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An approved medicine against the deserued plague
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Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.
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1593
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AN APPROVED Medicine against the deserued Plague ¶ Is any among you afflicted Let him pray Iames. 5.13 ¶ JMPRINTED AT London by Thomas Est dwelling in Aldersgate-streete at the Signe of the black Horse 1593. To the honorable and vertuous Lady Scudamore attendant vppon hir Maiesties most excellent person in hir priuie Chamber Anthony Anderson Preacher of Christs holy gospell Subdean of hir Maiesties Royall Chappell wisheth all honorable encrease and heauenly felicitie ALthough Honorable Madame the matter herewith tendred be of small worth to some men lesse esteemed with many yet sure I am the right vse thereof may aduaile moe then make accompt of it If in the daies of health prosperitie wee thinck it duetifull to pray the Lord to continue the same how much more ought wee in affliction and aduersitie to practise sound petition which godlinesse hath this riches that the faithfull by it in Christ from God doth receiue both temporary good and eternall comforts Wee in this Realme are vnder the rod of affliction and who doth pray but those which are taught of God to vse it Amongst the number of whome for that in my knowledge with many others in Court your Ladiship doth dayly vse and desire it and my selfe for your good opinion and Christian kindnesse conceiued and bestowed on mee to you greatly boūd I am bold to patronize my poore indeauors present vnder your Godly protection assured that both in Court country it shal be the more in vse which vndoubtedly will counteruaile their paines if they pray in faith The cause mouing this my boldnesse to present the Church here with is my dutie to the same in general especially next to the most honorable Court whereof I am a poore membre in hir Maiesties goodnesse to my comfortable charge at Stepney a people of great import for Maryne seruice cheefely zealous in God loyall to hir Maiestie well deseruing of the whole Realme and now vnder the rod of this smart visitatiō for whom I humbly besech all them which may or shall feele any comfort by this poore tender that in their feruent prayers they will effectually commēd vs to the Throne of Gods mercies in Christ And to you good Madame with the rest of the honorable and godly Ladies and others at Court I humbly commend mee beseeching God to graunt vs mercifull deliuerance of this his louing rod that wee hir Maiesties seruants may thether returne to our boūden dutie as apertaineth and so humbly I take my leaue August 1. 1593. Stepney Your honors deuote in the Lord Anthony Anderson ¶ To the humble hearted Readers in the Lord. THE Almightie GOD the Lord of Hosts as Father of mercies deare brethern for many yéeres past hath swéetly called vs to vnfained repentance by the Ministery of his holy woord but wée haue not hearkened therevnto Wherefore eftsoones and againe the same mightie God doth at this present sommon vs by his smart Preacher Micah 6.9 the visiting rod. Whose encreasing voyce cryeth to all in the persons of many thus Oh sinfull earth hearken and giue eare stop thy course stay thy race tourne thy selfe to mée receaue my stripes with pacience and wisely foresée the plague and hide thée For he that sent mée saith farther vnto thee Pro. 22.3 Zoph 2.1 O Nation not worthie to be loued how yet haue I loued thee What should I haue done that I haue not done vnto thée I haue giuen thée a wonderfull peace an inuincible protection an heauenly doctrine and the choyse store of all earthy treasure The gold of Ophir Salomon sought after 2. Chron. 8.18 but the Indians gold I haue powred into thy lap as vnlooked for A Prince thou hast the holy wonder of the world Else aske the Ilands which know not God Thy Realme and rest is kept by mée the watchman thereof and when soeuer the enimie assaileth I put him back with great disgrace The heauens doe drop the fatnesse the earth doth make thée laugh and sing what wouldest thou haue more but a continuance of that spirituall comfort and corporall pleasures which yet abide with thée but be wise and consider sée how I now begin to beate thée beware therefore repent in tyme least I vtterly remoue Reue. 2.5 thy Candlestick from thée and then who will pittie thy last dissolution Behold and heare my rod Micah 6.9 and mée that sent it I haue made thée sick with striking doe not my percing arrows stick fast in thée Psal 38.2.5 Are not thy wounds putrified Doth not hasty death greatly deuoure thée Mark it well and the cause therof Thy sinne is the cause Micah 6.13 thy great sinnes and they passing accompt Oseas 9.9.17 Turne therefore vnto mée that am in iust angre comming vnto thée with a mynde of reuenge prepare thée therefore to méete mée before the daye of my decrée come foorth Psal 106. in all Lucke 7.38 Ioel. 2.13 Come to mée not with Israells hipocrisie but with Magdalens teares Rent your harts and kéepe whole your garments for I cannot take pleasure in that bodely exercise where the penitent spirit speaketh not for mercie If any be afflicted let him pray Iam. 5.13 If many be vnder the rod let all come together turne together mourne together cry together and say O Lord of Hosts in the midle of thy wars thinck vpon thy promised mercies Wée come no more to fight against thée in our sinfull lusts but to fall before thée forsaking confessing our sinnes swéet Lord haue mercie And let euery of you Esa 1.5.6 Hos 4.1 Iero. 8.6 from the top to the toe for you are sore from the head to the foote applying profitably the contrauersie to your selues say Our sinnes O Lord yea euery man say my sinnes as our sinnes are the causes of this malady Our rebellions presumptions scorning Atheistical our Romane sinnes our carnall apetites present past remembred and forgotten sinnes Sinnes without remorse without conscience against all conscience euen when the spirit quaketh in dread euen thē the flesh burneth in lust Sinnes in Court vnbridled sinnes in the Church not repented of in the country not cared for Iero. 17.27 The prophanation of the Sabboth day the abhominations in the wéeke day no truth lesse trust Hose 4.1.2 no faith to God no loue to our brethern much fayll of loyaltie to the Prince and small proofe of due obedience to hir Magistrates But a mightie scorne of the Lords Preachers through an vtter contempt of his woord Resolute in league with sinne Esa 28. death and hell and an absolute distrust of Gods sure promises either for mercies or Iudgement And what should I say more Oh how many are the foolish wise which say in vnpunished boldnesse they haue no God Psal 14.1 There is no God Oh England O people why wilt thou dye Say to thy selfe Oh Soule repent thée of thy sinne Iero. 18.8 26 3. Psal 91.4.7 and God will