London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

All these are against me, children are not, honours are not, riches are not, habitations are not, credit is not. All these are against us; but in the close we shall find that promise made good in power upon us, Rom. 8. 28. We know that all things shall work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. O Sirs! all the power of Heaven stands engaged to ma•e good this promise to you: And if you would but live in the daily actings of faith upon this blessed promise, you would then be able to bear up bravely under all the troubles and trials, crosses and losses that you meet with in this world; and you would then experience the truth of Samsons Riddle, Out of the eater came meat, and out of the strong sweetness. What Paul said of his fiery trials, viz. I know that this shall turn to my salvation; that may you safely say of all your fiery trials, We know that they shall work for our good, we know that they shall turn to our salvation: Though ⟨p. 48⟩wicked instruments might design our destruction; yet the wise God that sits at the Helm, will turn all into our Salvation. Those severe Providences which for the present may seem very prejudicial, in the issue shall prove very beneficial. Josephs Brethren threw him into a pit, after wards they sell him, then he is falsely accused, and as unjustly cast into prison, ¹and laid in cold Iron: Yet all this issued in his good; his abasement made way for his advancement; for his thirteen years imprisonment he reigned fourscore years like a King. David you know had seven years banishment, yet it ended in a glorious Reign of forty years continuance. Job lost all that ever he had in one day, he was a man under great calamity, he was a spectacle of the highest misery, he abounded only in boils and sores, and rags; but all this issued in the trial of his grace, in the discovery of his grace, and in the improvement of his grace, and in the close God did compensate his very great losses, by giving him twice as much as ever he ²had before. Dear friends, that by all severe Providences and fiery Trials, God will turn your spark of grace into a flame, your mites into millions, and your drops into Seas, is, and shall be the hearty desire of my Soul. O Sirs! if Christ be even ravished with one of his Spouses eyes, and