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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.
Fourthly, Consider there are singular blessings which the §4sanctifying of the Sabbath will crown us with, Ezek. 20. 12. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they may know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. The singular blessings that the right sanctifying of the Sabbath will bring upon us, are, 1. Spiritual; they that conscientiously sanctify the Sabbath, they shall see and know the work of God, the work of Grace upon their own Souls. There are many precious Christians that have a work of God, a work of Grace upon their own Souls, who would give ten thousand worlds (were there so many in their hands to give) to see that work, to know that work. Oh, but now they that sanctify the Sabbath, they shall both see and know the work of God upon their own Souls. And they shall find •he Lord carrying on the work of Grace and Holiness in their Souls; they shall find the Lord destroying their sins, and filling their hearts with joy, and with a blessed assurance of his favour and love, Isa. 56. 6, 7. Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord to serve him, and to love the Name of the Lord, to be his servants. Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold on my Covenant. ⟨p. 143⟩Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my Altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. So Isa. 58. 13, 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord. Now in the second place, the other blessings that the right sanctifying of the Sabbath will invest us with, are temporal blessings; for so they follow in the Scripture last cited. And I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, here is honour, and esteem, and safety; and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father. Now the Land of Canaan was the Inheritance