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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.
Herod Antipas, who beheaded John Baptist, not long after 1falling into disgrace with the Roman Emperor, with his incestuous Herodias the Suggester of that murder, they were banished, and fell into such misery and penury, that they ended their wretched lives with much shame and misery.
Herod Antipas, who beheaded John Baptist, not long after 1falling into disgrace with the Roman Emperor, with his incestuous Herodias the Suggester of that murther, they were banished, and fell into such misery and penury, that they ended their wretched lives with much shame and misery.
- 1Euseb. Hist.
Herod Agrippa was a great Persecutor of the Saints; he was 1eaten up of worms in the third year of his Reign, as Josephus observes. He went to Caesarea to keep certain Plays in the Honour of Caesar; the Gown he was in (as the same Author relates) was a Gown of Silver wonderfully wrought, and the beams of the Sun reflecting upon it, made so it glister, that it dazzled the eyes of the Beholders; and when he had made an ⟨p. 162⟩end of his starched Oration in this his Bravery, his Flatterers 2extolled him as a God, crying out, 'Tis the voice of a God, and not of a man: Whereupon he was presently smitten by the Angel of the Lord, and so dyed with worms that eat up his 3