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B01127	Salomon's pest-house, or tovver-royall. Newly re-edified and prepared to preserve Londoners with their families, and others, from the doubted deluge of the plague. Item, a laudable excercise [sic] for those that are departed, or shall depart out of the city into the country, to spend their time till they returne, a handfull of holy meditations usefull and requisite for Gods people, men and women, of all estates and degrees, in these doubtfull dayes, whether troubled in body or minde, and whether Gods visitation of the plague increase or decrease. / By the reverend, learned and godly divine I.D. preacher of Gods word. ; Whereunto is added Mr. Holland's admonition, and Mr. Phaer's prescription for bodily physicke. Also London looke-backe: a description or representation of the great and memorable mortality ann. 1625. in heroicke matchlesse lines,.	I. D.; Holland, Henry, 1583-1650?	1636 (1636)	STC 6176.5; ESTC S91591	52,813	78

that come from contagious places either the Lord of the soile or the magistrate of those places forbidding it but as for that heauenly Ierusalem and the Lord of the liuing thervnto euery one may resort the Lord and magistrate of heauen doth not interdict it Dauid cried vnto the Lord and said thou art my portion in the land of the liuing Psal 142.5 At Rome the housen of the Aediles were alwaies open for all men that they might resort thither to haue their causes heard and so is the house of the Lord for the afflicted soules In some places there are appointed as I my selfe haue seene watchmen with halbards to aske the passengers from whence they come and sometimes to keepe out those that come from infected places but in our going to this place we need not to haue such feare for as Chrysostome saith Hic non est miles assistens qui expellat here there is no Sergiant or Soldier to keepe thee out If the cities of the earth shut their gates before thee thou canst not enter As for that heauenly Ierusalem it is not lockt and although it were prayer as Augustine speaketh is a key to open heauen to bring thee to the presence of God Serm. 226. detemp the Towne and Villages in times of infection although they receiue some yet they will not harbour many and often there is no place for multitudes but so is it not with the name of Iehouah with this strong tower it is not like vnto the bulwarkes of mortall men into the which if too many enter they will hinder one another this fortresse can receiue millions and millions without any impediment Further the temple is also interdicted to the infected for they are commanded by the magistrate to keepe their housen for a time or if they come they are entreated to sit a side but the Lords holy temple aboue in heauen is not forbidden vnto the infected nor to any man it is lawfull for them to go thither and pray and that with the successe of Dauid Psal 18. In my trouble I did call vpon the Lord and cried vnto my God and he heard my voyce out of his Temple 6. A place neere vnto the Citie Sixtly some make a choyse in the plague time of a place which is neere whereunto they may easily goe without any great trouble or cost the name of the Lord is such a place compendious to cut off vnnecessarie labours yee need not to runne farre the Lord is neere as the Prophet speaketh to all them that call vpon him neither will it cost vs any thing mony or merites intercession of friends or gifts Poore men yee that want friendes or money and therefore cannot prouide your selues a place be not dismaide behold here is a place which will cost you nothing It is a place whereunto we may go at all times at dinner time and at supper as Chrysostome speaketh in the day time and at mid-night in thy health and in thy sicknesse the sicke man may ly downe vpon his bed and goe vnto it and when with King Ezekiah he cannot vse the feet of the flesh yet may he vse the feet of the spirit In a moment we can flie thither for as soone as we haue finished our prayer we are alreadie come to this place and to the Lord of this soyle our prayer and God meeting one another in heauen as Iesus Christ and the woman at the Well Ioh. 4. As for earthly places whereunto men resort either they are far off vneasie to goe vnto and that with trouble and cost or expences sometimes we are stopped we must haue Warrants and Certificates of the Parish Church-wardens that our house is not infected before we can be admitted all this trouble we need not in the time of plague in our going to the name of the Lord nothing will stop vs the bodily plague shall be no impediment for wee haue a warrant that we may passe the King of heauen his warrant in the 50 Psalme Call vpon me The warrant of the infected c. and therefore this place is better then the earthly where the fearefull sonnes of men dwell which feare the apparrel houshold-stuffe yea and thy letters I know nothing then to stop our passage but the plague of the soule as the Lord of this soyle telleth vs in the 2. Cor. 6.17 Touch none vncleane thing and I will receiue you But I heare the weake conscience obiect Obiection I am infected with the plague of the soule and therefore it is not lawfull for me to call vpon the name of the Lord it is for the righteous as Salomon speaketh but alas I am vnrighteous and how can I therefore go vnto this strong tower The answer is Answer for thy comfort O weake conscience that Salomon speaketh not of them that are righteous by their owne righteousnesse but by the righteousnes of Christ Iesus such are all the faithful in whose mortall bodies the plague of sin doth not remaine their infirmities being healed by Dauids Physician Psal 103. If yee desire a certificate thereof you haue the Gospell subscribed and sealed by God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost If yee desire a witnesse ye haue a threefold witnesse The spirit the water and the bloud 1. Ioh. 5.8 7. A place where we may haue a Physician Lastly wee make choyse of such places where if need be we may haue good Physicians for we esteeme it a great miserie to be destitute of a good Physician and of meanes to helpe vs in our neede The place of refuge whereunto Dauid fled and wee also ought to flie following his direction hath the best Physician which is both in heauen or earth God the Father King Dauids Physician who hath both health and sicknesse life and death in his power to dispose of them for our good and saluation knocke therefore boldly with the hand of prayer and repentance at the gate of his mercie and thrust in his hands both thy life and health And thus much for the qualities and properties of the place To pray for others is also requisite Further we haue to obserue that Dauid went not to this place of refuge alone but with his whole family for he prayed with the Elders of the people for the people and for the deliuerance of his whole kingdome Herein imitate King Dauid remember in thy prayer thy whole family and the state of the whole kingdome the Tribe of Iudah and the Tribe of Leui. There are foure sorts for which we must pray First for those which are Supra nos aboue vs Secondly for those which are equall vnto vs. Thirdly for those which are Sub nobis vnder vs Fourthly for those which are Contra nos against vs. In the going to the name of the Lord wee must not imitate the negligence of many who depart into the Country and care onely for themselues as for their families or at least their seruants they

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 and compassest 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 down 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 feet which we need to goe vnto this place the which if ye are desirous to know The feet to carry vs thither 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 faithfull Now how could we goe vnto him by the feete of prayer if wee 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 Ionah speaking of comming Chap. 2 ver 7. And my prayer came vnto thee in thine holy temple By the Apostle when he speaketh of going let vs therefore 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 carry vs thither doe preach vnto the sonnes of men the admirable goodnes mercy of the Lord toward them In this world we are as pilgrims Psal 119. hauing here no continuing Citie Heb. 13.14 and while we are at home in the body wee are absent from the Lord 2. Cor. 5.6 In which pilgrimage Many are the troubles of the righteous Psal 34. O the great goodnes of the Lord then that hee hath giuen vs feete to come vnto him and made himsefe 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 heat 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 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 feet by which in a moment wee 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 we may runne to this place and prouide our selues If the Lord hath cast vs downe vpon our beds and that wee cannot vse the feet of our bodies behold he hath giuen vs other feet to vse in stead of these King Ezekiah visited with the plague could not vse the feet of the flesh but with the feet of the spirit went vnto this place known vnto him by the name of Iehouah Ionah is locked vp in a prison in the belly of the Whale the Lords prison and cannot stirre himselfe and yet by the vertue of these feet out of the depth he ascendeth to the holy temple of Iehouah The hose to put on Now that these feet 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 feet must be shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace And as the feet to that Image of Daniel were part of yron Eph 6 15. part of clay which the Prophet expoundeth partly strong partly weake or broken Dan 2 42. So the feet of our prayers are according to the hosen wherewith they are couered if they put on feare and distrustfulnesse they will be shiuering and sinking downeward of clay weake and impotent if they put on faith and confidence in the mercies of God they will be feet of yron strong stable and firme keeping vs vpright and will carrie vs to the very throne of grace A dirction to know the way Further as they that depart into the Countrey if they know not the way to the place whereunto they goe must haue a guide or a direction because they should not erre So in the going to this place because there are so many false guides and directions the Lord himselfe hath giuen vs a Card of direction to lead vs thereunto the witnesse of his holy word written and sealed that can neuer deceiue vs. As the fierie pillar in the desart shewed the way vnto the Israelites So this word of the Lord is a fierie pillar vnto vs in the darke desart of this world to shew vs the way to that heauenly Canaan it is the lanthorne vnto our feete and a light to our pathes Luk. 12.35 Psal 105. and therefore according to the direction of our Sauiour Let our loynes be girded and let vs beare in our hands this shining light 4 The right or interest which the faithfull haue to this place Fourthly to go to this place it is necessarie to know what right or interest we haue in it In the places whereunto men betake their selues in the time of plague either they haue some right or interest there because they are their owne or because they haue some friends or acquaintance there that will receiue them or lastly because they haue either hired or purchased a house So likewise vnto the name of Iehouah the place where we ought to goe in the time of plague as also at all other times we haue a speciall right and interest First because it is our owne for he is our God and our Lord not by nature but by gift and donation Secondly there we haue acquaintance and our bestfriends God our father Christ our brother the holy Ghost our comforter Thirdly because we haue purchased it not we our selues by corruptible gold or by our merites but Christ for vs by his precious blood hath obtained this place of refuge for vs in our troubles Dauid 1. Chro. 21.17 in his prayer sheweth vpon what right and encouragement in the time of plague he went to this place O Lord my God I beseech thee c. it was then because the Lord was his God he had a particular feeling of the loue of God toward him and knew him to be his God for hee had had some experience of deliuerance The reason why we must haue this right is because being infected with the plague of sinne we should not be receiued In the Countrie they will not receiue those

which also shee answered iustly then be not a King any longer for seeing that he hath promised it he is also willing his promise being signed with the finger of the holy Ghost and sealed with the blood of his beloued and annoynted Neither is he like vnto him Matth. 7. who answered trouble me not my doores are shut the gate of heauen is alwayes open for vs. God reuoketh not his promise as King Salomon 1. Reg. 2.20.21.23 Aske my mother for I will not say thee nay and yet behold how this time is changed Adoniah hath spoken this word against his owne life of the Lords promise wee need not doubt but with Dauid boldly we may speake Psal 86.7 In the day of my trouble I will call vpon thee for thou wilt heare me Thirdly His goodnesse mercie and liberalitie which is so great that he giueth meat to the yong rauens which call vpon him Psal 147.9 Doubt not then but that hee will heare the supplications of men whom he hath made a little lower then the Angels to crowne them with glorie aboue other creatures Psal 8.56 Let therefore saith Augustine thy prayer ascend and Gods mercie will descend shall wee distrust his goodnesse who is rich to all that call vpon him Rom. 10.12 Or shall we suspect his bountifulnesse which powreth out plentifully his blessings vpon all flesh Rom. 8.32 And although we haue offended him yet our offences will not stop his mercies Men when they haue done any good turne to any if they bee neuer so little offended they cast men in the teeth with the benefits they haue done them and vpbraid them with the good turnes they haue shewed wherefore men are loath to make request to such for any thing If wee goe vnto the Lord Iam 1.5 we shal not meete with one that is of such a disposition and nature he as the Apostle speaketh reproacheth no man nor keepeth his anger for euer Psal 103.9 The willingnesse mercie and goodnesse of the Prince to haue vs maketh vs also willing to goe to him who more willing then he that is our Father our Sauiour then he that hath suffered for vs scoffings spittings bands stripes and death it selfe Neuer lap of the mother hath beene so open to her babes as the bowels of Gods compassions are open to the righteous Harken to this yee faint spirits be strengthened yee weake hands and feeble knees receiue this comfort that he hath deliuered he doth deliuer hee yet will and can deliuer I ende this point with the 13.14 and 15. verses of the 10. Chapter of the Epistle to the Romanes wherein behold a singular and compendious gradation As they that would come to King Salomon sitting vpon his throne were faine to runne vp sixe staires for his throne was mounted vnto by sixe staires so the perfection and consummation of man going to the throne of the true Salomon Iesus Christ ascendeth and ariseth by sixe degrees the highest and the happiest staires being inuocating and sauing prayer and deliuerance These are then the fiue reasons by which wise Christians ought to be guided I imitate King Dauid only resorting to the wings of the Lords fauour And herein we should be wise if we leuel our hearts and affections at the very right center and marke of prayer which is the name of Iehouah alone and the period or scope in whom our requests must end Fiue sorts of men erring in the going to this place But alas there are fiue sortes of men which make choice of other places reiecting the wisedome of Dauid the counsell of the spirituall Physicians and the practise to the Saints of God going a crooked a circular and endlesse way not towards the marke nor with a right foot as the Apostle speaketh Gal. 2. The first kind flie first to the helpe of mortall man and with Asa make speed to the bodily Physician to the confections of Arte or to the purer ayre not once mindfull of this place but when all helpes faile them and that the Lord sendeth his Sergiant and heauenly Pursiphant to arrest them then they returne to runne to this place What name shall we giue you O yee of little faith but the name of weake Christians Put not your trust in the sonne of man for there is no helpe in him Psal 146. There is a second sort which runne onely to the ordinarie creatures deriding the name Iehouah yea denying that there euer hath beene or is yet at this present such a place to be found whereunto the righteous is preserued such as Dauid describeth in the 10. Psalme 3.4 Which seeke not God but contemne him and thinke they shall neuer be mooued O yee meere Atheists what name deserue you but that name which the Lord himselfe giueth you Psal 14.1 the name of fooles If Cain hath beene reicted because hee offered an vnworthie sacrifice what deserue they that offer none at all The third sort runne to a place whose name is Hell seeking to Sathan and his artes gadding to the woman of Endor or to the Idoll of Ekron as Saul as Nero as Iulian Returne returne O yee wretched and bewitched sonnes of men with the name of deuillish idolaters The fourth sort seeketh to dwell vnder the protection and assurance of their merites and good workes but these alas as Bernard writeth on the 91. Psalme are ill lodged and haue a poore Tabernacle the diuell hath soone blowen that away The last sort are the superstitious Papists who in the time of plague runne to the house of the Spider to be preserued to stickes and stones mettals and papers Angels and Saints and principally to Saint Sebastian for as euery sicknesse disease hath his Apothecarie and Physician among them So the plague hath Saint Sebastian vnto whom with their families they runne to bee preserued That execrable Psalter of the Virgine Marie compiled by them maketh her to be this secret place whereunto wee ought to runne the prayer of Dauid which he made being visited with the plague Psal 38. is blasphemously abused in this maner O Lady rebuke me not in thine anger neither chastise me in thy wrath The 91. Psalme is in the like maner abused Who so dwelleth in the secret of the blessed Virgin c. But O ye blind seducers of soules it may be first a chalenge vnto you all that neither Dauid Iob or Ezechiah visited with the plague went to Cherub or Seraphin Gabriel or Raphael Abraham or Moses whom haue I in heauen but thee saith Dauid he saith not that he had a Moses or a Samuel haue all these erred Euen so will we with them Secondly yee goe to them that cannot helpe you let them arise if they can helpe you in the time of your miserie Iere. 2. In the famine of Samaria 2. Reg. 6. a woman crying to the King helpe me O King hee answered seeing the Lord doth not succour thee how should I helpe thee Concluding secondly that if the Lord withdraw his helping

how high art thou and yet the humble of heart are thine houses to dwell in The proud Pharisie Luk 18. went vnto the Lord without his furniture praying with pride and with a scornefull demonstration and therefore returned not iustified as the Publican O that we had not for the most part of vs all such Pharisaicall eye browes whether we talke with God or man that we might heare that comfortable voice which was spoken vnto Daniel Feare not Cap. 10 12 for from the first day that thou diddest humble thy selfe before thy God thy words were heard Let vs therefore vse to conclude this point this humble stile of Dauid it hath beene the stile of a King and although it seemeth inglorious yet it hath beene the stile of the glorious Saints of God it will giue vs the honour of Saints and raise vs from the dust set vs vpon the thrones and if it please the Lord to take vs away by the plague it will place vs with Angels let vs not then brethren forget it that the anger of the Lord may cease and that with ioy hereafter wee may sing with Marie in her Canticle Luk. 2. Hee hath regarded the lowlinesse of his handmaide 4 Feruencie and zeale The fourth piece of houshold-stuffe is Reuerence deuotion zeale and feruencie For the noyse of our lips if it bee as the ringing of Basons a vocall modulation without cordiall meditation it cannot procure vs audience for it is as the offering of the halt and the lame a body without a soule it is the counsell of the wise man Eccle. 5.1 Bee not rash with thy mouth nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God Our prayers must not bee a formall seruice onely but the sighes of our soules must bee sent with an earnest message to the eares of God they must not be perfunctorie and cold rather of custome then of deuotion for a prayer from fained lips will returne empty into the bosome that sent it vp When wee goe to this place let vs not goe as if our soules and tongues were strangers the one not knowing what the other doth our lips babling without and our heart not pricked with any inward compunction for else it is as the altar without fire a perfunctorie prayer is as the prayer of the Parret Iohannes Fridericus the Prince of Saxonia had a Parret who could rehearse the Latine Pater noster Cardinall Ascanius had another who rehearsed the Creed representing perhaps the faith and praying of his Master What are the carelesse deuotions of those who leaue their spirits as it were in a slumber while they are a praying but like vnto those two Parrets babbling as they must bee deuote so must they be feruent kindled by a burning zeale inflamed with feruent loue and as the Harts bray after the water brookes so must our soules after the liuing God Psal 42. For the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much c. if it be feruent Iam 5.16 If wee are desirous to know the necessity of this zeale and feruencie receiue these directions following First the example of Christ biddeth vs goe thither with this zeale Christians receiue directions for the framing of this holy exercise from Christ who offered vp prayers with strong crying and teares Heb. 5. hee that was the mighty Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda hath roared in his supplications Secondly the spirit of God biddeth vs goe thither with zeale for hee maketh requests in our names with grones not to be expressed Rom. 8. Thirdly the Maiestie of the sacred Lord of Hosts to whom we flye the royaltie of his nature sublimitie of his place dominion ouer Angels biddeth vs goe thither with zeale Fourthly the view of our mortalitie and of our sin by which we haue caused the Lords destroying Angell to vnsheath biddeth vs to goe thither with zeale Lastly the hope and expectation of successe the delicacie and tendernesse of the eares of God and the precious fauour of his countenance which must bee wisely intreated and carefully sought for biddeth vs to goe thither with zeale vnlesse we will sow and not reape plant Vines and not drinke the wine thereof The fift and last piece of houshold-stuffe 5 Patience is Christian patience a submission vnto his holy will and pleasure a vertue proper vnto the righteous Dauid carried it with him thither and wee must not leaue it behinde vs following the streames of our foolish appetites 2 Sam. 24. we must limit our prayer in God and his holy will asking absolutely his glory and our saluation but remitting the meanes vnto his wisedome and pleasure The fountaine of our heart must not powre foorth sweet and sowre together praying but with impatience let vs set him no time as the Disciples did about the kingdome of Israel but let vs come to the resolution of Dauid 2 Sam. 15. Behold here am I let him doe to me as it seemeth good in his eyes Iudi 8. Worthy is the Oration of Iudith which shee made to her people of Bethulia who would deliuer vp the Citie into the hands of the enemy vnlesse within few dayes the Lord should helpe them Who are you that haue tempted the Lord and set your selues in the place of God Let vs waite for saluation from him and call vpon him to helpe vs and he will heare our voice if it please him thus should wee exhort our selues in our prayers when impatience doth besiege our hearts It is safe for vs to cast the ankers of all our purposes and to stay our wils vpon his will The reasons to perswade vs to bring it with vs are three the first is the prescription of the spirituall Physicians of Christ Luk. 21. and in the prayer which he hath taught vs of Dauid Psal 37.7 and of the rest The second is the Lords equity in all his actions he gouerneth not by lust but by law hee draweth thee not to obedience by a violent chaine of his vnchangeable purpose but by reason and iustice esteeme not his will in the moderating of the world as immoderate hee hath a will but not as inordinate Princes who hauing the raines of dominion giuen into their hands doe many things inordinately without Law Reason Iustice Equity proclaiming with Nero that they may doe all things and that no body may controll them No no beloued his will is alwaies holy alwaies iust and equitable although it seemeth vnto thee vniust The third is the example of Christ Christians the wisedome of God it selfe in whom the Deitie dwelt bodily was content to forsake his wisedome and to be ordered and rectified by this squire of his Fathers will Father not my will but thine be fulfilled This is then the spirituall furniture which we must carry with vs if wee will goe to the name of Iehouah Prayer with these companions will returne laden with the sheaues of comfort and blisse from the plentifullest fields And by these it is manifested

that the righteous onely goe to this place the name of Iehouah is not like vnto the earthly places vnto which in the time of infection resort both good and bad The vngodly may make a shew to goe into it but yet they connot come thither for there is the spirit of prayer Zach. 12. which is giuen onely to them that bring with them this spirituall furniture As for weapons to safegard our selues wee neede none for this houshold-stuffe are spirituall weapons Ephes 6. This shall suffice for the Arke of Noah A trusty friend and seruant appointed by the Magistrate of heauen to aide the sicke in the time of Plague Now because the Ciuill Magistrate appointeth in euery Parish trustie men to aide the infected and to prouide them with necessaries Giue mee also leaue to shew vnto you beloued a trustie friend and seruant to ayde the sicke appointed by the Magistrate of heauen If yee are desirous to know who it is Prayer is his name Psal 50 Call vpon mee c. Dauid hath vsed this faithfull friend in the time of the plague he hath sent it as an Embassadour into the Court of heauen to sue for peace he sent not merites distrustfulnesse impatience or blasphemies but prayer the surest and effectuallest Embassadour happy for successe Wee are all desirous if the Lord visite vs with the rod of Dauid to haue some trustie and faithfull friend or seruant to keepe and ayde vs to dispatch our businesse to send here and there and to prouide vs with necessaries and wee make much of such that will assist vs in such a fearefull sicknesse Wee can haue no better seruant then King Dauids friend who hath many good qualities we desire in the time of plague a seruant or friend 1 Faithfull in whom wee finde these good qualities The qualities of this friend First Faithfulnesse for many haue beene robd by their keepers as experience teacheth Prayer is a messenger of especiall trust it wil trauaile with vs by day awake with vs by night it will not forsake vs by land by water in weale in woe liuing or dying it is our last friend and indissolublest companion Secondly 2 Quicke wee desire one quick of speed Prayer is able in a minute to mount aboue the Eagles of the skie into the heauen of heauens and is a chariot of fire bearing vs aloft into the presence of God to seeke his assistance hee knoweth to addresse himselfe in waies vnknowne in the stillest silence of the night till he come to the secrets and chamber of the Lord King Dauids Physician Thirdly wee seeke one who is willing and is not afraid 3 Willing for they are scarce to be found prayer is such a friend he is not afraid to be with thee neither the tediousnesse of the way or difficultie of the passage can hinder him from his purpose Fourthly 4 Learned we are desirous to haue one that can speake language which the Physician can vnderstand if need were to send him thither and who can prouide vs of necessaries such one is prayer for what language soeuer it speaketh the Physician of heauen can vnderstand it Fiftly one that is able to comfort vs in our distresse 5 A comforter such a comforter is praier it is the life of the soule if thou art perplexed with such griefe of heart as neither wine according to the aduice of Salomon nor strong drink can bring ease vnto thy spirit melting like waxe finding no comfort at all either in light or darkenesse pleasures or riches kinsfolkes or friends wishing with Iob 4. O that thou wouldest hide mee in the graue and keepe mee secret vntill thy wrath is past yet then this friend is our comfort hee will speake for vs vnto the Lord King Dauids Physician by this we may flie into the bosome of Gods mercies If any then be afflicted amongst you let him pray Iam. 5. The reason why we desire a friend with all these qualities is that he might both aide and prouide vs with all necessaries prayer is a friend who is able to dispatch all our businesse Desirest thou a Physitian in thy sicknes to cure thee send this friend praier to King Dauids Physician dwelling in heauen and he will bring him with him If thou needest physicke to heale thee and which is good for thy disease send prayer into heauen to fetch the hearbe of patience which groweth not in our owne garden If thou desirest necessaries for thy soule send him to the Lord he will fetch for thee all that thou wantest the bread of life that heauenly Manna the bloud of Christ the waters of mercy Needest thou a comforter send praier vnto the Lord and he wil bring with him the best comforter of the sicke the holy Ghost it is his name Iohn 14. he will not feare to come to thee as often the bodily Physician Lastly if we desire our friends to come and visite vs send prayer for them and they will come God the father God the sonne God the holy Ghost No friend then better then prayer There are some bad seruants of which we must take heed and as in the time of plague there are some bad seruants who robbe and bereaue the sick of that he hath so there are some wicked friends who will depriue vs of spirituall comforts if we be not ware of them First if we should vse the aide of merits and send them vp 1 Bad seruants Merites the starres in heauen would disdaine it that wee which dwell at the footstoole of God dare to presume so farre when the purest creatures in heauen are impure in his sight Ephes 6 4. Secondly if we send vp feare and distrustfulnesse 2 Feare the length of the way will tire them out they are as heauy and lumpish as gaddes of yron they will sinke to the ground before they come halfe way to the throne of saluation Thirdly if we send vp blasphemies and curses 3 Blasphemies all the creatures betwixt heauen and earth will band themselues against vs. The Sunne and Moone will raine downe bloud the fire hote burning coales and the ayre thunderbolts vpon our heads And therefore let vs not vse the ayde of these three bad seruants As prayer is a seruant to ayde the sicke so it is a trustie friend or seruant to keepe your housen and families O ye Londoners that are departed in the Citie yee vse the ayd and trust of others but they are not the best for they are mortall and corruptible exhort them therfore to vse this friend towards the Lord both for you for themselues for except the Lord build the house they labour in vaine that build it except the Lord keepe the citie the keeper waiteth in vaine saith Dauid Thus I haue shewen you that be at London beloued of God called to be Saints Salomons Pesthouse Psal 127.1 to enter in with your families I come now to you beloued that haue

workes Open thou my lips Psal 51.15 Psal 119.18 O Lord that my mouth may shew forth thy praise And open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy workes Iterum in Christo vale I. D. SALOMONS PEST-HOVSE OR TOWRE-ROYALL Collected out of the 18. Chapter of the Prouerbs verse 10. The name of the Lord is a strong towre 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 he answered him by fire from heauen THe whole Colledge of the bodily Physicians and the Prince of them that wise and learned Galen prescibe for the time of Plague that of all remedies to preuent the contagion the best is to flie shun the infected and corrupted ayre and to depart vnto a wholesome and purer ayre and that with these three rules Citò longè tardè 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 Physicians themselues I will not contradict the prescriptiō of the Physician nor disprooue the diligence of the sons of men if they vse departure lawfully therin not sinning Contra Patriam charitatem vocationem against their Country their calling Christian charity But because by the corruption of our nature which is more than the corruption of the ayre we suffer our selues as with maine sayle to be carried away from the Creatour to the creatures fixing all our senses more vpon the aerial corruptiō than vpon the inward cause of the contagion the rottennesse of our bones which we carrie within our selues are more carefull to depart into the Countrey than vnto the Lord as if by the swiftnesse of our feet we could out-runne Him who rideth vpon the wings of the Cherubims Psal 10.4 which causeth that the Lord hath a Pursiuant which he sendeth to arrest some in the pure ayre namely the Plague it selfe which hath arrested some in the Countrie as well as the Citie Anno. 1603. and 1625. as the experience of the two last Visitations verified and this present yeere haue shewen vnto vs all verifing the threatning of the Lord Deut. 28.22 This is the reason why the whole Colledge of the spirituall Physicians of our soules haue prescribed for the time of Plague a better flight and departure than that which is prescribed by Galen and the rest namely to the name of Iehouah by the feet of Prayer mentioned and storied by that wise Salomon in the words prefixed And as it is prescribed so it hath been 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 the little Zoar whereunto our first care ought to be 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 therfore 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 in 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 run vnto it and it 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 what househould stuffe they must carrie thither with them to be receiued noted in these words the righteous runneth vnto it As for the place let me obserue foure things For as in the time of Plague for our departure first it is necessarie that we know the name of the place whereunto we go secondly that we haue feet to beare carie vs thither thirdly that wee haue a direction that wee might not erre fourthly that we haue some right and 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 1 The name of the place so in this place it is called the name of Iehouah Heere I pretermit the fiue seueral significations of the name of the Lord vsed in the booke of God taking it in this place first for the Lord himself secondly for his attributes by which he 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 mercifull and gratious slow to anger and aboundant in goodnes and truth c. God then the almightie eternall immortall inuisible Lord the iudge of the world Psal 94.2 God mercifull and gratious the supreme Physician 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 wherunto Dauid and wee ought to flie from the contagion The name of a place if it be knowne famous and renowned hath often much force to perswade vs rather to goe vnto such a place than vnto such or such surely there was neuer name of place more worthy to goe vnto then the name of Iehouah O yee righteous soules that thirst or may thirst by reason of the heat 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 so 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 hee 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 himself this name by the pen of the holy Ghost calling himselfe a secret place Psal 91.1 a throne of Grace Heb. 4.16 a refuge Psal 9 9. a fortresse Psal 18.2 a strong tower and such like more Secondly this is the confession of the righteous Of Dauid the