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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01801	The Kings medicine for this present yeere 1604 prescribed by the whole colledge of the spirituall physitions, made after the coppy of the corporall kings medicine, which was vsed in the city the former yeere. Giuen as a new yeers-gift, to the honorable city of London, to be taken in this yeere for the soule, as the other was for the bodie. Herevnto are intermixed, first, the wonders of the former yeer, his triumphs, two funeralls, two coronations, two preachers. Secondlie, Londons and Englands newyeers-gift, to offer vp vnto the Lord for his new-yeers-gift, containing King Dauids sacrificing after the ceasing of the pestilence, necessarie to teach vs the duty of our deliuerance. The whole collected out of the first book of Chr. ch. 21. / Made and vvritten by Iames Godskall, preacher of the vvorde.	Godskall, James.	1604 (1604)	STC 11936; ESTC S118768	100,652	208

preacheth also the Lords mercie to England and that in two things First that he hath not sent vnto vs the whole Trinitie of chastisements propounded vnto DAVID Secondly In that he hath not sent the heauiest of them three First our sins did deserue them all three together 1 Of the trinitie sending but one the famine and scarcitie of good workes famine and scarcitie of bread our fighting against the Lord the sword of the enemie the infection of the soule the infection of the body But the Lord who is mercifull hath called backe his anger and not stirred vp all his wrath Psal 78.38 The Low-countries may Preach the Lords mercie towardes England They haue sometimes felt at one time the trinitie of punishments and the former yeeres both warre and Pestilence wee in the meane time feeling but the rodde of DAVID Wee did I confesse expect a heauier judgement wee looked for nothing else but blood-shedding and fighting for a crowne behold we haue nothing but joye peace prosperitie and joyful ringing for a Crowne This our joy in the meane time being spysed with a litle bitternesse Secondly he hath not onely visited vs with one of the three 2 Sending not the heauiest but also with the sweetest and the best vsing not the rodde of reuenge but the scourge of correction And although our sinnes had deserued the heauiest yet he hath shewen to vs that mercie which he shewed to DAVID not suffering vs to fall into the handes of men If he had sent vs famine it would haue made many to haue morgaged their Landes to PHARAOS Gen. 47.20 to haue left the kingdome Gen. 12. Famine as the Prouerbe is is an euill counsellor when hunger had gryped vs it would haue egged men to thefts murthers de●eits Many would haue liued vppon the ayre and their owne moysture and so consumed away and in doing nothing to vse the saying of AVGVSTINE haue come to nothing Mothers you may be Preachers of Gods mercie if hee had sent a famine alas the tongue of the sucking childe had cleaued to the roofe of his mouth for thirst The yong children had asked bread no man should haue broken it vnto them And to vse further the words of IEREMIE the hands of the pittiful woman would haue sodden their own children as they did in the siege of Ierusalem Iam. 4.10 If he had sent vs hostile persecutiō Alas the vnmerciful souldier would haue laied opē your hedges leauiled your houses with the ground emptied you yours of all their possessions Where had bin your cities your wiues your daughters where your temples your Prophets yea where your religion they would haue displayed the banner and set vp the ensigne of the Romish-beast erected the signes of their abhominatiōs They would haue blaspheamed the God of Israel and said are these the Christians where is their God But nowe beloued they all remaine in their flowre prime the rod of DAVID hath not hindred vs to enter the temple nor the exercises of religion we see our signes and our prophets we enter into the house of the Lord with libertie of conscience there to behold her beautie Psal 27. and to adore the God of Israell in the spirit and trueth Wee strangers An apostrophe to strangers may also bee preachers ô Lorde of thy mercie in the middest of thy justice It is true thou hast much diminished the number of thy litle flock collected in this Kingdome yet better hath it bene for them that are exiled here for the name of thy Sonne for the testimony of thy eternal truth to haue fallē in thy hands then in the hands of mē of whose barbarous cru●lty both they their fore-fathers haue had experience and although they are buried in their exile yet thou hast transported thē in their heauenly father-land Thou which hast brought this vaine out of the Romish Egipt planted it in this land as in another Canaan make it fruiteful returne we beseech thee and now visite it in thy mercie and wee will not goe backe from thee but cal vpon thy name I returne to thee ô Londō preach thou also the Lords mercie he hath not vndon or dissolued thy cōposition nor couerd thee with brambles hee hath not vtterly destroyed thee as Babilon The great Niniuie Troy Ierusalem and the rest of which wee may truely say O iam periere ruina the verie ruines of them are gone to ruine thou standest yet and I hope shalt flourish as much as thou euer didst if the former iudgement mooue thee to repentance I will conclude with a paradoxe Mercie we had desired the former yeere and mercy hee hath also shewen the former yeere A paradoxe the trueth whereof the euent of the former yeere hath manifested yea by the sending of the Plague The Lord hath heard our prayers If this seeme strange to you beloued I will expound the paradoxe In the beginning of the yeere when that Noble Princesse Elizabeth of famous memory fell sicke during her disease wee mourned sighed and lamented We were heauie and much troubled many righteous soules prayed vnto the Lord and in their prayers desired two thinges of the Lord first that if she should come to die that hee would not suffer them to fall into the hands of men Secondly that hee would bee mercyfull to Sion and not dispearse and scatter them but gather keepe together his church and beholde the Lord hath heard our prayers he hath not suffered vs to fal into the hands of men he hath sent a pestilence by which we are fallen into his handes for what is the Plague but a fall into God his hands according to the definition of DAVID Further he hath not dispersed but rather called and gathered many of vs vnto himselfe for what is death else but a gathering vnto our fathers a departure vnto God The Lord hath called many of his children frō Schoole frō the Schoole of this world where they had learned no good he hath called them to that heauenly vniuersity Many had desired to see the tryumphes of the cittie but the Lord in his mercy hath made them to see a better tryumph in that permanent Cittie and heauenly Ierusalem Many had desired to see the Coronation of their newe Prince but the Lord in hss mercy hath made thē to see a better Coronation the Coronation of the Prince of glorie of the true SALOMON Christ Iesus yea he hath made many the royall priest-hood Apo. 1. Thus thē beloued of LONDON I haue amplyfied vnto you the mercy of the Lord which hath onely staied the Angels sword or else it would haue gone forward There is no comparison betwixt the mercy of God and the mercy of men It is reported that MARCELLVS after that his souldiers had conquered SIRACVSA not without the great slaughter of many was so compassionate ouer them that hee went vp to the highest Towre in the Castle with teares lamented the