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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

another 3. So for the third How are our bodyes that should be vessells of honour Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in giuen ouer to all vncleannesse men neighing with the horse after his female and thinking no waters so pleasant nor any bread so sweet as what in that sort is purloyned 4. Those Pronounes Meum and Tuum are rased out of our Grammers many violently stealing but more fraudulently cozening their Neighbours of their estates It is naught saith the buyer and comming to sell it hee as much commends it and in both equally deceiptfull 5. How greedily doe our eares sucke in false Reports of our brethren and how are our mouthes with childe till againe they be deliuered of them to the detraction of their repu●es The Diuels name comes from such practice Diabolus is Divulgator a spreader abroad of euill reports so that they that report them haue the Diuell in their tongues and they that receiue and beleeue them the Diuell in their eares both in their hearts Nay are there not found among vs Sons of Belial such as Iesabell procured to sweare against Naboth who for a small salary will sweare downe Innocence it selfe and condemne it The Temple-walkes in the Tearme-time are seldome vnfurnisht of such necessary mischiefes 6. And whence come all these what is the ground of all these Iniquities but our owne concupiscence the sinne against the last Commandement which as St. Iohn diuides it is either carnis or occulorum with Achan wee see a Babilonish garment and a wedge of gold and so wee desire to be fine or rich or to enjoy such a beautie or to be reuenged in such a kinde for such an iniury and loe all these actuall Iniquities follow These are in grosse our grosse Transgressions and Iniquities against which being to declaime I could wish I had Stentors voyce and more sand to runne out but there are other things which call for my labour and your attention But yet ere I leaue this verse with the practice of which sinnes we so much please our selues giue me leaue to doe as the Finers of gold and siluer who non solùm aurimassas verum bracteolas parvus tollunt not onely make vse of the Wedge it selfe but euen of the smallest rayes or foyles which their mettall casteth so heere giue mee leaue to note out the first word of the verse the censure which the Wisdome of God giues vpon men when they are in their greatest Ruffe in the toppe of their Pride as Nebuchadnezzar in his Galleries and say with Pharaoh who is the Lord that I should obey him or with Rabsaketh to Hesekiah he shall not be able to deliuer thee out of my hands I say though they like the Dromedary weary themselues in the race of their abominations and yet triumph thinking that Wisedome shall onely liue and die with them Yet see what a blacke coale they are marked with by the finger of the Spirit the honourablest stile they can haue is but Fooles that 's the best and most charitable construction can be giuen of all their actions and the fayrest tytle they can deserue One builds and thinkes to get him a name that way another lades himselfe with thicke Clay to vse the phrase of the Prophet and hopes that way to get him a name another ventures his life to get him a name after his death and there are Catilanary dispositions who by mischiefe thinke to procure a name as those Inventors of the Powder-treason but see here what name they get this is the denomination which they haue in their liues and shall without repentance be written on their Tombes Foole and vnwise to heart and without vnderstanding shall each of them be called and so recorded to Posterity As Abigal spake of her Husband Nabal is his name and folly is with him so it is with vs all by nature we are all bound vp in a bundle of folly together were wee as wise as Achitophell whose counsell was thought as the Oracles of God or as Solomon who could dispute of euery thing from the Cedar to the shrubbe or as Adam who had the wisedome to impose names according to the seuerall natures of euery creature yet is all the wisdome in the world folly with God who sits in Heauen and sees the actions of men and laughs them to scorne and will at last openly discouer their nakednesse to themselues that they themselues shall bee enforced to acknowledge their folly and bee ashamed of it Though the sword of Gods vengeance long rests in the scabberd of ●his patience as it did to these men here in my Text yet at last it will bee drawne forth The Heathen shall know themselues to bee but men and these men to bee but Fooles the day of their pleasure is now past and the night of their Tribulation comes they were well and in health and merry but see now they are afflicted nay Tarditatem supplitij gravitate compensat for see the manner of it Their soule abhorreth all meate and they drawe neere to the gates of death and so the second part comes in the Disease The cause of our disasters you haue heard our Transgressions and our Iniquities hinc nostri fundi calamitas hence is the source of all our sorrowes the originall of all our afflictions Had our first Parents continued in that Innocency wherein they were created the name of affliction had beene a stranger vnto them they had neuer suffered had neuer dyed but they starting aside like a brok●n bow and falling from that Integrity haue not onely brought a death and that a double one vpon themselues and their issue Mori●nd● moriemini but also encumbred that short life which was alotted them with a world of sorrow and vexation Hence come that infinite number of diseases which begirt and enuiron this body of ours so that not one part from the sole of the foot to the top of the head may challenge any freedome and immunity some whereof ambitiously aspire to the seate of Maiesty the head and there despightfully triumph ouer vs while others more humble no lesse cruell content themselues with the Iniury they offer vs in our more inferiour members Others there are who as if they had receiued that commission of his to his Souldiers fight neither against small nor great saue the King onely so these bend all their forces against the onely fountaine of our life our heart where yet more kindely cruell they strike vs with present death while others to shew the virulency of their disposition are many yeeres in killing vs during all which time our whole life is but labour and sorrow and the graue is more desired then all the treasures of the world One hee complaines of his head as the Shu●a●it●s Son another of his belly as the Prophet another is ●icke in his legges as Asa another of a soare as Hezekiah