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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
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Fourthly, Desperate incorrigibleness and unreformedness §4under wasting and destroying Judgments, brings the desolating Judgment of Fire upon a people, Isa. 42. 24, 25. Who 1gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his Law. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle, and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. Levit. 26. 27, 28. 31, 32, 33. And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me, then will I walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And I will make your Cities waste, and bring your Sanctuaries unto desolations. And I will bring the Land into desolation, and your enemies which dwell therein, shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the Hea then, and will draw out a sword after you; and your Land shall be desolate, and your Cities waste. Isa. 1. 5. 7, 8. Why should you be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more; the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint; your Country is desolate, your Cities are burnt with fire: your Land-strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate; as over-thrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged City. Amos 4. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your Cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one City, and caused it not to rain upon another City, one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three Cities wandered unto one City to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew, when your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig-trees, and your olive-trees increased, the palmer-worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt;