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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.
Eighthly and lastly, Such act counter-cross to their own everlasting happiness and blessedness, 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9. Nay, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren: Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven? Unrighteous persons may hear much of Heaven▪ and talk much of Heaven, and set their faces towards Heaven▪ but they shall never inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. God himself has locked fast the gate of blessedness against the unrighteous; and therefore all the world shall never be able to open it. Heaven would be no Heaven, but a Hell, if the unrighteous should inhabit there. To sum up all; If such persons run counter-cross to Gods commands, if their persons and practices are an abomination to the Lord, if they act counter-cross to Gods delight and to his Nature; yea, to the very Light and Law of Nature, to the best Examples, and to their own happiness and blessedness, is it any wonder then to see divine Justice set such mens houses on fire about their ears, and to see the flames consume such Estates as were got either by fraud or force, by craft or cruelty, &c.
Eighthly and lastly, Such act counter-cross to their own everlasting happiness and blessedness, 1 Cor. 6. 8, 9. Nay, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren: Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven? Unrighteous persons may hear much of Heaven▪ and talk much of Heaven, and set their faces towards Heaven▪ but they shall never inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. God himself has lockt fast the gate of blessedness against the unrighteous; and therefore all the world shall never be able to open it. Heaven would be no Heaven, but a Hell, if the unrighteous should inhabit there. To sum up all; If such persons run counter-cross to Gods commands, if their persons and practices are an abomination to the Lord, if they act counter-cross to Gods delight and to his Nature; yea, to the very Light and Law of Nature, to the best Examples, and to their own happiness and blessedness, is it any wonder then to see divine Justice set such mens houses on fire about their ears, and to see the flames consume such Estates as were got either by fraud or force, by craft or cruelty, &c.