of Grace Secondly They are alike in their Infection The reason why we shut people up that are Infected and avoid their Company is because they easily communicate their Disease to those that are in health it is so with sin it insensibly creeps upon us The often seeing wicked men repeat their crimes first takes from us the hatred we should bear them and afterward by undiscerned progressions so far work on us that we begin to love and commit the same The Historian observes That Augustus soon perceived the Inclination of his two Daughters by the Company they kept The one affected none but the grave Senators and worthy personages of Rome and the Other none but the loose and debauch'd Gallants We cannot touch pitch but we must be defiled and we cannot converse with wicked men but we shall be tainted with their Impurities Thirdly They are alike diffusive Thucidides in his Description of the Plague of Athens tells us it began in Africa march'd from Aethiopia into Aegypt and so took its course for Athens which was a vast progress And hath not Sin done the like Hath not the Sin of Adam in Paradice spread it self over the whole World and so seized upon the mass of Mankind that we must all confess we are Vnclean and there is none of us righteous no not one Fourthly They are both terrible What a dismal sight is it to see an Army enter by force into a pleasant City and there in a moment by the licentious fury of the Soldiers view those streets floating with the blood of the Inhabitants which in time of Peace used to be strewed with flowers Yet when heat of blood is over some mercy is usually hoped for and many times obtained But the Plague like another Attila the Scourge of God sweeps all before it and seldom gives Quarter Sin does the like yea in a more terrible manner for it erects its Trophies upon the ruine of Souls The destruction of the body is but a momentary pain but that of the Soul is commensurate to the duration of it which is to all Eternity How much reason have we therefore to pray to be delivered from this Executioner that like another Nero loves to perpetuate misery and strikes a wretch ut sentiat se mori Fifthly They are alike in their Symptomes When a man begins to feel some distemper in his head stomach belly or other parts though we apprehend some danger yet we think him not past the benefit of Physick and a possibility of Recovery but if once his body begin to be purpled and the plague spots discover their dismal hue we then quit all hopes and think nothing less than a miracle can recover him Sin also hath her spots and they are as ill boading to the Soul as the other to the body V. 23. and therefore St. Jude in his General Epistle styles wicked men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spots in their feasts of Charity Lastly They are both of a quick dispatch Other Diseases seem to give us some warning that we may set our house in order and by repentance blot out the Score of our sins prodigality but the pestilential sword like the Italian Stilletto carries death upon the point and at its first entrance summons the wounded to his Funeral so that we may now sing in a mournful Dirge Our pleasures cease our joys are flying Death is alive but Life is dying Hence it is that Galen calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of its Mortal quality and Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of its spreading nature This deadly disease we see lays heaps upon heaps and if the Almighty power puts not a stop to its violent proceedings it will in a short time scarce leave living enough to bury the dead Where God gives it a Commission it runs like fire in a Corn field That passage in Samuel is very remarkable 2 Sam. 24.15 where it is said So the Lord sent a Pestilence upon Israel from the Morning even to the time appointed Some think this appointed time was six hours and of this opinion is St. * Super Psal 37. Ambrose * quaest 37 Theodoret and the Jewish Historian Josephus Others think this appointed time was until night and that at the beginning of the Evening Sacrifice it ceased which St. Hierome followes V. Casp Sanctium in●l Others with Tostatus Abulensis think it lasted three dayes However all agree that it was but a short space in which this Tragedy was acted although the quamdiù is not certain Upon this account the Septuagint reads the Words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If I send Death amongst my people to signifie other diseases by Medical herbs and the skill of Physicians may be Cured but this is an infallible Executioner as sure as death it self And doth not Sin do the same with the Soul Gen. 2.17 In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye not a year after but in the very day thou breakest my Commandement thy sin will prove deadly So Annanias and Sapphyra no sooner lyed to the holy Ghost but at St. Peter's Examination their Consciences became their condemning Jury and their Sentence a sudden Death We have now seen their agreement I shall only say there is this happy dissimilitude that whereas the Cure of the Bodily plague is uncertain that of the Soul plague is infallible if we fly to Christ with a due sense of our misery and seek from his Merits that Alexipharmacon that is an Antidote against the greatest Crimes But I shall desist from speaking any longer indefinitely of Sin and come to those particular ones that in so high a degree have drawn this plague upon us First then The sin that leads the van is our Sabbath-breaking How loud doth this cry in the Ears of God! A sin more frequent impudent and unpunish'd than in those late black days when the greatest were justified by a Law This blessed day is now as much mangled and broken as once the Lord of it was And as the Poet deriding the immoderate dress of a wanton Girl told her that she was minima pars sui so is this day so divided that it is now become the least part of it self and you may seek for a Sabbath in a Sabbath and not find it And whereas it ought to be the greatest Festival and holy Rest now other days are more innocent then this Those we spend upon our Callings and this the more is our shame on our sins In the Primitive times sanctifying the Lords Day was an eminent Character that Christians lived in the purity of their profession When the Question was asked Servasti Dominicam The Answer returned was Christianus sum intermittere non possum I am a Christian and may not

Vmbra viri facies haec est Surgentis in altum Effigiem melius pagina culta dabit Ingentes animae superant virtutibus Artem Vostermanne tuam vel Titiane tuam PILLVLAE PESTILENTIALES OR A SPIRITUAL RECEIPT for Cure of The Plague Delivered in a Sermon Preach'd in St. Paul's Church LONDON in the mid'st of our late Sore VISITATION By Rich. Kingston M. A. and Preacher at St. James Clerken-well Numb 16.46 There is wrath gone out from the Lord and the Plague is begun Numb 16.48 And Aaron stood between the Living and the Dead and the Plague was stayed LONDON Printed by W. G. for Edw. Brewster at the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard 1665. To the Right Honourable Sir JOHN KEELING Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND Right Honourable WHen I lift mine Eyes from the low and humble valley of my obscure fortunes to that bright shining and Eminent hill of Honour on which the Favour of His Majesty the Nobleness of Birth and your many Excellent Virtues have seated you I cannot but lay a sharp and rigorous Censure upon my own Presumption that I so much a stranger to your Lordship should thus boldly adventure to press into your presence and to crave your Honourable Patronage of so mean a Work but when your Honour is pleas'd to consider that Divine Truth 's are Subjects worthy of acceptation though presented in an Earthen Vessel and David's comfort in rescuing his Wives and recovering the spoils from the Amalekites was no whit the smaller although a young man of Egypt made way for the discovery I hope to obtain what I humbly beg your Honours Pardon My Lord this Sermon was Compos'd and Preach'd in the very height of our late dreadful Visitation when Thousands dy'd on our right hand and Ten Thousand on our left at which time my imployment by day was visiting the Sick and by night burying the Dead having no time allowed for study but what I extracted from my natural rest which may make this Tract more guilty of failings than at another time my humble request therefore to your Lordship is that you would be pleased to lay the finger of a charitable construction upon the Scar of my imperfection and favourably accept this first fruit of my labours So in all humility imploring the God of Majesty and Mercy to Sanctifie your Heart Rectifie your Hand Justifie your Soul and lastly Crown your Head with eternal Glory I take the honour to Subscribe my self Your Lordships daily Oratour Rich. Kingston To the Right Worshipful Joseph Ayloff and George Walsh Esquires two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex And to the Worshipful Henry Dacres and William Cole Esquires as also to his much respected friend Mr. Henry Knight R. K. wisheth the dew of Heaven and the fatness of the Earth Right Worshipful TUtelar Angels are a controverted Theme amongst Schoolmen but the favourable influence of a just defence from your Worships hath been an unquestionable matter of my experience which transcendent favours if buried in Oblivion would be an high impeachment of veracity and not to acknowledge them having this occasion could plead for no distance from down-right sordidness and plain Ingratitude The Work is too small and the Author too mean to equalize your worth or merit your Patronage only 't is the height of my Ambition to let the world know that your favours which as far excel my deserts as my power to retaliate have not been bestowed on an ungrateful Servant I am not ignorant that cunning Bezaliahs and Aholiahs may carve and pollish the Temple yet I am glad that I can but lay one little stone though men of brighter Souls bring their Gold and Jewels to it yet I hope God will accept of my young Pigeons and Turtle Doves I may say with St. Peter Silver and Gold have I none but what I have I give you in all humility beseeching you to consider my years which are but few and the time I had which was but short and my many other sad occasions wherewith in the mean time I was interrupted and then accept of this for tryal as if it were the extract of some purer and better wit The Lord prosper your days direct your hearts and bless all your undertakings to the glory of his Name and your own eternal felicitie So ever Prayeth Your Worships in all Duty and Service Rich. Kingston To the Church-Wardens of the Parish of St. James Clerken-Well for the time being and to the rest of the Officers and Inhabitants of the same Parish R. K. Wisheth health and happiness in this life and Eternal blessedness in that to come Loving Friends IT pleased the wise Disposer of all things to cast my lot among you in one of the most dreadful Visitations that ever England knew when the black Horse of the Pestilence with Pale Death on his back pranc'd our Streets at Noon day and Midnight at which dreadful and never to be forgotten time our sense of Seeing was well-nigh glutted with beholding the sight of our Diseased and Deceased Friends enough to have extinguish'd the optick faculty No Papers then over our Dores were set With Chambers ready furnish'd to be Let But a sad Lord have mercy upon us and A Bloody Cross as fatal marks did stand Presaging th' noisome Pestilence within Was come to take revenge of us for Sin And as our Eyes might well be dim'd so might our Ears be deaf'd with the doleful cryes of the Poor for Food to keep them from Starving of the Sick for Physick to keep them from Dying and of them that were Marked for Spiritual helps to preserve them from Perishing We well might hear of Death there was such plenty One Bell at once was fain to Ring for twenty No Clocks were heard to strike upon their Bells Cause nothing Rung but Death-lamenting knells Which dreadful noises so terrified some and affrighted all that men knew not what course to steer to preserve themselves from this wounding shaft Some by their fear to go to Church deburr'd Anon are carri'd Dead into the Yard And Churches new with too much Burial fed Fear'd they should have no meeting but of Dead This Poyson'd Arrow of the Pestilence especially when it was first foot among us wounded so suddenly and sharply that we could scarce be resolved whether 't was Sickness or Death it self that assaulted us for many lying down to repose in the Evening made their sleep true kin to Death by dying before the Morning Ah who would then defer A preparation for this messenger But not to detain you longer with a large Epistle to a little Book be pleas'd to accept thereof as a Testimony of my sincere love to you which shall always be accompanied with my hearty Prayers for you that our merciful God would be pleas'd to withdraw his Sin-revenging Scourge which is still amongst us and charge his Angels to guard your persons from future dangers and give you