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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

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vs if we doe not and will follow them whoeuer they bee that double and dissemble with their God in this case And if any that be abroad and yet vnvisited thinke I deale too farre and too freely in this Confession I aske no more but to forbeare his judgment til they be vnder the hand of God as we haue bin now three moneths and more and then they will iudge I am too short The while God in mercy pardon that and wherin I may be thought to go too far I shall easily answere it to God or Gods Anointed shal sigh sob in secret to consider the wrath woes that wait for those wicked ones who as they deeply haue had their hand in pulling downe this Plague so carelessely seeke to passe it ouer and looke not after the God that hath smitten them and the whole Land for their sakes and will if they turne not betimes smite them downe to Hell What stony hearted Stoicke can he be who sees more then forty thousand Christians many as good and some better then Himselfe laid in the dust in little more then twice forty dayes and is not humbled vnder the Hand that did it and sensible of the Sin that did procure it Can hee bee a good Seruant of God or Subiect to his Souereigne that besides ten thousand aged weake and poore shall see an Army of ten thousand more braue lustie and seruiceable young men and tenne thousand more comely and mariageble young women and ten thousand more young Infants whose proofe and hope had beene still before them already taken out of one Corner of this Kingdome and sits not downe in dust and ashes mourning to that God that tooke them for that King that lost them with that Land that wants them For that Sinne that pluckt them from vs I dare pronounce vpon him from God whoeuer hee bee that can or dare thus sleightly and sliely passe by the workes of God and laughes in his sleeue at such a judgement as this is markt vp by God for some greater vengeance as sure as the fourteenth of Ezekiel is Gods true Word For if hee that mournes for sinne be the man that is Markt by God for blessing and deliuerance what 's hee that makes a sport of sinne and layes from his heart the Iudgements thereby procured but one that 's sealed vp for confusion and destruction O therefore that my heart were a Fountaine and my eyes Riuers of teares that I might worthily bewaile the sinnes of our Nation together with mine owne and weepe for the slaine of the Daughter of my people So cried the holy Prophet of the abundance of his holy Zeale and so I am sure in their seuerall measures doe all the Ministers and men of God amongst vs that haue but tasted of the same spirit mourning for the desolations of this Citie and more for the Contagion that causeth it and most of all for the sinnes that procured them both And who would not care to sacrifice themselues what way the Lord should please so the wrath of God might bee pacified towardes this Church and Nation and those plagues remooued which are the cause of this Plague And till these be remooued we shall find the Prophets tell vs true that eyther this Plague shall stil stay creep like a Canker ouer our whole body or else only make make way to some more fearefull that shall follow after it That this may be preuented he cannot be a Christian that will not both cry to God and confesse to him the publike and priuate and personall sinnes that be the cause thereof And as all that are enabled and taught by the holy Spirit of God to poure out their soules in humble Prayer and hearty Confession will in holy obedience to the holy Prophets counsell Take vnto themselues words and returne vnto the Lord So for those that cannot open their mouthes as they desire and yet haue hearts that groane after God and soules that seeke the Lord. For their assistance only haue I beene perswaded to publish this which now I leaue to them and them and it together with our selues to the mercifull acceptation and gracious blessing of our Good God who grant vs all in these dayes of danger when somtimes almost a thousand a day are pickt vp and pluckt away before our faces So to liue and so to dye as when we dye we may be sure to liue for euer And so to part with one another here as we may be sure to meet in Heauen And here so to confesse our sinnes as at the last Day Christ may confesse vs to be his owne And so to pray here as we may prayse God eternally in Heauen LONDONS LAMENTABLE COMPLAINT to her GOD. Containing A Prayer for the time of Infection afore confession of SINNE A Meditation vpon the causes and remedie of this Plague A Thankesgiuing for Gods mercie euen in this Crosse Most high and holy Iehouah thou being of beings who giues life and being to euery Creature giue leaue vnto us the most unworthy oues of all thy Children to come before thee and present our petitions at the Throne of Grace Wee durst not rush so rudely into thy holy presence mightie Lord God nor beg so boldly so great a sauour were it not that thou hast gratiously vouthsafed not onely to call and inuite vs but euen command vs to come vnto thee and call vpon thee in the day of our affliction and hast moreouer mercifullypromised that thou wilt heare vs and deliuer vs that we may glorifie thy great Name In this confidence we take comfort to come to thee O Lord in this day of our trouble and common calamitie of our Church and Kingdome And first we doe all in the name one of another and wée for our parts euery one of vs for himselfe humbly and freely cousesse wee haue all had our hands in this blood and each one borne apart in pulling down these heauie plagues vpon this City and our Nation O Lord wée doe none of vs excuse our selues but wee doe euery one of vs accuse and arraigue our selues at the barre of thy Iustice and we doe all pronounce our selues guiltie in thy sight Nor are we onely tainted with Originall sin in our natures but Lord our liues are stayned with all actuall pollutions in our thoughts words and déeds by sins of Comission and Omission by sins not onely of Ignorance but euen of negligence carelesnesse and presumption Miserable sinners that wée are wée haue not only committed soule and fearefull things abhominable to thy pure and holy Maiestie dishonorable to thy holy Religion offensiue to thy holy Law and therefore iust prouocations of thy Wrath but alas we haue sometime totally omitted and at the best alwaies failed in all the good and holy duties required at our hands Wée haue not béene humbled for thy iudgements nor thankfull for thy mercies as wee ought to haue beene therefore thy mercies being abused haue
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 PLAGVE By W. C. Pastor at White chappell IER 47. 6 7. O thou Sword of the Lord how long will it bee ere thou be quiet Put vp thy selfe vnto thy scabberd rest and be still How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath giuen it a charge c. LONDON Printed for G. Fayerbeard at the North side of the Royall Exchange 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lord Maior of London the Right Worshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen and the rest of the Godly Citizens and Offiers who haue eyther stayed in their Places and Duties during this Visitation or sent their large and comfortable Beneuolence for the Poore The Blessings of this and a better Life RIGHT HONORABLE IT was the Ordinance and Appointment of GODS owne Wisdome in the Law that all his Sacrifices and burnt Offrings should be seasoned with Salt the Fire importing Zeale by which euery Sacrifice must be offered and the Salt signifying Discretion with which it must be seasoned If it wanted eyther of these it could not bee accepted Now as this literall Fire and Salt belonged to the Iewes so the Spirituall is both commended and commanded to vs that liue vnder the sweet yoke of the Gospell euen to the Worlds end Namely that all our Sacrifices Seruice if we mean to haue them acceptable to God or auaileable to our selues must not onely bee offered with the Fire of holy Zeale but tempered with holy Wisdome and seasoned with the Salt of due Discretion therefore sayth Christ euen in his Gospell Euery one shall bee salted with Fire and euery Sacrifice shall bee seasoned with Salt Whereunto Saint Paul alluding exhorts all Christians to see that Their Seruice and Sacrifice bee not only holy and liuely but also reasonable Hence it is Right Honourable and Worshipfull that as our gracious King out of his Humilitie and holy Zeale commanded publike Fasting Prayer for the diuerting of this publike Iudgement So now out of holy and deepe discretion hath suspended for a time those publike meetings within the Citie Out of no dislike of Fasting and Prayer nor any wearinesse of those holy Exercises as some Malignant Spirits malitiously traduce Him But out of conscience to his God care of his Subiects liues wisely considering in our knowledge most truely that seeing the sick sore do what we Ministers could to the contrary mingled themselues confusedly with the sound by which meanes its more then manifest many thousands haue perished in this Citie and Suburbs It therefore lay vpon him as Supreme Magistrate and Gods Lieutenant to looke to the liues as well as to the Soules of all his people and to take order that the Fasts ordained for the bettering of the Soule should not so be vsed as to tend to the destruction of the body Leauing vs therefore in this distressed Citie the Lords Day or Sunday for our soules which being of Diuine Institution can admit no Dispensation by humane power and still commending and commanding vs that Day to fast pray in priuate and all the Kingdome else to doe it in publike for vs And for the sauing of our liues and to auoyd the tempting and prouoking of God Hath wisely forbidden all other publike meetings of dangerous concourse in places Infected till order can be taken which is no easie thing to doe to keepe the sound and sicke asunder Now as all those that be well are notwithstanding to repaire to the Church to be partakers of the publike Prayers the holy seruice appointed for that day so for a helpe of Humiliation and holy Deuotion to them that stay at home whereof also many thousand Families especially in our Suburbs are not able to buy the Booke I haue therefore beene perswaded to make publike this Meditation Confession and Prayer which in these dayes of publike Calamitie I walking hourely through the valley of the shadow of Death burying forty fifty sometime sixty a day and in the Totall more then two thousand alreadie I poured out in the presence of my God First in priuate for my selfe afterwards for the vse of those many thousand sicke soules that are or haue beene in my great poore Parish And lastly that hereby I might offer some Sacrifice and speciall piece of Seruice in way of holy thankfulnesse to the Lord our God who hath hitherto pleased to preserue me and my Brethren the Pastors of this Citie by his owne hand and power beyond all humane helpe and hope walking continually euen in the midst of the fiery flames alwayes in danger and neuer in more perill then in the Pulpit wherein the Lord hath beene so marueilous so magnified his loue and power vpon vs as if he should now take vs away yet hath hee so deliuered vs in discharging our duties and by his holy Angels kept vs thus being in our way till hee hath literally made good that promise in the Psalme yea and much more for alas wee haue not only seene a thousand fall at one side of vs and ten thousand at another but alas alas that our sinnes should so prouoke our God euen more then ten thousand on the one and more then twenty thousand on the other Which mighty work of God if wee should sit still and swallow and superficially passe ouer and not commend it to our Brethren in the Countrey whose turnes must follow God knowes how soone as sure as God hath begunne with vs and if we did not preserue the memory of it and represent it to Posterity for their instruction and that the Generations yet vnborne may prayse the Lord all holy men would accuse vs Gods Church would censure vs our own Consciences would condemne vs and God himselfe take vengeance of vs as most vnthankfull Caitiffes euen Monsters of Mankind vnworthy to breath vpon the Earth Being therefore in some sort touched with the sense of this hand of our God both of his hand of Iustice and of Mercy and being euerymoment put in mind of our mortality eyther by the sound in our eares or sights in our eyes can we but be moued vnlesse we were senselesse Stocks Stoicks to take into our serious and continuall Consideration the now most lamentable Case of this late so florishing a Citie and of this whole Kingdome into which this wild-fire of Gods wrath begins so fast to flie and can wee but lay to heart so great a sorrow Or dare wee for our soules but deale truly with our God in seeking sincerely and carefully searching out the true cause in our selues in our people and in the whole Kingdome that should thus prouoke the Lord against vs Certainly some heauy judgement must fall vpon
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