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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.
The Fiery Jesuits Temper and Behaviour.
I Fain would be informed by you what ails These Foxes to wear Fire-brands in their tails. What? did you teach these Cubs the World to burn, Or to embottle London in its Urn? Are Huguenots as rank Philistines grown (With you) as dwelt in Gath or Askelon? Bold Wretches! must your Fire thus antedate The General Doom, and give the World its Fate? Must Hells Edict (to blend this Globe with Fire) Be done at your grave Nods, when you require?
I Fain would be informed by you what ails These Foxes to wear Fire-brands in their tails. What? did you teach these Cubs the World to burn, Or to embottle London in its Ʋrn? Are Hugonots as rank Philistins grown (With you) as dwelt in Gath or Askelon? Bold Wretches! must your Fire thus antedate The General Doom, and give the World its Fate? Must Hells Edict (to blend this Globe with Fire) Be done at your grave Nods, when you require?
THE TABLE.
A. Of strange Apparel. OF the Vanity of strange Apparel, Page 56, 57. The first Part of the Book. Of Atheism. Gross Atheism, practical Atheism brings desolating Judgments upon a people, pag. 67. to pag. 70. The first Part of the Book. In a strict and proper sense there was never such a Creature in the world as an Atheist, pag. 71, 72, 73, 74. The first Part of the Book. There are the seeds of Atheism in the best and holiest of the sons of men, pag. 74, 75. The first Part of the Book. B. Of the Balance of Deceit. Such as use the Balance of deceit, such run counter-cross to eight things, pag. 89. to 92. The first Part of the Book. Of the Blood of the Just. Shedding the blood of the just brings the judgment of Fire, and lays all desolate, pag. 154, 155, 156, 157. The first Part of the Book. There are nine things that speak out the preciousness of the blood