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London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…
London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames / by Thomas Brooks.
London: printed for John Hancock and Nathaniel Ponder, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
how will he be taken with abundance of grace? how will he be ravished with the flourishing estate of your Souls in grace? Well, remember this, the more under all your fiery trials grace is increased, the more God is honoured, Religion adorned, the mouths of the wicked stopped, the hands and hearts of weak Saints strengthened and encouraged, the smarting Rod sweetened, and threatened Judgments prevented. O that those two Prophesies might be made good in power upon all the burnt Citizens of London! That 32. Isa. 15. Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field. And that 35. Isa. 1, 2. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them: and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency ⟨p. 49⟩of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. Thrice happy will the 1burnt Citizens of London be, if under all their crosses and Josses they grow into a more deep acquaintance with God, the world, and their own hearts; with God and his holiness, with the world and its vanity, mutability, impotency, and uncertainty; and with their own hearts, and the deceitfulness, vileness, baseness, and wretchedness of them. If under fiery Dispensations we grow more holy then ever, and more humble then ever, and more heavenly then ever, and more meek and lowly then ever, and more tender and compassionate then ever, and more faithful and fruitful then ever, and more patient and contented then ever, then we may be confident that the grand design of God in bringing all that evil that he has brought upon us, was his glory and our own internal & eternal good, and accordingly we may rejoice in the Lord, though we have nothing else to rejoice in, Hab. 3. 17, 18. But,
how will he be taken with abundance of grace? how will he be ravished with the flourishing estate of your Souls in grace? Well, remember this, the more under all your fiery tryals grace is increased, the more God is honoured, Religion adorned, the mouths of the wicked stopped, the hands and hearts of weak Saints strengthned and encouraged, the smarting Rod sweetned, and threatned Judgments prevented. O that those two Prophesies might be made good in power upon all the burnt Citizens of London! That 32.