The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.

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The fort-royal of the Scriptures, or, The vade-mecum concordance presenting unto the world an hundred heads of Scripture, most of them common-placed for publique use : wherein all (especially the weaker sort of Christians) may suddenly command most of all the rarities in the book of God / by an admirer of the word.
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EFFECTS. Thereof more particular∣ly on the body.

To be smitten with a Consumption: Fea∣ver, Inflammation Ex∣treame burning, with the sword, blasting, mildew, until we perish Deut. 28.22.

To be smitten with the botch of Egypt, in∣curable Emerods, scabs itch, Deut. 28.27.

To grope at noone day, like a blind man in darknesse, Deut. 28.29.

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To be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and bitter destruction.

To have the teeth of beasts sent upon us,

And the poyson of serpents of the dust, Deut. 32.24.

To be poured out as milk and curdled as cheese, Iob. 10.10.

To have witnesse re∣newed against us,

And to have indig∣nation upon us,

To have changes of warre against us, Iob 10.7.

To be broken with breach upon breach,

To have God runne upon us like a giant, Iob 16.14.

To have all our mem∣bers as a shadow, Iob 17.17.

To have our strength hunger-bitten, Iob 18.12

To have a fire not blown consuming us, Iob 20.26.

To have evill come upon us, when we ex∣pect good, and

Darknesse when we expect light, Iob 30.26

To be spoke unto by God in his wrath, and

Vexed in his sore dis∣pleasure, Ps. 2.5.

To be broken with a rod of iron, and

Dasht in peeces like a potters vessel, Ps. 2.9.

To be made as the fat of lambs, and

Consumed away like smoak, Psal. 37.20.

To be cast down and not able to rise up, Ps. 36.12.

To have our root rot∣tennesse,

And our blossome to grow up as dust,

As fire devouring stub∣ble and chaffe, Isa. 5 14.

To be melted and tryed, Ier. 9.9.

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The breaking in pee∣ces of men and women, young men and maids,

Shepheard and flock,

Captives and rulers,

Husbandmen & oxen Jer. 22.23.

To have our young men and old lie in the street, Lam. 2.21.

To have a fire come from the midst of us to devour us, Ezek. 28.18.

His casting of our carcases upon our idols

So his soul to abhor us, Lev. 26.30.

His suffering of us to bee stoned to death, Deut. 21.21.

To have our carcases meat unto all the fouls of the air, and beasts of the field,

Having none to drive them away, Deut. 28.26.

To be left few in number of a great mul∣titude, Deut. 28.59.

To be brought into bondage, and sold for

Bondmen, and

Bondwomen, Deut. 28.68.

To go away by the breath of our mouths, Job. 14.30.

To have our light put out,

And the spark of our fire not shine, Job 18.5

To have destruction ready at our sides, and

The first borne of Death to devoure our strength, Job 13.18.

To perish for ever like our dung, Job 20.7

To flie away like a dream, and

Not to be found; and

Chased away like a vision of the night, Job 20.8.

To suck the poison of asps, and

The vipers tongue to slay us, Job 20.17.

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To have the Heaven reveal our iniquity,

The earth to rise up against us.

HEAD.

To be stript of glory,

And to have our crown taken from our head, Job. 19.9.

To have our mischief and wicked dealing re∣turne upon our owne head and pates, Psalm 7.7, 16.

To have sackcloth and ashes, with baldnes brought upon all heads and loins, Amos 8, 10.

To have head and taile, branch and root, cut off in one day, Isa. 9.14.

His continuall whirl∣wind which shal fal up∣on our heads, Jer. 30.32

To be consumed by the breath of our no∣strils Job 4.9.

FACE.

To have our faces foul with weeping,

And the shadow of death upon our eye-lids Job 16.16.

To bee filled with wrinckles, Iob 16.8.

EYES.

To have our eyes dim with sorrow, Iob 17.7

To have eyes consu∣med with grief, Ps. 6.7.

To heve our strength faile,

And the light of our eyes to go from us, Ps. 38.10.

To have our eyes fail with tears, Lam. 2.11.

EARES.

To have a dreadfull sound into our eares, Iob 14.21.

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TEETH.

To break our teeth with gravel stones,

To cover us with ashes, Lam. 3.16.

To have our flesh in our teeth,

Our teeth in our hand, Iob 13.14.

NECK.

His taking us by the neck and shaking us in peeces, Iob 16.12.

BOWELS & BELLY.

To have our bowels boyl without resting,

The dayes of our af∣fliction preventing us, Iob 30.27.

To have our belly cleave unto the earth, Ps. 44.25.

To have our bowels troubled, Lam. 1.19.

LOINES.

To have our loines filled with loathsome diseases,

And to have no sound∣nesse in our flesh, Psal. 38.7.

KNEES, LEGS.

To be smitten in the knees with a sore incu∣rable botch,

From the soale of the foot unto the crown of the head, Deut. 28.35.

BONES & FLESH.

To have our bones to cleave to our skin,

And to our flesh, Iob 19 20.

To have our bones full of the sinnes of our youth, which shall lie downe with us in the grave, Iob 20.11.

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Our bones to be burnt with heat, Iob 30.30.

Our bones to be bro∣ken, Ps. 37.15.

To have no sound∣nes in our flesh because of Gods anger,

Nor any rest in our bones, Psal 38.3.

To have fire from a∣bove sent into our bons

Prevailing against us, Lam. 1.13.

To have our bones broken, Lam. 3.4.

To have our flesh, clothed with worms,

And clods of dust, Iob 7.5.

FEET.

To have our feet put into the stocks,

All our parts narrow∣ly lookt to,

To have a print set upon the heels of our feet, consuming as a otten thing,

And as a moth-eaten garment, Iob 13.27.

To have our way fenced that we cannot passe,

And darknesse set in our wayes, Iob 19.8.

His inclosing our ways with hewen stone,

And making our paths crooked, Lam 3.9.

To be cast into a net of our own feet,

To walk upon snares, Iob 18.8.

To have a net spread for our feet,

Being turned back & desolate,

Faint all the day long, Lam. 1.13.

To have our heart tur∣ned within us, Lam. 1.20

To have our steps numbred, Iob 14.16.

To have a grinne take us by the heel, and

The Robber to pre∣vail against us, Iob 18.9.

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SKINNE.

To have our skin black upon us, Iob 30.30.

To have our flesh and skin made old, Lā. 3.4

To have our skinne broken and become loathsome, Iob 5.7.

To have our skin black as an oven,

Because of the famine Lam. 5.12.

To have sackcloth sowed on our skin,

Our horn defiled in the dust, Iob 16.15.

HEART.

His meeting us as a Bear that is robbed of her whelps,

Renting the caul of our hearts,

Devouring us as a lion Hos. 13.8.

His sending of faint∣nesse of heart upon us, in the land of our ene∣mies, Lev. 26.36.

To be smitten with hardnesse of heart, Exod. 7.13.

To roar because of disquietnesse of heart, Psal. 38.8.

To have our heart pant, Psal. 38.10.

To have our heart faint, Lam. 1.21.

To have the joy of our heart to cease,

And our dauncing turned into mourning, Ezek. 5.10.

To be smitten with blindnesse,

Making astonishment of heart, Deut. 28.

To have our hearts waxed grosse,

And our ears dull of hearing, Mat. 13.15.

His appointing over us terror, consumption, and the burning ague, causing sorrow of heart Lev. 26.18.

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To have our owne sword enter into our own heart, Psal.

REINES.

To have Gods archers compasse us about,

To cleave our reines asunder, Iob 16.33.

To cause the arrows of Gods quiver enter into our reines, Lam. 3.13.

LIVER.

To have our Liver poured on the ground because of the children,

And swounding in the streets, Lam. 2.11.

GALL.

To pour out gall on the ground, Iob 16.33.

MEAT.

To have our meat turned into the gall of asps within us, Iob 20.14.

In the filling of our bellies,

To have God cast the fury of his wrath upon us,

Raining it upon us when wee are eating Job 20.23.

Our Priests and An∣cients to perish whilest they look for food to relieve their souls, Lam. 1.18.

To have women eat their fruit, Lam. 2.20.

His making that which our soul abhors to be our pleasant meat Iob 6.7.

To have the stay of bread and water taken away, Isa. 3.1.

To sigh and seek bread, Lam. 1.11.

To have our delicate feeders desolate in the streets, and

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To have those cloth∣ed with scarlet to em∣brace dunghils, Lam. 4.5.

To eate our meat with the Perrill of our lives because of the sword, Lam. 5.6.

To have the fathers o eat the sonnes,

And the sonnes to eat the fathers in the midst of us, Ezek. 5.10.

To eat and not bee satisfied,

And to have our cast∣ing down in the midst of us, Micah 8.9.

His causing of scar∣city of bread,

His breaking of our staffe of bread,

His causing us to eat by weight,

And not be satisfied. Levit. 26.26.

SOULE and SPIRIT.

His setting of the terror of his wrath in array against us, Iob 6.4.

His making of us to be full of Confusion, Iob 10.15.

His making of us un∣able to look up, Ps. 40 12

His making terrors to come round about us daily,

Like water compas∣sing us about together, Psal 88.16.

To have the sorrows of death to compasse us about,

The paths of hell to get hold upon us,

With trouble and sorrow, Psal. 116.3.

His causing his ter∣rors as in a solemn day to be assembled round about us, Lam. 2.22.

His making us be∣lieve that he hides his face from us,

And counts us for his enemies. Iob 13.24.

His face hiding from us, Ps. 88.14.

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His affrighting of us and making of us ready to die, from our youth, whilst we suffer his de∣stracting terrors, Ps. 88.15.

His hiding his face from us, Micah 3.8.

His spewing us out of his mouth. Rev. 3.18.

His causing our souls chuse strangling & death

Rather then life, Iob 7.15.

His making our souls weary of life, Iob 10.1.

His making terrors, round about us, persue us as the winde,

Our welfare passing away as a cloud, Iob 30.15.

His causing our souls to be poured out upon us, Iob 30.15.

His sore vexing of our souls, Ps. 6.3.

His puting our soul as amongst lions,

Lying amongst them who are set a fire.

Whose teeth are spears and arrows,

And their tongue a sharp sword, Ps. 44.22.

To have our soul bow∣ed down unto the dust, Ps. 44.24.

His making our soul cleave to the dust, Ps. 119.25.

His causing us to weep incessantly, because the Comforter that should refresh our souls is far from us, Lam. 1.16.

His causing our souls in shew to be cast off, Ps. 88.14.

His removing our souls far from peace,

And making us to forget prosperity, Lam. 3.7. & 1.11.

His making us to be seized with feare and trembling,

As to melt away, Exod. 15.15.

To have a doubting life, fearing day & night.

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Having no assurance of our life, Deut. 28.66.

His causing us in the evening to wish for the morning,

And in the morning to wish for the evening Deut. 28.6, 7.

His causing of us to raise bitter curses & ac∣clamations, Iob 2.1.

His causing of our grief in sense to be hea∣vier then the sand of the sea,

And our words swal∣lowed up, Iob 6.3.

His putting of his arrows in us,

The poyson thereof drinking up our spirits, Iob 6.9.

His suffering us to cry out impatiently, Iob 7.12.

His filling us with bitternesse,

Not suffering us to ake breath, Iob 8.18.

His making us afraid of all our sorrowes, Iob 8.28.

His making us cry out to be hidden in the grave,

And kept secret untill wrath be over, Iob 13.14.

His causing us possesse moneths of vanity,

And wearisom nights Iob 7.3.

His causing us to have restlesse wearinesse all the night long, Iob 7.4.

His scaring us with dreams,

Affrighting us with visions, when we expect rest, Iob 7.13, 14.

His making us flie at the shaking of a leaf,

As fleeing away, Lev. 26.36.

His causing our di∣straction to come often

Distributing sorrows upon us in his anger, Iob 21.17.

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Our crying to God, to be not heard,

Nor regarded, Iob 30.20.

His lifting us up to the wind,

And making us ride upon it,

Dissolving our sub∣stance, Iob 30.32.

His causing us to go mourning without sun,

To be a brother to dragons,

A companion to owls, Iob 30.39.

His causing our harp to be turn'd into mour∣ning,

And our organ into the voice of them that weep, Iob 30.31.

His bringing us in∣to desolation in a mo∣ment,

Consuming us utterly with terror, Ps. 38.13.

To be weary of groa∣ning,

All night to make our bed to swim, and water our couch with tears, Ps. 6.6.

To have our life spent because of grief,

And our years spent because of sighing, Ps. 31.10.

Our being sore bro∣ken into the place of dragons,

Being covered with the shadow of death, Ps. 44.20.

To be full of heavi∣nesse without any com∣fort, Ps. 69.20.

To call upon God and not be answered,

To seek him early, and yet not finde him, Prov. 1.28.

To have our calami∣ties come suddenly,

And to be broken without remedy, Prov. 6.15.

To be filled with our own wayes, Prov. 14.14.

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To have our owne wickednesse correct us,

And our backslidings to reprove us, Jer. 2.15

To be melted & try∣ed, Ier. 9.9.

To have his wrath kindled against us,

And counted as one of his enemies, Iob 19.11.

To have our trium∣phing short,

And our joy but for a moment, Iob 20.5.

To have our candle often put out, Iob 21.17

To heap up wrath when God bindes us, Iob 36.13.

Not to stand in judg∣ment,

Nor in the congre∣gation of the righteous, Ps. 1.5.

To have our iniqui∣ties go over our heads as a heavy burden, too heavy for us, Ps. 38.4.

To have our soules farre removed from peace, Lam. 1.11.

His causing our souls in shew to be cut off, Psal. 88.14.

To be fed with worm∣wood, having gall to drink, Ier. 17. & 25.15

To be drunk, & sleep a perpetuall sleep,

Not to wake, Ier. 51.52.

To bee set in great bitternesse for want of solemn meetings, Lam. 1.4.

In nakednesse to sigh and turn backwards, Lam. 1.8.

To come down won∣derfully and have no comforter, Lam. 1.9.

To have matchless sorrow inflicted in the day of wrath, Lam. 1.12

The increasing of our mourning and lamen∣tation, Lam. 2.5.

His hedging us about that we cannot get out,

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And making of our chain heavy, Lam. 3.7.

To have our prayers shut out when we cry and shout, Lam. 3.8.

His covering him∣self with a cloud, that our prayers should not passe through, Lam. 3 44. Ezek. 8.18.

To be gathered like lead or tinne,

And melted in the day of Gods wrath, Ezek. 22.20.

Not to be purged from our filthines, un∣till God have consu∣med us,

And made his fury rest upon us, Ezek. 24.13.

His drawing of swords against the beautie of our wisdome,

To defile our bright∣nesse, Ezek. 28.7.

To have our sun go down at noon,

And our earth dark∣ned at noon day, Amos 8, 9.

To have our mour∣ning like that of an on∣ly sonne,

And a bitter day,

To cry unto the Lord and not be heard, Mic. 3.8.

To be under such ca∣lamity,

That neither silver nor gold shal profit us, Zeph. 1.9.

To be ruled over with a rod of iron,

And to bee broken like a potters vessel,

Dashed to peeces, Rev. 2.27.

To bring upon us the fruit of our thōghts Ier. 6.14.

To weep sore in the night,

Teares being in our eyes amongst all our lovers, Lam. 1.2.

To have our sighes many, Lam. 1.21.

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To have our feasts turned into mourning,

To have our songs turned into lamentati∣on, Amos 8.10.

His breaking the pow∣er of our pride, Lev. 26.19.

To have no ease in captivity,

Nor rest to the soal of our feet,

But to have a trem∣bling heart,

Failing of eyes,

And sorrow of mind Deut. 28.65.

To have our griefe heavier then the sand of the sea, Iob 6.3.

To possesse the sins of our youth, Iob 13.26

Not to depart out of darknesse, Iob 14.30.

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