London's Lamentation for Her Sins - William Crashaw (1572 - 1626)

00:00x:00 01 Title Page

00:01:08 02 To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of London, the Right Worshipful the Sheriffs and Aldermen, and the Rest of the Godly Citizens and Offiers, Who Have Either Stayed in Their Places and Duties During This Visitation: or Sent Their Large and Comfortable Benevolence for the Poor the Blessings of This and a Better Life

00:11:50 03 London's Lamentable Complaint to Her God Containing, a Prayer for the Time of Infection: Afore Confession of Sin a Meditation upon the Causes and Remedy of This Plague: a Thanksgiving for God's Mercy Even in This Cross

00:49:31 04 A Sovereign Medicine for and Against the Plague: Being an Ancient and Approved Antidote, and the Sure and Infallible Way How to Escape the Plague, or at Least the Plague of the Plague

London's Lamentation for Her Sins
William Crashaw (1572 - 1626)

London's lamentation for her sins and complaint to the Lord her God out of which may be picked a prayer for private families, for the time of this fearful infection and may serve for a help to holiness and humiliation for such as keep the fast in private: together with a sovereign receipt against the plague - Summary from Subtitle

Life
The son of Richard Crashaw of Handsworth, South Yorkshire, by his wife, Helen, daughter of John Routh of Waleswood, he was born at Handsworth, and baptised there on 26 October 1572. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, admitted a sizar there on 1 May 1591. Two years afterwards the bishop of Ely's fellowship at St John's became vacant by the death of Humphrey Hammond; and as the see was then unoccupied, the right of nomination became vested in Queen Elizabeth, who recommended Crashaw.[1][2]

After being ordained Crashaw became a preacher, first at Bridlington and then at Beverley in Yorkshire. He commenced M.A. in 1595, and