A29696:174
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.
First, Robs God of his glory, it denies him all service and §1obedience. Intemperate persons are neither fit for praying to God, nor praising of God, nor receiving from God. Intemperance turns the Temple of the holy Ghost into a Sepulchre, a Kitchen, a Hog sty; and what glory then can God have from an intemperate person? But,1
First, Robs God of his glory, it denies him all service and §1obedience. Intemperate persons are neither fit for praying to God, nor praising of God, nor receiving from God. Intemperance turns the Temple of the holy Ghost into a Sepulchre, a Kitchin, a Hog stye; and what glory then can God have from an intemperate person? But,1
Secondly, It robs both God and man of much precious §2time; time is a precious Jewel, more worth then all the world. One called his friends Thieves, because they stole 1time from him: and certainly there are no worse thieves then Intemperance; for that robs men of their hearing-times, and their praying-times, and their reading-times. There is so much precious time spent in the Tavern and in the Tippling-house, that the intemperate person cannot be at leisure to spend any time in his Family or in his Closet, &c to save his own or others Souls: but there will come a time, either in this or the other world, wherein all intemperate persons will wish that they had spent that precious time in serving of God, and in saving their own and others Souls, which they have spent in Luxury and excess, carousing and drinking; but all too late, all too late. Time is not only the fruit of Gods indulgence, but also the fruit of Christs purchase. That Doom passed upon Adam, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt dye the death (or dying, thou shalt dye) had been put in execution immediately, had not Christ interposed immediately between mans sin and Gods wrath. What can there be of more weight and moment then Eternity? It is the Heaven of Heaven, and the very Hell of Hell, without which neither would Heaven be so desirable, nor Hell so formidable. Now this depends upon time. Time is the Prologue to Eternity; the great weight of Eternity