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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	death_n	lord_n	sinner_n	2,648	5	7.4070	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

that giveth to the Poor lendeth unto the Lord the Charitable person shall be blessed and happy are those persons that shall fully execute their charge as he doth But they sit in the Countrey secure and thank God they are there Indeed if they had stayed here pitying my distress aiding me in weaknesse by disbursing their money and exercising their places and afterward when God had ceased his hand and they given him condign thanks for his mercy they then solacing themselves in the pleasant shades might thank God for his preservation and their recreation with a safe conscience But to thank God for his Connivency in their natural courses except for his mercy that therein they be not consumed is false fire and savors more of the Kitchin then the Conscience Let them thank their Coach-horses for I have so fed their Masters for the most part that I am sure they could never have gotten half so far without them But the higher my childrens groans rise the more I look about me and the more help I still miss Where be my Chyrurgions now that can mortifie and revive a wound when they list and rub over an old sore and pick many a pound out of the paring of a mans toe that can scarrifie a green wound and canterize an old one Where is the aid I should have of these skilful men These are shavers in their kinde but at this time they had rather carve at a Capon or Anatomize a Rabbet then Lance a sore and do their duty out of a good conscience to their sick Mother If a man that is hanged fall to their share who but they to cut and carve but to what purpose think you As the Priest did of old Pectoribus inhians spirantia consulit exta gape upon his guts and then make good chear for their own These have the termes of Art explained the secrets of Nature opened but to what purpose if it be done to admiration rather then operation and to shew the work of Nature and yet not to help Nature For now I stand in need I am posted from the Physician to the Chyrurgion by the Chyrurgion left to the Barber where if I will wash and be gon and so forth I may he can do no more But I did suppose that my Physicians would not have stirred Men that have Antidotes at Command Electuaries Pomanders and what not whole Apothecaries shops full of Conceits and Receipts to keep all the Cinque-ports of mans body inviolable Or if a man be sick they can or who can under God resta●re nature and restore health They have many Powders and Antidotes for other men or for their mony but none to strengthen their own heart so much as to stay in a City where the Plague is To these men belongs that saying Luke 4.23 Medice cura teipsum And this question which was most noisom Jobs disease or the Plague and this demand which conduceth most to salvation the opinion of a Naturian the Plague is infectious or the prescription of Divinity he that hath an office let him wait on his office If you think the latter hoc age vive our blessed Saviour shall approve you When I was sick you visited me Why are we bidden to honor them Because saith the Sonne of Syrach They be ordained for thy health Are they so the more uncharitable and unconscionable they to leave me in this distresse But since I have set them on Horseback they are rid away My Saviour said that the sick needs the Physician not the healthful Yea but they say the Physician now stands in no need of the sick for he hath filled his purse and is gone Oh sweet Samaritane if thou haddest done so to them or me when thou foundest me lying in the high way to Hell and Death what had become of us Well had I but for all this the Priest to stand by me in this Leprosie I could have borne it but as a wounded spirit none can beare so neither can I suffer the losse of my spiritual salve I blame not you that have two cares and two cures for you are gone every Summer to discharge your office to your Countrey sheep and when that is done I know you will returne but you have no charge to pay your charges but my purse And especially you that leave your Pastoral charge in the Countrey taking up your Litter Lecture I should say and yet Litter as you use it making of London a Station till your own ends be atchieved or till some crosse befal me and then you are gone Nay because you would not be said to forsake my people you have sent my people away before with your great perswasions to fly You love not two livings till you have them but a Living and a Lecture is an easie taske because they are not two cures of Soules and it is true for one is a wounding of Soules for want of cure But this may be defended you think for there is much difference between the Temple and the gold of the Temple in swearing so it may be there is in Preaching He that hath the charge of two Temples that is somthing but he that is called to one and takes the gold of another or two with neglect of his own that is nothing for my money may be taken and your sheep left upon the Downes in the Countrey with any Hireling that will do it cheapest And though my Citie-children lye sick and so the rest wants food it matters not you have other sheep then let the Parson look to these say you let the Physitian saith he let the Chyrurgion saith he let the Curate saith he and so with Job I am brought to the Ash-heape But if my children would be ruled by me they shall choose such as will stand to their Teaching and them also in life and death sickness and in health doing their dutie out of a good Conscience But let me not condemne the just with the unjust There are some of this reverent profession who are worthy of double honour who have abode with me in temptations the Lord shew mercy to them and to those worthy Physitians who have not been ashamed of my bonds nor childishly affrighted at my infirmitie And those Chyrurgions who have addicted themselves to my health the Lord remember them when they are in trouble with all the rest who have with me humbled themselves under Gods hand and administred sweet comfort when it was bitternesse with me My respectful eye shall ever be upon them and their names as occasion shall serve exalted to my power and that beyond ordinarie discourse Especially those Aarons who have stood betwixt the living and the dead In mean time accept these ejaculations to God for you in requital The Lord hear you in the day of trouble the name of the God of Jacob defend you strengthen you when you lye sick upon your bed and deliver you not unto the will of your enemies But would

heart And then thou shalt smell it and others too and God be satisfied and thy house well ayred and then thou mayst returne with safety and comfort And if God doe touch thee with the Plague thou shalt have the Pledge of his love if with the Pest and not mortally yet he hath the Test and reproof of thee and thou the proofe and tryal of him If he give thee the blow of death and the word of life also he doth thee no hurt When thou commest come with this consideration for it is mine and I have found it effectual Neither would I be rid of his word of life revealed in the preaching of the Gospel in my Temples to be eased of his hand of sicknesse on my houses Come therefore to your old habitations not to your old sinnes and as God hath swept my house to desire him to garnish it with vertue and furnish it with graces Least worse things happen to me and you And glorie not in your inventions or worldly policie or care but in Gods power and mercy that we may safelie rejoice together and magnifie his great Name in his holy Temple And thinke not they on whom the Tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners then the rest of the people but unless you repent you will all perish Neither do you my children which are here resident boast against your weaker brethren be not high minded but fear Let not the custome of Gods judgment harden thee but relate unto thy wandring brethren Gods wonders in this judgement and mercies in this sicknesse to his glorie and thy comfort and their encouragement And if there be anie evil lurk in thy heart which the broome of Gods wrath hath not swept out repent speedily least thou brag before the Victory and so God cut thee off suddenlie That so doing you may live in love and peace together to your lives end For if this Canker-worme doe no good he hath a Palmer-worme readie to bring famine if that prevaile not he hath a Catter-piller that unsensiblie shall devoure your Common-wealth and the brother shall betray the brother for want of love or for love of gaine If that serve not to reclaime you he hath Locusts of Hereticks and enemies to extirpe us and pill us bare of everie good thing and so what one leaves the other shall devoure And therefore prevent this Morphew that begins to spread over my bodie by timelie repentance by a seasonable and humble acception of this kind correction which God turne unto good and seal unto your soules that the remembrance hereof may be a scourge sufficient to you upon every falling into sin That your hearts may smite you and you return before God turn upon you in his just conceived wrath Fall not to complaining but to compunction look not at the deadnesse of trading but the deadnesse of faith and God shall work all for the best This I wish may be done when you meet and before you meet For as David drank not the water of Bethlem which was bought with blood but sacrificed it so neither ought you to bestow your deliverance on your ends but on Gods honour which hath cost the life of so many thousand In the mean time the Lord keep you all in soule and body until our meeting and after even to the coming of our Lord Jesus LORD many ask thee much t' whom much if had Would do much hurt few things would make me glad Few ask thee few things one would me compleat Give me that one thing I le no more treat This One I need one fills makes me run o're Give me this One thing CHRIST and I have store This One I crave will crave twice thrice again This One thing granted grateful I le remain That I once brought to Christ his Saints may bring This One Grace given me hence a thousand spring For this a thousand thanks and vows I le pay To thee ten thousand Praises sing for aye An exact Account of those that were buried of all Diseases from the 17. of March 1591. to the 22. of Decemb 1592. As also them that dyed in the Years 1603 1625 1630 1636 1637 1638 1646 1647 1648. with this present Year 1665. From March the 17 1591. to Decemb. 22. 1592. were Buried of all Diseases 25886 whereof of the Plague 11503. 1603. Total of Burials 38250 whereof of the Plague 30585. 1625. Total of Burials 54082 whereof of the Plague 35428. 1630. Total of Burials 10554 whereof of the Plague 1317. 1636. Total of Burials 27415 whereof of the Plague 12102. 1637. Total of Burials 14270 whereof of the Plague 3603. 1638. Total of Burials 16621 whereof of the Plague 508. 1646. Buried of the Plague 2436. 1647. Total of Burials 16452 whereof of the Plague 5285. 1648. Total of Burials 11509 whereof of the Plague ●…93 1665.   Tot. Pl. April 25. 398 2 May 2 388 0 May 9 347 9 May 16 353 3 May 23 385 14 May 30 399 17 June 6 405 43 June 13 558 112 June 20 611 168 June 27 684 267 July 4 1006 470 July 25 2785 1843. July 11 1008 725 July 18 1761 1089 The Total of all those that Died in the Years aforementioned of the plague to this present July the 25. 1665. 108022. DRaw near fond man and dress thee by this Glass Mark how thy bravery and big looks must pass Into Corruption Rottenness and Dust The fraile Supporters that betray'd thy Trust O weigh in time thy last and loathsome state To purchase Heav'n for tears is no hard rate Our Glory Greatness Wisdom all we have If misemploy'd but adde Hell to the Grave Only a fair redemption of Evil times Finds Life in Death and buries all our Crimes Certain easie excellent and cheap Receipts against the Plague 1 TAke the root of Zodoars that is perfect and good a few Raisins of the Sun and a small quantitie of Liquorish Champ it with your teeth and swallow it down Take this every morning it is an excellent Preservative 2. Lay a piece of Gold or some Leaves of pure Gold asteep in the juice of Lemmonds 12 houres or more then take it out and give the Patient the same juice with a little good wine and the Powder or Decoction of Angelica-roots 3. Take Ivie-berries that were ripe and are well dried make them into a fine Powder and take half a dram of it in two or three ounces of Plantain-water Sweat well To know whether the Plague be curable or not Take Galbanum make it soft and spread it upon a linnen cloth and apply it to the sore if the disease be curable it will stick that you can scarce pluck it but if not curable it will not stick FINIS The second kinde of infirmity or malady Numb 19.45 1 Cor. 10.11 Mr. Fenton in his spiritual Pers Mr Holland in his sp Pr Object Answ Object Answ Object Answ 1 Iohn 1.4 Psal 91 3. Psal 91.14 15 16. Povertie Psalm 9.18 Isa 14.4 30 ●●●olate ●●…sery 2 Sam. 20 18. Mat. 23.16 Unkindness P●al 91.5 The Lord Mayor Uncharitablenesse Distrustfulness I speak of those who by their place and calling should not have stirred but sto● to their charge † Mr. Balmford in his Dial. of the P●st p. 69. * Dr. Hering Epist before his defence printed 1624. 2 Sam. 28.3 2 Sam. 21.17 The Countreys ignorance Hard-heartednesse They fell nn the other extremity Comfort in God Obed. 5.10 Counsel to them Exod. 30.34 2 Sam. 23.17