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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	trinity_n	9,904	5	10.2376	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19581	Londons lamentation for her sinnes and complaint to the Lord her God. Out of which may bee pickt a prayer for priuate families, for the time of this fearefull infection. And may serue for a helpe to holinesse and humiliation for such as keepe the fast in priuate: together with a souereigne receipt against the plague. By W.C. pastor at White chappell.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 6017.5; ESTC S118685	24,200	62

finding out Againe how infinite and vnmeasurable are thy Mercies to all them that feare thée and seeke thy Face Therefore we beséech thée let the sorrowfull sighing of these thy Prysoners come before thee and according to the greatnesse of thy power preserue thou those that are appointed to dye At least wée beséech thée as thou emptiest the Earth fill the Heauens and whom thou takest from vs Lord take vnto thy selfe and fill thy heauenly Mansions with their Soules whose bodies haue left so many houses desolate in our streetes And for so many of vs whom thou pleasest to preserue Lord Let vs not liue but to honour thee therefore mark vs with thy holy stampe and seale vs for thy selfe that when the Angell of Iustice sees vs sorrowing for our sinnes and for the iniquitie of the time and mourning for the Miseries and sighing for the sufferings of thy Saints and laying to our hearts the affliction of Ioseph he may then not only passe by vs but euen in the midst of this common calamitie leaue vs some badge of thy blessing some better Testimonie of thy Loue in the holy vse of this thy Iudgement then the more secure times of our liues past haue formerly afforded vs. Thus Lord haue wee powred out our soules into the bosome of thy Mercie Thou art hee that heares the Prayer vnto thee shall all flesh come and if all flesh may come shall not then thy Children be bold to presse vnto thee And seeing we haue poured out our hearts to thee O poure not out the Uialls of thy Wrath vpon vs but poure down vpon vs the new of thy fauour the showres of sweet Compassion Heare vs thou blessed Father plead for vs thou blessed Sonne helpe our infirmities thou blessed Spirit of Grace and make thou Intercession for vs with those holy groanes that cannot by vs bee expressed Heare vs and answere vs thou glorious Trinitie in holy Unitie not for any Merits of ours for wee lay our hands vpon our mouthes nay wee abhorre our selues in dust and ashes but only for the precious bloud-shedding and all sufffcient Satisfaction of Iesus Christ the Suretie and Sauiour of our Soules the Mediatour of our Peace and the Eternall High Priest of the New Testament In whose blessed Name and holy words wee shut vp this our weake Prayer offer this our poore Sacrifice and tender this pitifull complaint of our poore soules vnto the hands of thy heauenly Maiestie as hee hath taught vs and left vs in his holy Gospel the Charter of our Peace Our Father c. A SOVEREIGNE MEDICINE FOR and against the Plague Being an ancient and approoued Antidote and the sure and infallible way how to escape the Plague or at least the Plague of the Plague TAke thy Heart for there beginnes the Plague and euery morning wash it in the teares of true repentance and heartie sorrow for thy sinnes But that it may bee throughly washt see first thou stretch it vpon the tenters or rather set it vpon the racke of a strict Examination that so it may poure it selfe out and make a free and full Confession Then mollifie it in the precious Oyle and bathe it in the bloud of Iesus Christ the true Balme of Gilead by a true and liuely Faith Being thus clensed then strengthen it by cordiall comforts confected of nothing else but the pure and sweet promises of the Gospell And this Confection is only to be made by the skilfull hand of the holy Physician and Spirituall Apothecarie the Minister of God whom thou shalt alwayes find at the signe of the Bible or the Holy Lambe and there thou art sure of true and wholesome Simples But take heed of them at the Crosse-keyes or the Signe of Agnus Dei for though the Shops be gorgeous and all things gloriously painted thou art sure to be coozened with counterfeit Drugs and with the corrupt Balsome of Aegypt in stead of the true Balme of Gilead Thy Heart thus rectified let it then command thy tongue and lippes to acknowledge that thou for thy part by thy sinnes of Commission and Omission hast had thy hand and borne thy part in pulling downe this Pestilence and all other plagues of God Let it then command it selfe to promise and vow that if thou for thy part may by the power and mercie of God bee preserued thou wilt performe some speciall seruice to him his Church or Children more then before And let it command the said tongue and lips to vtter and publish the same promise the better to bind it selfe to obedience Let it then command the eyes to turne away from beholding and the eares from hearkening after vanitie and yeeld themselues the instruments of holy Obseruation to marke and consider the works of the Lord It must then command the hands to keepe themselues free from corruption and that they bee painfully and faithfully imployed in the honest labour of thy lawfull Calling and thy feet to walke in those wayes and tread onely in those steps which God hath appointed thee This done then take for thy Breakfast in the Name of the Lord a Chapter of the blessed Bible and so set thy selfe vnto thy worke and faithfull labour of thy lawfull Calling Then after thy dayes labour done bodily refection take for thy Spirituall Dinner and Supper thy heartfull of holy Obseruations of those mightie Workes of God both of his Iustice and Mercie towards thy selfe and others which all that day long eyther thine eyes haue seene or thine eares haue heard of Then the day beeing done see that thou and thine for your Banquet or reare Supper doe close vp your stomackes with those true Sweet-meates certaine selected Chapters of the blessed Bible Then after a holy Commemoration of what euery one hath heard or seene or obserued that day touching the wondrous Workes of God and application of the same one to another and each one to himselfe Let then the Heart command the Tongue with comfort and boldnesse to recommend the soules and bodies of Thee and Thine into the blessed tuition powerfull protection and safe keeping of the Keeper of Israel But forget not noe thing as thou wouldest haue all this profitable and to doe thee any good namely to learne which thou maist doe of that excellent Apothecary Saint Paul what it is to liue the life of faith when naturall reason and humane helpes not only faile thee but haply are all against thee This Faith I tel thee afore-hand is not easily found but I deale truly with thee who had it and can teach thee how to get it for though himselfe cannot giue it thee yet hee will both direct and lead thee and bring thee acquainted with that holy Spirit who gaue it him and will not denie it thee if thy Tongue doe begge it and thy Soule seeke it Neuer so little of this Faith is precious therefore so thou get it and haue it right care not for the quantity for it is