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Two precious and divine antidotes against the plague of pestilence; or any other judgement incident vnto vs Giving excellent instructions and comforts vnto all that well vse them in time of neede. The first prescribing holy preservatiues against this, or any other plague: written by a Christian and charitable well-willer vnto his countrey. The second, setting downe sweete consolations for such as be visited by the plague: written by a famous, learned, and faithfull pastour, vnto some of his flocke in the time of their visitations.
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vpon vs and make vs as worthy to be beloved in and through thy Sonne Christ Iesus that Sonne of thy loue as we haue beene for our long peace and prosperitie of all the Nations of the earth admired even so be it Lord so be it This is the first and generall Remedie which a Nation must vse for the removall and preventing not onely of the Plague but of any other judgement whatsoever namely true repentance which stands in sorrow for sinne and reformation 2 Chron. 7. 13. 14. Ierem. 18. 7. 8. Isa 1. 19. 20. Iere. 14. 11. 12 of life If yee consent and obey yee shall eate the good fruits of the Land but if yee refuse and be rebellious yee shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Now if so be I cannot prevaile with the whole Land then I turne to you that feare the Lord I hope to haue audience in your eares If yee cannot prevaile for others yet make sure of your owne soules learne to hide your selues to build an Arke for the safetie of you and yours But yee will say how may that be done I answere 1. If yee would not partake with the Plagues of the times be not pertakers of their sinnes Come out of her my Revel 18. 4. people saith God be yee not partakers of her sinnes least yee also be partakers of her glagues if yee will needs sinne with them looke to be plagued with them Deut. 4. 3 4. Those that went with others after Baal peor were destroyed but those that cleaved to the Lord were kept aliue Zeph. 2. 3. Seeke yet the Lord all yee meeke of the earth which haue wrought his iudgement seeke righteousnesse seeke lowlinesse if so be yee may be hid in the day of the Lord his wrath The way to be hid in the day of the Lord his wrath is to seeke after lowlinesse to carry our selues meekly and to walke humbly the lowest shrubs are safest from stormes to seeke after righteousnesse to walke circumspectly and warily shunning the sinnes of the times even more then the Plague it selfe to keepe our selues vnspotted of the world to saue our selues from this froward generation the infection of sinne is farre more dangerous then the infection of the Plague that indangers the body onely this indangers soule and body for ever how should we shunne it therefore How had we need to abstaine from all appearance of evill not onely from the flesh but from all the garments spotted with the flesh the more wicked 1 Thes 5. 22. Iude. 23. the times grow the more holy we should grow the more iniquitie abounds the loue of many waxeth cold the more blamelesse and zealous in good duties we should striue to be like bright orient starres the deeper they goe in the darke night the brighter they shine thus Noah shined in his generation Though Aegypt be full of darknes yet let Goshen be light though Israel play the harlot yet let not Iudah sinne We are Christians we professe our Hos 4. 15. 2 Cor. 6. 14. 15. 16. 17. selues to be children of the light let not vs therefore haue any fellowship with the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse but reproue them rather let not fornication or any other vncleannesse be once named amongst vs let not vs defile our garments Revel 3. 4. 2. It is not sufficient that we partake not with the sinnes of the times but we must mourne for the sins of the times we must take a view of the abominations committed in Sion and worke our hearts to such a sorrow as may make our eyes to gush out rivers of teares because men keepe not God Psal 119. 136. his law then God will wonderfully preserue vs As he preserved iust Lot out of Sodome when it was consumed with fire 2 Pet. 2. 7. brimston from heaven because his righteous soule was vexed from day to day with the vncleane conversation of the Sodomites There was a marke set vpon all the true Mourners in Sion that when the Angell of the Lord came to smite they might escape so Ezek. 9. 4. Ieremy because he wished his head a fountaine of teares Iere. 9. 1. that he might weepe day and night for the sinnes of his people see how the Lord preserved him alone when all the rest Iere. 39. 11. 12 were carried into Captivitie these things are written for our learning 3. We must mourne for our owne sinnes and labour to forsake them It is sayd of Iosiah that because his heart melted 2 King 22. 19. 20. at the Law read both for his owne sinnes and the sinnes of his people and he humbled his soule before the Lord that therefore he should be put to his graue in peace and his eyes should not see the evill that God would bring vpon the Land So if like good Iosiah our hearts even melt within vs and we humble our soules vnfeinedly before the Lord for our sinnes God will worke wonderfully for vs and we shall find gratious experience of his goodnesse towards vs if God spared Ahab for his counterfeit humiliation and would not 1 King 21. 27. 29. bring the evill in his dayes how much more will he spare those that humble their soules before him in truth And as we must grieue for our sinnes so we must forsake our sins he that hideth his sinnes shall not prosper neither in soule nor body he lyeth open to all dangers but he that confesseth and Pro. 28. 13. forsaketh them shall find mercy God will be mercifull to his soule and preserue his body He that walketh vprightly walketh safely saith Salomon he that laboureth to the vttermost of his power to cleare himselfe from all sinne to purge his heart from all hollownesse not cherishng any one beloved sinne to be vpright in his way walking in all the Commandements of God without rebuke such a man is a safe man he is sure nothing can hurt him It availeth nothing to burne Iuniper to smell to Wormewood to take somwhat in a morning and to vse many outward meanes against the Plague so long as our soules are not severed from our sinnes it is this inward vncleannesse that is the cause of that outward the Plague-soare of sinne wherewith our soules are infected causeth the Plague vpon the body sever your sinnes then from your soules if ever yee meane to keepe the Plague from your bodies say to these menstrous cloathes Get yee hence Fourthly We must trust in God for safety and deliverance though we may vse all good and lawfull meanes yet we must not rest in the meanes but goe to God for his blessing and depend vpon him for the successe The Lord Nahum 1. 7. is good and a strong hold in the day of trouble he knowes all those that trust in him he knowes that is he approues of them after an especiall manner He is a strong hold to such in the day
TWO PRECIOVS AND DIVINE ANTIDOTES against the Plague of Pestilence or any other judgement incident vnto vs. Giving excellent Instructions and Comforts vnto all that well vse them in time of Neede The first prescribing holy Preservatiues against this or any other PLAGVE Written by a Christian and charitable well-willer vnto his Countrey The second Setting downe sweete Consolations for such as be visited by the Plague Written by a famous learned and faithfull Pastour vnto some of his flocke in the time of their visitation LONDON Printed for NATHANAEL NEVVBERY 1625. An Antidote against the Plague or any other Iudgement incident to this NATION IT is sayd of Laish that they Iudg. 18. were a secure people and dwelt carelesse poore silly soules they never dreamed of any harme till the beesome of destruction came and swept them all away It is sayd likewise of the old world that they Mat. 24. 38. eate they dranke they married and were given in marriage they gaue themselues wholly to iovialitie and mirth living so here as if they should haue lived here for ever never considering that the reioycing of the wicked is short and the ioy Iob. 20. 5. Iob. 21. 13. of hypocrites is but for a moment That they spend their dayes in mirth and iollitie and sodainly goe downe to the graue they lay in a dead sleepe drowned in a deepe securitie till a fearefull Gen. 7. and vniversall Deluge came out from the Lord and drowned them all onely waking Noah was wonderfully preserved in the Arke I would I could not say of our Nation as it was sayd of Laish wee are a secure and carelesse people I would these Scriptures were not this day fulfilled in our eares but alas it is more then manifest wee are a Nation drowned in securitie this is the fruit of our long prosperitie wee are at ease in Sion wee sit every man vnder his owne vine and vnder his fig tree therefore we sing a Requiem vnto our soules and say We shall haue peace though we walke after our owne lusts wee shall never be mooved Soule take Luk. 12. 19 20 thy rest thou hast much goods layd vp for many yeares eate drinke and take thy pleasure let thy heart cheare thee be ioviall and merry but alas poore soules they never consider that this night their soules shall be taken away from them That for all these things the Lord will bring them to iudgement they Eccles 11. 9. put farre from them the evill day But in this sleepie and drowsie age I doubt not but there be some waking Noahs who if they cannot prevaile for others yet at least build an Arke for the safety of their owne soules in this cold and frozen age doubtlesse there be some zealous Moysesses who stand in the gap between God and his people and hold Gods hand from smiting by their vncessant prayers though Aegypt be full of darkenesse yet there is some light in Goshen some that shine as lights though the whole world lye in darkenesse though the world be full of folly and the most part runne on as fooles and are punished yet questionlesse there be some prudent men that learne to foresee the evill to come and hide themselues Prov. 22. 3. God hath given to this Nation of ours many a faire warning as loath to smite till needs he must he hath sent his Ministers early and late to thunder in our eares yet except we doe repent we shall all likewise perish judgement will come he hath set our neighbours house on fire as a beacon to giue vs warning I meane the judgements that haue befallen our brethren beyond the Seas he hath sent many small judgements before as forerunners of that great one to come as little gunshots before the great murthering peece It hath beene told vs before that if we repented not God would doe such a thing in England that whosoever should heare thereof both his eares should tingle thus the Cockes crowed before the storme but we regarded it not God hath now sent a fearefull plague amongst vs as another warning more heavie then the former and if this cannot moue vs to repent we may still looke for heavier for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it I will yet punish them Levit. 26. seven times more and if that will not doe seven times more the Lord will not cease to smite so long as wee cease not to sinne he hath more scourges then one if the present Plague will not doe famine shall if famine will not doe the sword shall vtterly cut vs off from being a Nation I beseech yee my brethren consider it even with teares I beseech yee what a woefull spectacle will it be to see our streetes swim with the bloud of vs all to see our women ravished and their little infants dashed against the stones to see the cursed and abominable Masse set vp in our Churches to see all turned topsie turvie vpside downe whose heart doth not yearne and even melt within him to thinke on these things oh consider the fearefull desolation that befell Ierusalem Lamentatiō the whole Booke and the grievous calamities comne vpon our brethren beyond the Seas they were God his people as well as we oh that we could be warned by other mens harmes Quest But what haue I done sayth England that such things as these should befall mee Answ Behold thou hast requited the Lord evill for good God hath given thee the glorious light of his blessed Gospell to be Preached plentifully for threescore yeare together he dispelled the mists and clouds of Popery and superstition and caused this cleare light to shine he hath committed to thee his statutes and his covenants he hath not dealt so with every Nation he hath given thee many great and glorious deliverances the like never heard of especially those of the Gunpowder-Treason and Eighty-eight then thou didest promise better obedience he hath given thee long peace and quietnesse no noise of Warre hath beene heard in thy streetes he hath given thee plentie and prosperitie a land flowing with milke and hony even all that heart can wish he hath made thee even a Mirrour and a Wonderment to the whole world for his manifold blessings But how hast thou now requited thy God O England 1. with ignorance not onely compelled but affected Light is come into the world but men loue darkenesse rather then light 2. with contempt of the Gospell a crying bloudy sinne a sinne never heard of among the Iewes 3. with Blasphemy of all sorts swearing forswearing taking God his great and dreadfull name in vaine nothing more rife even in the mouthes of children that can but newly speake 4. with prophanation of the Sabbath spending it in sports and idle pastimes In thee is secretly cōmitted that cursed sin of Idolatry in thee is Atheisme drunkennesse rioting feasting when the Lord calls for fasting in thee are disobedient to parents contemners of authoritie despisers of