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A04836 A sermon of deliuerance Preached at the Spittle on Easter Monday, 1626. Vpon entreatie of the Lord Maior and aldermen. Published by authoritie. And dedicated to the Citie of London. By Henry King D.D. one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie. King, Henry, 1592-1669. 1626 (1626) STC 14968; ESTC S108023 30,413 86

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Goe yee cursed into euerlasting fire I fixe not vpon this Interpretation though very warrantable but follow our English Translation which iustly agrees with the Hebrew From the noysome pestilence which literally imports that contagion a Schooleman defines to be Morbus venenosus vel lues bominum a sicknes which vsually is to all and hath lately bin to vs so mortall Thus Lormus also out of Authentique Copies reads it A peste pessima seu quâlibet pestilenti or de peste aerumniosissimâ The Chaldee paraphrase is de Morte atque Tumultu from Death and Tumult which I take to be a iust Periphrasis of the Plague that being of all others the most tumultuous kind of Death Since like a furious Torrent that beares downe trees and houses it sweeps whole Families whole streets nay whole Cities insomuch that the liuing haue not bin sufficient to burie the dead Such a Mortalitie as this was there in the ninth yeere of Edward the second Nor is it only tumultuous in regard of the Numbers that die but in regard of their Buriall too When euery Churchyard is made vallis Mortis the valley of Death and the bodies piled and built one vpon another make in Iobs phrase a rick rather then a Graue where for want of earth one coarse is couered with another Which must needs beget this Epithet Noysome putrifie the Aire so much that as Solinus reports of the Lake Avernus and the dead Sea whose steame kills all that draw it in birds flying ouer those Cemeteries haue dropt downe and Men that suckt it vp like children ouerlayed by their Nurses haue bin impoysoned by that Aire which nourished them Kingdoms and States are called Bodies because Metaphorically they are so The King is the Heart the Counsell the Braine the Magistrate the Hand And there is this true Accord betwixt those Politicall and the Naturall Bodies that they haue distempers like vs their Agues that shake them their sicknesses and their Deaths too As there is an appointed Time for Man vpon Earth so for all Man is Lord of Empires haue their Periods and those Periods to them as Graues to vs. Babylon and Persia and Greece and Rome which successiuely buried one another the last Suruiuer as Executor to the rest inheriting all that the Three first had shew that Monarchies sicken like Men die sometimes of Age oftner of Wounds It hath bin obserued that one whole part of the Earth hath bin sick at once For in the yeres 1349. and 1579. an Epidemicall sicknes ran thorow all Europe But Euagrius writes of a Plague that ouerspread the whole World To speake more directly some diligent Obseruers haue deliuered it as Dogmaticall that particular Cities haue their Criticall Dayes their Climactericall Yeares and that most constantly Euery third yeare saith Boterus is a climacterick dangerous and fatall to the Grand Cairo in Aegypt in which three hundred thousand commonly die of the Plague And the fift or seuenth to Constantinople the Mortalitie costing her scarcely fewer then two hundred thousand Our Land and in it our Metropolis London our Mother Citie hath like Ierusalem mourned in the Dust for the calamitie of her Children and death of her Inhabitants We haue had our Climactericall yeares as well as other places Some haue noted the Twentieth or thereabouts to haue bin mortall to vs which though it hath held currant for these two last Visitations I draw not into conclusion that it should still hold I thinke rather the whole Land sensible of the losse of her DEBORAH and our late most gratious SALOMON of euer blessed Memorie whose Exequies deseru'd a lamentation not lesse then that which was made for Iosiah in the valley of Hadadremmon to performe rites worthy such Funerals mourned in Death shedding Liues in stead of Teares For any other cause certainly I am perswaded it is not in the discretion of Nature to dyet her selfe to set out her sicke dayes no more then to appoint her well but meerly in the direction of God who vses her but as his handmaid to effect his purposes when and how He pleaseth It was one of Manes his Phanaticall dreames amongst many others that a certaine Spirit in the aire called Messor diffuses that contagion which breeds the Pestilence His drift was only to establish that Diabolicall conclusion of his concerning his Two beginnings one whereof produces good the other bad and so to ioyne an other Power in commission with God And surely they that impute Gods iudgements to Nature and because they are able to trace an Infection to the first Body that died or can distinguish betwixt a contagion receiued Per contactum from other bodies or occasioned by an infected Aire conclude a Pestilence to be nothing else but a Malignitie of course proceeding from an ill coniunction of Planets or the concurrence of some other disaffected causes in Nature derogate from God and are in a faire way to Atheisme I can by the helpe of Philosophie and obseruation assigne some probable reason of the Earthquake or Thunder defining the one to be a vapour included in the bodie of Earth which with strugling to get out shakes it and the other to be but the collision of two Clouds and in them the contestation of two repugnant qualities whose strife begets that fearefull Blow But yet if I looke not beyond Nature if I apprehend no Power beyond these that directs and formes those fearefull Iudgements I might iustly feare to be the next marke at which those Iudgements should aime to be swallowed vp or to be Thunderstrooke Let not Sophistrie or Philosophie deceiue you let them not lull you into a securitie to make you feareles of Gods anger by fathering his Iudgements vpon Chance and Nature There is no Iudgement as there is no Mercy wherein you may not discerne Digitum Dei the hand of God directing it be it Wind or Storme or Haile or Lightning or Infection all are but his ministers to fulfill his will The Pestilence is his Arrow T is called Sagitta noctu volans directed against his People either for disobedience and breach of his Lawes as Deuteron 28. 21. or for Pride For Dauids presumption to number the people God abated Seuenty Thousand of his number by the Pestilence Or for vniust Auarice for Extortion or Simony Or for Lasciuiousnes by the example of Sodom drown'd in Mari pestilentico and turn'd into a Lake Or for Gluttonie and Excesse as Numb 11. 33. Whilst the flesh was yet betweene their teeth the wrath of the Lord kindled and smote the people with an exceeding great Plague Nay it hath yet a neerer dependance vpon His will insomuch that it is called Manus Dei the hand of God so Exod. 9. 3. 15. and Ieremy the 21. 5 6. And Dauid making choise of the Pestilence rather then of any of the two other punishments there proposed vnto him by the Prophet Gad accepts it in this
of Gods mercy acted in so many shapes and by such various wayes that they require a Chronicle to giue you information rather than a short discourse Let me carry you once more backe and leaue you vpon the holy Story of the Scriptures and from thence you will soone conclude that Deliuerance is Gods Title confirm'd to Him not only by the confession of those records but by the Obedience of euery Element Which to serue his purposes haue changed and altered their properties The fire hath laid by his heat and the churlish element of water growne tame that it might be a preseruatiue to such as God was pleased to saue His three seruants walked in that Vault of flames as in an Arbour the fire hauing no more power to hurt them than the gentlest breath of Aire that nourishes not kills those that take it in When He led his people out of Egypt He was not only their Leader but their Hoast too both their Captaine and their Army He was their Vaunt He was their Reregard Whil'st they were vnder March He went before them in the Pillar of Smoake and Fire both to discouer and cleare their passage But when Aegypt had them in Chase He came behind them interposing Himselfe betwixt the Armies as a trench or stronger Bulwarke to keepe them asunder And when He brought them to the Red Sea the obedient Floud recoiled against its owne streame flowed backe against it selfe to giue them way making the waues a solid Wall whilst they recouered the other Shore Which Deliuerance referr'd to an higher For Egypt was figuratiuely the Captiuitie of Sinne and Christ our Sauiour was typed by the Paschall Lambe So that the whole storie of that deliuerance was not consummate till Christs passion whose Consummatum est concluded all the preceding types fulfilled the Law and the Prophets and put a Period to the great worke by Him vndertooke for Mankind To warrant which Digression of mine from the first Person of the Trinity to the Second it is the Opinion of some that this whole Psalme pointed at the Incarnation of the Sonne of God taking that Habitabit in vmbra c. to signifie the wombe of the blessed Virgin where the Diuinitie lay veyled and shadowed in flesh And Sadai in the Hebrew mentioned vers 1. to be one of the Names of the Messias denoting Him as the sense of the word carries it Qui solus pro humano genere satisfacere sufficit who was the only sufficient sacrifice for the sin of Mankind But my purpose is not to dispute his Title to this Psalme I only plead his right to my Text so far as the Title of Deliuerance enforces it Which was His by the full allowance of Faith and Scripture It is a Rule in Diuinitie that Opera Trinitatis ad extrà sunt Indiuisa in an externall consideration The works of the whole Trinitie which looke outward are vndistinguished and common What one Person does all doe because all are but one and the same God Our Creed attributes the Creation properly to God the Father and yet you see Gen. 1. the whole Trinitie exercised both in the Act and in the Consultation when Man was created Faciamus Let vs make man By the same latitude of speech we communicate Saluation to the whole Trinitie though the peculiar right and strict proprietie of the Idiome belong to the Second Person at whose comming Saluation arriued vpon the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Prophet His Chariot brought Deliuerance into the World Himselfe being not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sauiour but Saluation in the Abstract Who of God is made vnto vs wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption He that was a Deliuerer by an early promise so soone as the first Mans ruine made him capable of Redemption being that Seed of the woman which should bruise the Serpents head He that was the Soule of euery Sacrifice all which were but Hostages of that greatest Propitiation by his bloud The Prophet Esay gaue him Liuerie and Seizin in this Title Ecce Saluator tuus venit Behold thy Sauiour commeth And Luc. 1. the Angell which proclaimed Him puts Him in the full possession To you a Sauiour is borne A Title vnto which He was iustly fitted in euery Action of his Life declaring that He was not only the Sauiour of the Soule in forgiuing sins but of the Bodie too in curing the diseased in cleansing the Leprous in dispossessing such as were possest of Deuils In opening the doores of euery sense Eares barr'd vp with deafenes and Eyes that had neuer bin acquainted with any thing but Night and Darknes He was a Sauiour Actiuely and Passiuely a Deliuerer by way of Purchase and Redemption a Deliuerer by way of Rescue and a Deliuerer by way of Conquest too He purchased vs from the wrath of God and rescued vs from the iawes of Death and Hell in his Passion and He triumphed ouer those Enemies in the victorious Act of his Resurrection When the first Man had sold himselfe to sin in that luckles bargaine cōcluded vs his wretched posteritie passed vs away into the power of the Deuill who bought him from all Obedience He then stood forfaited to the wrath and iustice of God as hauing violated the conditions vnto which God at first bound him For so runs the Indenture Quô die comederis c. In that day thou eatest of it thou shalt die the Death Vpon which trespasse his Charter was cancelled and the priuiledge of his birth reuersed God now seizing backe into his hands the possession of that happines wherein at first he was instated The Earth was cursed out of her plenty into weeds and barrennes his wife doomed vnto the sorrowes of trauell and himselfe bound to preserue life by a perpetuitie of sweat and labour So that since his happines and whole being was now confiscate he had no possibilitie to discharge the debt but like a miserable Debtor must haue languished in his imprisonment had not the Son of God become his Surety had not he vndertaken to satisfie the offended Creditor Which He did and with no meaner Sum than the vnualued drops of his bloud tendered at six seuerall payments The first at his Circumcision which was the opening of that Exchequer which neuer shut vp till the full ransome was paid The second in the Garden where in his painfull Agony He sweat more bloud for vs than we euer wept teares for our selues The third at his Scourging when his backe was plowed vp in furrowes and his whole flesh which was now Caro discontinua indeed as Caietan calls it had not so much skin to fence it as would distinguish one wound from another the heauy chastisement of our peace now vpon him hauing made his whole body but one wound The fourth was at his sad Coronation which proclaimed Him not only virum dolorum a man of sorrowes but