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A10078	Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall. As it vvas follovved in a sermon preached in Christs-church in London, the 22. of Ianuarie. 1626. Vpon occasion of the publique thanksgiuing, enioyned by his maiesties proclamation. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1626 (1626)	STC 20332; ESTC S114330	24,161	47

in the sight of all flesh beloued of God and men His memoriall is blessed There is a remembrance of iniuries whereas the best remedy of an iniury is forgetting And at Athens it was enacted a decree obliuionis iniuriarum of forgetting of iniuries for when Thrasibulus had freed the Citie of thirty Tyrants and restored it to peace hee made a Law that none should remember any iniuries past which the Athenians call the Law of obliuion and this we reade of the Emperour Augustus who though of a most tenacious and retentiue memory Iniurias tamen cum primis obliuisceretur could yet forget wrongs as soone as they were offered To this end is that remembrance thou shalt not auenge nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people that remember thy end and let enmity passe that as when Bees fight the casting of a little dust vpon them endeth their strife so the remembrance of our end by common mortality in pestilence or otherwise still toling for the last gaspe should ring out the death of malice burie all wrongs in the graue of obliuion neuer to rise vp againe But I must not forget the remembrance of God the remembrance of vs here Hee remembreth his mercie and truth towards Israel Hee remembreth vs and visiteth vs and reuengeth vs of our persecutors hee taketh vs not away in his long suffering Hee being gracious and full of compassion hath made his wonderfull workes to be remembred Therefore hee commanded that a golden pot of Manna should be kept to remember what bread the children of Israel had in the wildernes The Sacrament of the Lords supper is a remembrance of the death passion of our blessed Sauiour All the feasts enioyned Israel required of them a memoriall of Gods benefits done vnto them The twelue Cakes on the pure table before the Lord were for a memoriall Dauid appointed the Leuites to record and to thanke and praise the Lord God of Israel They that escaped of the sword when they were scattered were to remember him among the Nations The two stones vpon the shoulder of the Ephod were for a memoriall vnto Aaron Ieremie remembring his afflictions miserie and wormewood and Gall his soule was humbled yet he hoped Ionas remembred the Lord and his soule fainted when no doubtfull earthly naturall helpe could release him when his father mother friend land sea his soule all had forsaken him yet the Lord tooke him vp and gaue him better hope Isai made mention of the louing kindnes of the Lord and the praises of the Lord his great goodnesse and multitude of louing kindnesses Neuer did Dauid more truly remember Ierusalem If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning If I doe not remember thee let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth a greater torment hee wished not to his enemie in the Poet Nec possis captas inde referre manus Sic fit in exitium lingua proterua tuum God hath plagues in store for them that forget him They shall bee deliuered into the hands of their enemies as the Israelites forgetting the Lord were sold into the hands of Sisera they wither in their greenesse before any other hearb their hope being cut of They forget God and stretch out their hands to a strange God and then God searcheth this out they shall haue their sins set in order before them and bee torne in pieces and none shall deliuer them they haue forgotten God and trusted in falshood therefore their skirts shall bee discouered vpon their face that their shame may appeare Though then thou forget to take bread for a Iourney as the Disciples did or forget thy friend in thy mind and be vnmindfull of him in thy riches Remember the Lord. Thy brethren may be put farre from thee thine acquaintance estranged thy kinsfolke may faile and thy familiar friends forget thee thy Louers may forget thee and not seeke thee there may be none to plead thy cause but the Lord remembreth vs prouoke him not therefore forget not the euerlasting God that brought you vp grieue not Ierusalem that nursed you There are some things that especially affect the memorie and we shall find all singular in God Assidnum Mirum Cognatum Dulce Decorum Triste Nouum Munus Amor Aetas Spes Timor Auctor Are we mindfull of things frequent and vsuall In God wee liue moue and haue our being Of things wonderfull His Name is wonderfull The Mighty God The Euerlasting Father Of things neere vs or persons alyed Wee are all his off-spring Of pleasant things O taste and see how the Lord is good Doe wee remember Faire Beautifull Goodly things He is fayrer then the children of men Sadde and sorrowfull things Behold and see if there be any sorrow like that of the Son of God Gifts There is a New-yeeres gift The Lord hath created a New thing in the earth A woman shall compasse a man Loue God so loued the world that he gaue his onely begotten Sonne Carry wee in memorie our age wee are his deare children as new borne babes Any thing we hope for No hope to that for the Sauiour who shall change our vile bodies Any thing we feare There is one wise and greatly to be feared the Lord sitting vpon his throne Our Benefactours Euery good and perfect gift is from the Father of lights King Dauid had infirmities and did beare them but this was his supporter I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most High I will remember the workes of the Lord Surely I will remember thy wonders of olde Wonderfull are the workes of Nature but more wonderfull are the workes of grace in our Iustification A wonder it was that the dead was raysed but a greater wonder that a poore fisherman whose hands were practised in his old torne netts and feete in the slime and mud of the sea should haue the power on a suddaine of conuerting soules A wonder that 's aboue all wonders that the Creator should become a creature with his bloud restore the lost sheepe from death to life yet thus He hath remembred his holy Couenant to deliuer vs from our Enemies Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe they may yet God will not forget vs. He remembreth vs that wee may remember him This made those who receiued blessings vnexspected from God to keepe some speciall memoriall as Leah conceiuing and bearing a sonne shee called his name Reuben for shee sayd The Lord hath looked vpon my affliction now therfore my husband will loue me She bare another sonne and called him Simeon Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated He hath giuen

people yet hee must pray himselfe then God spake and gaue most comfortable signes of his fauours So hath hee miraculously suddenly most graciously stopped the current of his fury amongst vs. Hee hath not dealt so with others How fearefull was that Plague in Phrygia Galatia Capadocia Cilicia when no one remedie could be found for any infected That among the Vandals when according to the Prouerb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after a famine the pestilence was so great that the liuing could not burie the dead and the high wayes were full of carkasses That vnder Iustinian when in Constantinople and neere there abouts there dyed at least fiue thousand and sometimes ten thousand in one day That mētioned by Euagrius which ran ouer the whole world when men might haue cōplained Macies noua febrium terris in cubuit cohors It continued 52. yeares he lost his wife many of his children the greatest part of his kindred whomsoeuer it tooke it dispatched out of the way It exceeded all diseases that euer were before How fearefull was that Plague in Alexandria described by Eusebius Now all is replenished with lamentations Euery man howleth through the Citie There is no house where a dead carkasse is not found That in Rome when saith Chronicon Fuldense scarce the tenth man remained aliue nay but ten men in all were preserued saith Chronicon Isenacense I leade you too farre To keepe in our owne Kingdome and neere home In the Reigne of Edw. 3. there was a Plague in this Kingdome that tooke away more then the halfe of men and in one yeare of this in the Charter house were buried aboue fifty thousand and it dispeopled almost vtterly a great Towne Wallingford in Barkshiere bringing 12. Churches to 2. See how much more sparing the Lord hath been of vs your memory may be fresh in recalling to minde that Plague in the beginning of the Reigne of Royall King IAMES from the 23. of December Anno 1602. to the 23. of Decem. Anno 1623. wherein there dyed thirty thousand fiue hundreth seuenty eight and this to be stayed that the next yere there dyed in London the Liberties but foure thousand two hundreth sixty three of all diseases And in this late Visitation God so manifested his mercie that from the 25. of August it decreased from 3344. to 2550. and then to 1672. and then to 1551. and then to 852. and then to 538. And this last weeke but to three and Lord let thine Angel not strike any one more among vs with the Plague Let this remembrance euer be written on the dores of our hearts Say not as Babylon I shall be a Lady for euer Dauid fore-saw a curse vpon it for that pride of heart Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth the little ones against the stones It was fulfilled the enemie came Natum ante ora patris patrem obtruncauit ad aras Let not the Merchant burthen his memorie only with his Creditours nor the Lawyer with his Clyents nor the Landlord with his Rents nor the Husbandman with his Cattell nor the Captaine with his Souldiers nor the Physitian with his Patients but let all keepe a Register of this blacke Plague in red letters in the Ephemerides of their memory and the staying of it It was not the season and coldnesse of the weather that stopped it Posseuinus writes that when hee was Ambassadour for the Pope in Moscouia the Plague which had scarce euer beene heard of before in that Country ob intensissima frigora by reason of extreame colde yet killed then many thousands It was not a Popish Prayer to Saint Roche Tu qui Deo es tam charus Et in luce valde clarus Sana tuos famulos Et a peste nos defende God alone is our defense forget him not The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God Study not for a vain-glorious commemoration of thy good workes after thy death Set God as a seale vpon thine heart as a seale vpon thine arme Hee is as a bundle of Myrrhe vnto vs let him lye all night betwixt our breasts neuer breath but remember him at morning noone and night at thy lying downe and rising vp staying at home or going a Iourney This Remembrance shall put vs in minde of our Profession and heauenly Countrey It shall shut the dore to all vncleane actions It shall comfort vs when we are alone Let him bee the α and ο of our remembrance When the Iewes were building in Ierusalem the Nations whom Noble Asnappar brought and set in the Cities of Samaria wrote to Artaxerxes telling him If this Cittie be builded then will not the Iewes pay tole tribute and custome and so thou shalt endamage the reuenue of the Kings Because we haue maintenance from the Kings palace it was not meete for vs to fee the Kings dishonour therefore haue wee sent and certified the King The greatest dishonour to God is to forget him and would we but Remember what he hath done for vs wee would not so suffer his Word to be despised Ministers wronged his holy day to be prophaned and other sinnes to out-braue Authoritie which in time will pull another plague downe It was a graue conclusion of the Senatours of Troy concerning Helena the worlds wonder for beautie and excellent parts That though shee were such a one and vnmatchable yet Rid her hence say they rather then to vs and our posteritie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She should abide here for a snare and destruction The counsell was wise but Indulgence refusing it it brought forth twentie foure bookes of Iliads an Iliad of miseries The Philosopher elegantly applyeth it to any vice seeme it neuer so delightfull O that wee would banish from vs the vice of our Kingdome Forgetfulnes of God O that wee would Remember that from him we haue whatsoeuer good thing wee haue and deliuerance from all euill He giueth his Angels charge of vs to keepe vs in all our wayes which charge is not onely begun to be executed in Baptisme as some would haue it or when there is the vse of Reason manifested but in the birth yea in the conception Sure it is they watch ouer vs and yet all see it not and when they see it it is by the effect of their Ministry For though their Ministry be certaine yet the Manifestation of it is extraordinary He by the heauens giueth vnto vs Influences least we languish with famine He feedeth vs with the fruits of the earth He blessed our Land by the gouernment of famous Queene Elizabeth who with so long so great wisedome and felicitie gouerned her Kingdomes as the like hath not beene read or heard of sayd Learned King IAMES when he reigned in Scotland either in our time or since the daies of the Roman Emperour Augustus Lopez was

the maine Ocean of all vncleannes and filthinesse of fornication Beware of contemners of the Gospell called dogges by Christ Giue not that which is holy vnto the dogges such as will fully resist the truth and barke at the Ministers of the word Beware of Schismatickes who though they be not altogether so dangerous as the Bloud-hounds of Babylon yet are they very troublesome tearing the Church and running themselues drawing others from the Church and so from Christ Neuer goe abroad but with the Pomander of faith full of the sweet spices of good workes God hath beene mindfull of vs and can encrease you more and more you and your children The dead praise him not but the liuing must blesse him O therefore that men would praise the Lord for his goodnes and for his wonderfull workes to the children of men An Eucharistical song euer to be repeated for any blessing as Bernard presseth it speaking of the custodie of Angels O that men would praise the Lord for his goodnesse for Dauid repeates it v. 15.21.31 Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people Not because as Hugo Princes forget to exalt God but magnifie themselues but that all must exalt him high and lowe rich and poore olde and young Princes and Subiects And exalt him with a song in the Churches Amongst other songs take that especially O giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is good for his mercie endureth for euer O giue thankes vnto the God of Gods for his mercie endureth for euer O giue thankes to the Lord of Lords for his mercie endureth for euer A Psalme which being sung at the consecration of the Temple the fire came downe from heauen and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices and the glory of the Lord filled the house A Psalme which Iehoshaphat appointed singers among the Inhabitants of Iudah and Ierusalem in the wildernesse of TEKOA to sing and then the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammor Moab and mount Seir which were come against Iudah and they were smitten Let vs not vncharitably censure those that are gone downe into silence by the arrowe of the Plague Learned Gesner dyed of the Plague a little before his death calling for some of his papers in his Studie giuing a charge that the world should not be depriued of them He that wrote of Stones Gardens Libraries Measures foure footed beasts Birds Fishes of Hearbs Chirurgerie Measures Medicines Francis Iunius the glory of Leyden the oracle of Textuall and Schoole Diuinitie rich in Languages subtill in distinguishing in argument inuincible dyed of the Plague A fixed starre in the firmament of that Church a hammer of Heretiques Champion of the truth the honour of the Schooles I could name some of your owne religious Diuines in this Citie who dyed of the Plague for whom the Congregation may mourne and would God the losse could be as easily supplyed as lamented Resolute Camillus dyed of the Plague hauing saued his vnthankfull Country from the Veians and after from the Galles Iob had the Plague when he had vl●us ex caliditate that Botch which proceeded from that burning heate in his body and as it is probable beneath the reines betwixt the thigh and the belly or bowels which is the flanke or graine into which place the confluence of vitious corrupt and malignant humours commonly betake themselues as being one of Natures Emunctories and a part prepared for euacuation of Impostumation by reason of the tendernesse and rarity of the skinne and other passages All his body ouer was almost a plague Let vs aboue all sores fl●● the plague of sinne It is in vaine to purge our houses cleanse our streetes perfume our apparell vnlesse we beware of the Infections of the soule We haue liued to meete againe our friends O let vs not by our corruptions make them Gods enemies Wee haue vowed to bee new creatures in Christ Iesus when wee were vnder the rod Remember that Aegrotus surgit sed pia vota valent Take this Antidote against poyson IVSTICE will strike vs with greater Plagues being deliuered from the former if we mocke it with broken deuotion O let our thankfull hearts testifie our contrite spirits Let the house of Iudah the Royall COVRT remember this deliuerance and acknowledge that God can breake those who will not bowe Let them banish those Moaths and Mice of Flatterers Epicures doubling professours bad counsailours who clime high to fall foule and let not that olde writing vnder the picture of Ignatius Loyola be forgotten Cauete vobis Principes Be wise O yee Princes Let Moses and Aaron Prince and Priest remember that the Lord is their helpe and guide and as the Priest hath beene zealous to pray Spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most pretious bloud from Plague and Pestilence so now let them sing Glory be to God on high and in earth peace good will toward man Let Samuel among the Prophets and the young children of the Prophets remember this deliuerance Their buildings haue beene stately Reuenues large Students many but they haue beene scared feared driuen thence yet now the voyce of ioy and health is in their dwellings OXFORD hath bin visited and CAMBRIDGE threatned Let vs of this Citie especially remember this Great deliuerances should haue great remembrances Now againe your Ierusalem is as a Citie compact againe Now are the Tribes come vp againe Now againe here are the Thrones of Iudgement the Thrones of the house of Dauid Vpon which Lord let there be euer men of courage fearing thee dealing truly hating couetousnesse that they may appeare confidently before the great Parliament of heauen Let vs all take vp that of our Prophet Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard the voyce of our s●pplications The Lord is our strength and our shield our heart trusted in him and we are helped therefore our heart greatly reioyceth and with our song will wee praise him The Lord is our strength and the sauing strength of his Annointed Saue thy people and blesse thine inheritance feede them lift them vp for euer that so being comforted after our affliction raised vp after our detection and cloathed with immortality after this mortality wee may hereafter with the Angels round about his Throne worship him saying Amen Blessing and glorie and wisedome and thankesgiuing and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euer and euer AMEN FINIS Re 3.19 De. 28.27.58.59 2. Sa. 24 16. Js 61.3 Amb. de Theodosio Aequitatis Iudex nonpaenae arbiter Ps 82.1 Ps 34.19 1 Sa. 21.1 Euseb Bas Ps 78.71 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods hand shooke his house from the foundation Bas 1. Sa. 21.13 Ps 62.1 3. Co. lit Potil c. 18. Bas hom Ie. 2.20 Am. l. 1. de Sac. c. 1. Gre. 18. Mor. c. 19. Js 52.7 Jo. 13.14 Bar. se 45.