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A10242	The heart of the king, and the king of the heart, or, A briefe vnfolding of that remarkable proverbe of the royall preacher ... written in the time of His Maiesties abode at Plimmouth, and preferred vnto him in his returne from thence, anno 1625 : together with a short meditation vpon 2. Sam. 24.15., preached at a weekely lecture in Deuon, in those fearefull times of mortalitie / by J.P. Master of Arts and minister of the gospell.	Pyne, John.; J. P.	1628 (1628)	STC 20521.8; ESTC S4427	27,924	64

Monteagle for Crassus our Cecil for her Cicero our late Soueraigne for her whole Senat. Thus the Lords mightie hand hath done for vs great things and holy is his name It hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their owne hearts and holpen our Israel in remembrance of his mercie To contract and conclude all and therewithall in a neerer application of this Text to apply our selues vnto thankes Deut. 32.3 Let vs publish the name and the hand of our Lord Ascribe ye greatnesse vnto our God Deut. 32.9 The Lords portion is his people and Iacobs off-spring the Lot of his Inheritance As for his People with his owne right hand hath hee gotten the victorie ouer the strong holdes of their crooked and stubborne hearts It was his onely hand that pierced that filme which inuolueth their hearts making it to send forth that cordiall water of compunction the shedding whereof mortifieth Nature and irrigateth the grace of their Conuersion Deut. 32.10.12 And as for Iacobs off-spring the Lords hand brought him backe not long since from a desert Land He led him about he instructed him hee kept him as the apple of his eye The Lord alone did lead him and there was no strange God with him that I may so apply those passages in Moses his Song Deut. 32. The Lords hand fortified his Royall heart against all danger both of soule and bodie so that the Idolatrous Nation could neither detayne his person nor obtayne their purposes Their loose Religion did knit him faster to his Lord and Sauiour and their superstitious shewes and seruices did the more confirme his sacred resolution of persisting with sinceritie of heart in the Orthodoxe and Apostolicall Faith Yea the same hand did in some sort reuerse the purposes of our Soueraigne himselfe to reserue him for the accomplishment of Gods owne diuine purposes Cant. 2.1 Hee who is the Rose of Sharon and the Lilly of the Valleyes brought backe our Soueraigne Rose from that barren soyle in whose Plot hee could neuer haue prospered the ground thereof being so deceitfull And now hee hath bedded it with the Royall Lilly in his owne fruitfull Land O let the Almightie Hand knit vp their hearts both together as one Poesie in the bundle of life making him alway a fragrant Rose of a sweet smelling sauour before God And her the turnd Lilly vnto the Lord bearing vp both of them that they may not dash the foot of their affections against the stone and stumbling blocke of Idolatry but rather may dash that in pieces against the Rocke Christ Iesus In the next place consider wee how graciously the Royall Protector of the Soueraigne heart hath enclined the royall heart of our gracious Soueraigne to be the Protector and Auenger of his distressed Sister and Nephewes in the Netherlands whose Land Strangers haue deuoured and in whose low estate the heart of Religion hath long layen vpon bleeding Finally let Leuies Tribe gratefully consider and remember how the Lord enlarged the other day the heart of our graciously enclined Soueraigne for the enlarging of Leuies portion many of whose Tribe want the corporall bread while they prepare the spirituall food As soone as our Lord the King had notice from his loyall Subiects that there was in many barren places of his Maiesties large Dominions a Famine by so much greater then that in Samaria 2. Kings 6. by how much the Soule is better then the Bodie And that in those places it fared with his people as it did with those Samaritans in the 25. Verse of the forementioned Chapter Sacrilegious Simonyaks obtruding to them by way of sale an Asses head to feed their hunger-starued soules yea an Head possessed with a dumbe spirit whose jaw-bone euen while it wanteth motion may bee said to slay as many Soules as Samson did Bodies with his Iaw-bone of an Asse Iudges 15. heapes vpon heapes as it is in the 16. Verse of the Chapter Hauing graciously laid to heart that this was the Kings Euill and by him only to bee cured vnder God and that therefore his Subiects did cry like her in Samaria 2. Kings 6.26 Helpe our Lord O King He soone returned a more comfortable answer then she receiued there namely that the Parliament assembled at that time should take speciall care that for the better propagating of the Gospell in prouiding able Pastors prouision should bee made that aswell the owners of Parsonages Impropriate as the Inhabitants of Parishes vntaught should allow competent maintenance for sufficient Ministers in those Churches whose Cures did neerely concerne themselues in particular Thus the Lord hath highly enriched our Soueraigne with the blessings of Salomon so that hee is wise in his youth and as a Floud filled with vnderstanding His Name is gone farre Ecclus 47.14 16. and for the peace and prosperitie which he wisheth vnto Sion he is highly beloued and renowned And as for the Iles vnder him the Lord hath blessed them with the blessings of the Gentiles in the last Chapter of Isaiah Esay 66. cap. vers 12.14 Hee hath extended peace like a Riuer our hearts reioyce and our bones flourish like an hearbe and the hand of the Lord is knowne towards vs. Now the same Almightie hand of the euerliuing God who hath placed and planted our Soueraigne as the Heart in the bodie of this Triangled Iland reserue euer to it selfe only that little Triangle of his heart giue him an heart to loue and dread the Lord and diligently to liue and rule according to his Commandements that so when hee shall haue finished his course kept the Faith and giuen vp the Account of his high Stewardship hee may heare that comfortable and heart-reioycing voyce pronounced vnto him Math. 25. ●1 Well done thou good and faithfull seruant thou hast beene faithfull ouer a few things I will make thee ruler ouer many things Enter thou into the Ioy of thy Lord. A BRIEFE MEDITATION VPON THE FIFTEENTH VERSE OF the twenty fourth Chapter of the second Booke of Samuel Deliuered at a vveekly Lecture in Deuon Anno 1625. By J. P. THOV SHALT LABOR FOR PEACE PLENTIE LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1626. 2. SAM 24.15 So the Lord sent a Pestilence vpon Israel from the morning euen vnto the time appointed and there dyed of the people euen from Dan to Beersheba seuenty thousand men YEE see euen at the first sight that this Text affoordeth fit matter for the taking vp of our Meditations in these times It maketh report of a great Pestilence spreading it selfe in Israel in the time and specially for the sinne of King Dauid Dauids heart is lifted vp in the number of his people The Lord lifteth vp his hand to cut it off He pricketh that swelling bladder of vaine and carnall confidence with a sharpe and grieuous sicknesse I note in the Text these seuerall particulars First The Author or Inflicter of this mortalitie The Lord. Secondly The Nature of it It was a

pestilentiae there the Psalmist placeth them such as terme holinesse without which no man can see God pestilent peruersenesse and peeuish precisenesse such as tearme the Lords holy Embassadors as Tertullus did Paul pestilence it selfe so soundeth the Originall those Preachers who pester their sweet sinnes pestilent fellowes that is a common name with them They make them the worst of men and the scumme of the Earth And what maruaile if the pestilence the fiercest of all sicknesses and the scourge of the earth be come among vs Doth not the Extortioner take interest and the Oppressor vse violence doe they not eat like a canker into the estates of the poore going about and seeking how and whom they may ouer-reach and deceiue And doe we wonder why the pestilence breaketh in vpon vs like a mightie torrent sweepeth away our people and taketh away our increase going about like a roaring Lyon seeking whom it may deuoure Haue not many of vs vncharitably and blasphemously wished that the plague of God would light on our Brethren And now how iustly hath it euen ouertaken vs So long haue oathes curses and execrations such as a vengeance take thee and a plague on thee and God confound thee come out from vs like arrowes shot against heauen till now they are readie to returne and fall downe with a vengeance on our owne heads We haue called for them and now they are comming We haue tainted the ayre with them and now the ayre is readie to enter and infect vs. Haue not some of vs heartily wished for our Brethrens deaths that wee might compasse our designes and grow great in the World And now how deseruedly may their death in these contagious times be the bane of our whole Family Is there not the hiding if not the plotting as well as the packing vp of Murthers among vs and all perhaps for the pursing of a piece of mony And what maruell if our bloud bee corrupted and our Land vnpeopled when that bloud is concealed which cryeth for vengeance and leaueth a Land vnpurged Haue not the creatures been peruerted by vs in the intemperate and lawlesse vse of them and what maruell if wee are now readie to bee infected by them in their lawfull and moderate vse Our swelling humour of Pride and Gluttonie in excesse of fare and apparell swilling and swaggering in the most riotous manner hath made way for the swelling tumour of the pestilence spreading and raging abroad in our Land The cloathes which should haue couered our shame and haue so shamefully discouered our pride in steed of keeping vs well and warme are now readie to conuay contagion into vs. We haue shut our doores against the poore the poore hath beene separated from his Neighbour and now we are in danger of hauing our doores shut vp and our selues separated one from another We haue infested others with our particular examples of diuers pernicious deeds And now others are ready to infect vs with pestilent diseases Our humour of corrupting others hath at length brought the corruption of the humours on our selues Wee haue not feared the contagion of Sinners who haue beene notoriously incorrigible and scandalous and now we can hardly escape those whom wee iustly suspect to be infectious In our priuate familiaritie wee haue not separated the precious from the vile wee haue aduentured vpon intimate acquaintance with the most pestilent persons and peruersest Sinners and now those who haue the very sore of the pestilence running vpon them are readie to rush in among vs. In our priuate Families we haue had medly Liueries garments of Linsey-wolsey a mixture of bad seruants with some few good ones Some we haue had of both sorts to bring our dessignes to passe on both sides corrupt men that our corrupt ends might bee compassed and religious men that so they might bee coloured or countenanced Wicked Iudasses there are among vs who thinke they may sinne with liberty and purloyne for their commoditie vnder a confidence that none can espie them as long as Christs followers keepe their company And now the sicke are mingled with the sound and the one endangered by the other Our eares haue itched after Nouelties and strange opinions and now behold a new and a strange contagion is come among vs. Many of vs haue affected Sects Schisme and Separation and now the sicknesse hath made a sore rent and a grieuous separation amongst vs. It hath been heard among vs that children might not bee baptized and admitted into the Church without danger of sinne And now it may bee feared that they will not bee brought into the Congregation without danger of sicknesse Platoes communitie hath beene held by some particular Libertines and now it may be feared that one common plague is let loose to lay hold generally vpon all places To draw towards a conclusion So ill haue wee couenanted with our senses for the Lords seruice that now all of them striue to bee vnprofitable to our selues and are forced to acknowledge a grieuous subiection to the generall contagion that raigneth ouer the Land The Smell hath beene taken with effeminate if not Whorish perfumes The Eare hath beene tickled with vaine if not villanous speeches The Taste hath beene ouer-taken with Luxurie The Touch tainted with Lasciuiousnesse The Eye hath beene rolled with wandring Lusts and altogether set vpon lewdnesse So slenderly haue we guarded these Cinque-ports of our Domesticall Senses that now they are readie to let in an open enemie in open ayre to ouerthrow the whole estate of our bodies as our Cinque-ports on the Sea-coast if they be not watched may proue dangerous in-lets for our foes to enter by and endanger the bodie of our State Thus the Lord is iust but wee haue done wickedly Now once more what is the remedie whereby wee may auoid or induce him to auert his plagues To keepe our Bodies from the pestilentiall infection of the plague we obserue three speciall directions First To hasten from places infected Secondly To remoue into a pure aire Thirdly To haue the prescripts of the best Preseruatiues and Medicines Wee must take a like course for our soules against that plague of sinne First Goe out from the occasions of sinne as Peter did from the High Priests Hall Secondly Goe into a pure aire get vs a pure heart and a conscience purged to which wee may retire in all danger a heart and a conscience clensed by the wind of the Spirit cooling our concupiscence and asswaging our boyling corruptions and inspiring vs with good motions Thirdly Get vs a Peter-teare a bitter weeping proceeding from a true faith in Christ and a due contrition for sinne bewayling our corruptions the causes of these contagions That that is the onely distilled water which fortifieth vs against all Gods plagues For if his scourge once induce vs to penitence it must considering our deseruing needs endue vs with patience and then whatsoeuer befalleth vs It shall goe well with vs and happie shall we be