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A01346	A sermon intended for Paul's Crosse, but preached in the Church of St. Paul's, London, the III. of December, M.DC.XXV. Vpon the late decrease and withdrawing of Gods heauie visitation of the plague of pestilence from the said citie. By Tho: Fuller, Master of Arts in Pembroke-Hall in Cambridge	Fuller, Thomas, Master of Arts.	1626 (1626)	STC 11467; ESTC S102824	32,124	70

sends him for hee refresheth the soule of his Master saith Salomon Prou. 25. 13. Here is a faithfull Mercury a winged Messenger that in so short a space hath climbed vp into the highest Heauen and gotten Audience What manicles to the hands of Gods iustice are the cryes of poore afflicted penitent men that will not suffer him to proceed in his intended vengeance Nay rather then they shall faile God himselfe shall seeme to bee mutable who though he threatneth Niniueh without any hope of escape yet vpon those prayers is intreated to spare them Or rather how gratious is our God and willing to be thus intreated who vpon the first call answers and performes hee in the Gospell when his friend did but knock at an vnseasonable time answered the doores were lockt the children were in bed so did not satisfie his desire but for a loafe of bread But no such thing here no time in all our life is vnseasonable the first the second the third 〈◊〉 hee heares and opens Bis qui citò the bene●●● is double that is speedily performed The Priests of Baal prayed from morning till noone and could get no answer but the first word of Elias fetcht fire And indeed how should such suppliants praying to such deities be heard for what taste is there in the white of an Egge or how can Baal or any other liuing or dead creature heare or helpe when they cannot helpe themselues It is onely the infinite Maker and creator of the eare that can heare all men at all places at all times altogether No Saint no Angell no forged or feigned god-head can doe that but onely the God of all power and might the mightie God of Heauen and Earth Vna eademque manus vulnus opemque tulit He that bruised can againe binde vp hee that made the wound can and onely did cure it now the means which he vsed was his Word Hee sent his Word and healed them c. This is that Delphian Sword or vniuersall Instrument which hee vsed in framing the World with all that therein is Hee said let there bee Light and there was light Let there be Firmament let the Waters be gathered into one place and let the drie Land appeare and all was fulfilled and Hee still vpholdeth all things by the Word of his power Heb. 1. What is his Word now but the reall and effectuall performance of what hee intends he but speakes and all things in Heauen and Earth and the great Deepes presently are obedient I see now as man liues not by bread alone but by euery word which proceedes out of the mouth of God so hee is not cured by Phisicke alone but by the onely blessing of the omnipotent Word of God No meanes can preuaile without that and that with without besides yea against all meanes can easily bee preualent No God can deliuer as the God of the three Children can as the King confessed whose Dicere is his Facere His onely Word is able to bring mighty things to passe Whatsoeuer seeme impossibilities to man are easily brought to passe by him that can doe all things The Sea will bee calme Diseases vanish all the Creatures are morigerous yea Diuels themselues are obedient to this Word onely Man dares to rebell against it but hee that will not bend at the Word of his command shall bee broken at the Word of his Power They that allegorise this part of Scripture as Hugo Cardinalis and Lorinus make this Disease a farther proceeding in the wayes of impiety a sitting downe in the chayre of vngodlinesse a deliuering vp from one sinne to another and are at last growne to that height that they care no more for their soule then if they had none the Word and Sacraments the onely food of their soules they neglect and despise it is as Wormewood to their taste or smoake to their eyes they so wholly deuote themselues to sensuality as it might seeme to grieue them non quadrupedes esse natos that they might freely take their pleasure and delight yet at last God hath a hooke to drawe these in a meanes to enlighten and preserue them Though they bee dead in sinnes and trespasses and with Lazarus buried in the graue yet if the Lord doe but say Exi foras come forth of that Mare mortuum wherein like Ionas in the belly of the Whale or rather of Hell as himselfe called it they are entombed their Fetters fall presently from them as they did from Peter in the Prison they come to acknowledge themselues Fooles wicked and rebellious to say with Pharaoh I haue sinned against the Lord. This is wrought by the power of his Word that cibus inconsumptibilis as Ciprian called it that immortall Word which St Iohn saith was in the beginning the onely begotten Sonne of God our blessed Sauiour Hee like the Brasen Serpent cures all foule-diseased that looke vp to him I vrge not this Interpretation to any I know one sinne is oftentimes the punishment of another as when Israel had prouoked God hee stirred vp Dauid to number the people and it is the fearefullest judgement that can bee to heape more coales vpon the head of the delinquent by giuing them ouer to their owne hearts lust I know also that there is a death of the soule as of the body Etiam viuens mortua est saith St. Paul of a woman liuing in pleasure there is a death spirituall as temporall out of which God is able to deliuer Nay his Word that is the second Person in Trinitie came for that end into the world was made flesh and tooke our nature vpon him not for the righteous but to call sinners to repentance yea though they were twice dead as hee was called twice a Murtherer Semel consilio iterum spectaculo Once in the act and a second time in the glorying in it Yet there is a blessing in this dead Elme though he be consumed as a Sheepe in the mouth of a Lyon to a legge or an eare or as a blocke in the fire to a stumpe yet the least breath of his mouth is able to reuiue him But the context me thinkes giues no great warrant for this exposition hauing both before and after spoken of temporall dangers and deliuerances from them I see no reason why it should be thought that herein onely he speakes of spirituall danger and a spirituall deliuerance I haue hitherto shewed you this disease with the cause and the effect of it The Phisition also I haue brought you acquainted with together with his Phisicke that if euer there bee the like need againe wee may with boldnesse approach the same throne of grace and obtaine the like mercy Probatum est may be subscribed to this Recipe so many sighes mingled with teares and a quantity of faith enfused taken in poculo charitatis and the blessing of our Doctor is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for all diseases a ●ure Antidote