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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01800	The arke of noah for the Londoners that remaine in the cittie to enter in, with their families, to be preserued from the deluge of the plague. Item, an exercise for the Londoners that are departed out of the cittie into the coutnrey, to spend their time till they returne. Whereunto is annexed an epistle sent out of the countrey, to the afflicted cittie of London. Made and written by Iames Godskall the yonger, preacher of the word.	Godskall, James.	1604 (1604)	STC 11935; ESTC S120518	49,399	68

necessarie that we know the name of the place whereunto we go secondly that we haue feet to beare carie vs thither thirdly that we haue a directiō that we might not erre fourthly that wee haue some right interest there or some acquaintance that we may be receiued So likewise these foure things are necessarie to be knowne of vs in our spirituall departure Touching the name of the place whereunto Dauid fled in the time of plague as it hath diuers names so in this place it is called the name of Iehouah Heere I pertermit the fiue seueral significations of the name of the Lord vsed in the book of God taking it in this place first for the Lord himself secondly for his attributes by which hee doth manifest himselfe Of which Moses Num 14. bringeth in a perfect catalogue the Lord hath deliuered this his name by proclamation Exo. 34. 5. 6. The Lord the Lord strong merciful gratious slow to anger aboundant in goodnes and truth c. God then the almightie eternall immortall inuisible Lord the iudge of the world Psal 94. 2. God merciful gratious the supreme phisition of our soules who healeth all our iniquities Psal 103. God to whom power belongeth and whose is saluation alone Psal 62. is the place it selfe whereunto Dauid and wee ought to flie from the contagion The name of a place if it be known famous and renowned hath often much force to perswade vs rather to goe vnto such a place then vnto such or such surely there was neuer name of place more worthy to goe vnto then the name of Iehouah O ye righteous soules that thirst by reason of the heate of the plague vpon your beddes flie vnto this place to the waters of comfort here are wels enough to be drawne at this is the name which God hath proclaimed to the world and whereby he would be knowne to men that if euer they come to him they may speake their mindes in the confidence and trust of this amiable name Esteeme it not strange beloued that the name of a place is attributed to the Lord for that he is a place of refuge three things are able to prooue First the witnes of God himselfe second the confession of the righteous third the word running here vsed by king Salomon As for the Lord he doth attribute vnto himselfe this name by the pen of the holy Ghost calling himselfe a secret place psal 91. 1. a throne of grace Hebr. 4. 16. a refuge psal 9. 9. a fortresse psal 18. 2. a strong towre and such lyke more Secondly this is the confession of the righteous Of Dauid the father in diuers places psal 18. 2. The Lord is my fortresse and my refuge and in the 32. 7. Thou art my secret place compas●est me about with ioyfull deliuerance and so Psal 94. 22. This is also the confession of the sonne in this place and of all the Saints of God vnto whose confessions I referre you as they are set downe by the holy Ghost in the booke of God Thirdly the word runneth implieth as much which giueth me entrance to the second point opening vnto vs the feete which we neede to goe vnto this place the which if ye are desirous to know they are two in number Faith and Praier Faith the first for if by faith we stand 2. Cor. 1. 24. by faith we may also goe to the lord who is faithful Now how could we go vnto him by the feete of prayer if we did not beleeue in him Rom 10. 14. The second is prayer a spirituall legge to beare vs thither noted by Salomon making mention of running by Ionas speaking of comming Iohn 2. ver 7. And my prayer come vnto thee in thine holy temple By the Apostle whē he speaketh of going let vs therfore goe vnto the throne of grace Heb. 4. 16. Lastly by the holy Ghost vsing this word Climbing Apoc. 8. 4. Both the name of the place which is appointed for vs to goe vnto and the spirituall legs which the Lord hath giuen vs to carrie vs thither doe preach vnto the sonnes of men the admirable goodnes and mercie of the Lord toward them In this world wee are as pilgrims Psal 119. hauing here no continuing Citie Heb 13. 14 and while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2. Cor. 5. 6. In which pilgrimage Many are the troubles of the righteous Psal 34. O the great goodnesse of the Lord then that hee hath giuen vs feete to come vnto him and made himselfe a place of refuge for vs in all our troubles which goodnesse is comfortable vnto the faithfull for as it is a comfort vnto the pilgrim shepheard or souldier to haue in the heate of the day a place of refuge to refresh their wearied members So likewise what a comfort is it for you O afflicted soules in the heate of your afflictions to haue the name of Iehouah for a sacred Sanctuarie the Lord is not like vnto the princes of the earth who desire not to be molested with the requests of their distressed subiects It is a ioy to the wearied student that he may sometime come home to his fathers house and recreate himselfe Into this world the Lord hath sent vs as in an Vniuersitie which although it is farre off from our fathers house yet the Lord hath giuen vs spirituall feete by which in a moment we can ascend vnto our fathers house and recreate there our wearied spirits This world is a waste desart if wee neede any thing here are the legges by which speedily wee may runne to this place and prouide our selues If the Lord hath cast vs downe vpon our beds and that wee can not vse the feete of our bodies behold hee hath giuen vs other feete to vse in steade of these King Ezekias visited with the plague could not vse the feete of the flesh but with the feete of the spirit went vnto this place knowen vnto him by the name of Iehouah Ionas is locked vp in a prison in the belly of the Whale the Lords prison and can not stirre himselfe and yet by the vertue of these feete out of the depth he ascendeth to the holy temple of Iehouah Now that these feete may be able to beare vs thither and that they may not faile vs in our voyage they must put on the hose of faith and as the Apostle speaketh our feete must be shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace And as the feete to that Image of Daniel were part of yron part of clay which the Prophet expoundeth partly strong partly weake or broken So the feete of our prayers are according to the hosen wherewith they are couered if they put on feare and distrustfulnesse they will bee shiuering and sinking downeward of clay weake and impotent if they put on faith and confidence in the mercies of God they will be feete of yron strong stable and

his appearing 1. Cor. 1. 7. So continue in the Lord Phi. 4. 1. And be not weary in well doing 2. Thes 3. 13. And I am perswaded of this same thing that hee that hath begun this good worke in you will performe it Phil. 1. 6. Follow the zeale of Abraham in his prayer for Sodome the longer hee talked with God the more he gained And as Abraham although he had begun to speake once twise thrice vnto the Lord yet he continued Behold I haue begun to speake vnto my Lord and am but dust ashes let not my Lord bee angrie and I will speake againe So although yee haue begun to speake vnto the Lord for London that the fire might be quenched yee that may speake with Abraham we are but dust and ashes yet speake againe pray continually Rom. 12. For the Lord will not bee angrie as hee was not angrie with Abrahams instant request but as he gaue him a patient eare and a gracious answere Ver. 32. so the same God will heare our prayers It pleaseth the eares of his Maiestie to be long intreated he that hath twise and tentimes together ingeminated the riches of his mercie Exod. 34. The Lord the Lord is mercifull gracious slow to anger aboundant in goodnesse and trueth reseruing mercy for thousands forgetting iniquitie and sinne what did he meane thereby but that twise and tentimes together we should crie for his mercie And as Abraham by his continuance and ingeminating prayer brought the Lord from fiftie to fortie fiue from fortie fiue to fortie from fortie to thirtie from thirtie to twentie and lastly from twentie to ten So continue and ingeminate your prayer endeuour by your continuance to diminish the number and to bring it from thirtie foure hundreth to thirtie from thirtie to two hundreth from twentie to ten from ten hundreth to ten persons and yet not then cease to speake vnto the Lords as Abraham did and what shall not your prayer obtaine I may speake vnto you that which Zedekias said to the Princes of his land The King can denie you nothing So the King of heauen will denie you nothing Zedekias spake it in a seruile and popular affection that hee bare to the Princes of his land but God speaketh it out of the aboundance and riches of his mercie And therefore O Lord let thy mercie triumph against iustice that both great and small the infant and dumbe beast may sing of thy louing kindnesse With this wish I will end beseeching brethren for our Lord Iesus Christs sake and for the loue of the spirit that ye would striue with vs by praiers to God Rom. 15. 13. Praying also for vs Col. 4. 3. Finally beloued fare yee well it is the Apostles farewell to the Corinthians bee of good comfort and of one minde The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the loue of God and the comming of the holy Ghost be with you all Amen Written at Springfield the 28. of September 1603. Your wel-wisher in the Lord Iames Godskal the yonger THE ARKE OF NOAH Collected out of the 18. Chapter of the Prouerbs verse 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth vnto it and is preserued Confirmed by the practise of King Dauid 1. Chron. Chap. 21. ver 17. and 26. And he called vpon the Lord and hee answered him by fire from heauen THe whole Colledge of the bodily Physitians and the prince of them that wise and learned Galen prescribe for the time of Plague that of all remedies to preuent the contagion the best is to flie and shunne the infected and corrupted ayre and to depart vnto a wholesome and purer ayre and that with these three rules Citò longè tradè Depart speedily farre off and returne slowly As this is physically prescribed so it is diligently practised as daily experience teacheth of all sorts of men yea of the Physitians themselues I will not contradict the prescription of the Physitian nor disprooue the diligence of the sonnes of men if they vse departure lawfully therein not sinning Contra patriam charitatem vecationem against their Countrey their calling and Christian charitie But because by the corruption of our nature we suffer our selues as with maine sayle to be carried away from the Creator to the creature fixing all our senses more vpon the aeriall corruption then vpon the inward cause of the contagion the rottennesse of our bones which we carrie within our selues and are more carefull to depart into the Countrey then vnto the Lord as if by the swiftnesse of our feete we could out-runne him who rideth vpon the wings of the Cherubims which causeth that the Lord hath a Pursiphant which hee sendeth to arrest some in the pure ayre namely the Plague it selfe which hath arrested some in the Countrey as the experience of this yeere sheweth vnto vs all verifying the threatning of the Lord Deut. 28. 22. This is the reason why the whole Colledge of the spirituall Physition of our soules haue prescribed for the time of Plague a better flight and departure then that which is prescribed by Galen and the rest namely to the name of Iehouah by the feete of prayer mentioned and storied by that wise Salomon in the words prefixed And as it is prescribed so it hath beene practised of the Saints of God among the rest of King Dauid in the time of Plague as the second place adioyning vnto the first doth witnesse Of this place then which is the right Arke and the little Zoar whereunto our first care ought to bee in the time of plague to depart and which is also the trustie friend and seruant to aide the sicke and the exercise for them that are departed to spend the time till they returne giue me leaue Christian Readers to discourse out of the harmonie of these two places here prefixed To pray well saith Chrysostome is an excellent art which doth adorne a Christian but it is not sufficient to know that we must pray but also in what manner and therefore that we might the better be instructed in the going to this place and become skilfull in this art I will braunch the description of this place into these three seuerall parts which will store vs with a cluster of singular meditations The first is the name of the place it is the name of the Lord. The second is the qualitie condition propertie and the safenesse of it expressed in two things First because it is a strong towre secondly by the successe of those that runne vnto it and is exalted or deliuered which is the thing which they receiue that run to it The third thing is what maner of persons they must be that flie to it and what househould stuffe they must carrie thither with them to be receiued noted in these words the rightious runneth vnto it As for the place let me obserue 〈◊〉 things For as in the time of plague for our departure first it is