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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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Fifthly, The strict Inquisition that God has made after the blood of the Just in all Ages of the World, argues the preciousness §5of their blood, Psal. 9. 12. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Did not Pharaoh, Ahab, Jezebel, Haman, Herod, Amalek, Moab, Ammon, Zenacherib, &c. find by woeful experience, that God did make a strict Inquisition after the blood of the Just. And so did those men of violence, who shed the blood of the Just in the primitive times, &c. But,
Fifthly, The strict Inquisition that God has made after the blood of the Just in all Ages of the World, argues the preciousness §5of their blood, Psal. 9. 12. When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembreth them, he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Did not Pharaoh, Ahab, Jezabel, Haman, Herod, Amalek, Moab, Ammon, Zenacherib, &c. find by woful experience, that God did make a strict Inquisition after the blood of the Just. And so did those men of violence, who shed the blood of the Just in the primitive times, &c. But,
Sixthly, The speedy and dreadful Vengeance of God upon §6such as have shed the blood of the Just, speaks out their blood to be precious in his eyes, Psal. 55. 23. But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction, bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, Psal. 94. 21-23. They gather themselves together (Heb. Run by troops as thieves do) against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood: he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off. Richard the III. and Q. Mary were cruel Princes, and shed the blood of the Just, and they had the shortest Reign of any since the Conquest.