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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.
and therefore no wonder, if Austin would not be an Atheist for half an hour for the gain of a million of worlds, because he knew not but God might in that time make an end of him. I have been the longer upon this Head, because Atheist and Atheism did never so abound in this Land as it hath done these last years. And that you may the clearer see who they are that have brought that sad Judgment of Fire upon that once glorious City of London; Ah London, London! 'twas the gross Atheism and the practical Atheist that was within and without thy Walls, that has turned thee into a ruinous heap.
Mark, I readily grant, that there is the seeds, relics, stirring, and moving of Atheism in the best and holiest of the Sons of men: but then, 1. They disallow of it, and discountenance it. 2. 'Tis lamented and bewailed by them. 3. They oppose it, and conflict with it. 4. They use all holy and conscientious means and endeavours to be rid of it. 5. By degrees they get ground against it, and therefore God never did, nor never will turn Cities or Kingdom• into flames, for those seeds and remains of Atheism that are to be found in the best of Saints: 'tis that Atheism that is rampant, that reigns in the hearts and lives of sinners, as a Prince reigns upon his Throne, that brings desolating and destroying Judgments upon the most flourishing Kingdoms and ⟨p. 75⟩the most glorious Cities that are in the World. But,
Mark, I readily grant, that there is the seeds, reliques, stirring, and moving of Atheism in the best and holiest of the Sons of men: but then, 1. They disallow of it, and discountenance it. 2. 'Tis lamented and bewailed by them. 3. They oppose it, and conflict with it. 4. They use all holy and conscientious means and endeavours to be rid of it. 5. By degrees they get ground against it, and therefore God never did, nor never will turn Cities or Kingdom• into flames, for those seeds and remains of Atheism that are to be found in the best of Saints: 'tis that Atheism that is rampant, that raigns in the hearts and lives of sinners, as a Prince raigns upon his Throne, that brings desolating and destroying Judgments upon the most flourishing Kingdoms and