37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for Dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant. When God comes to plead the cause of Zion, against Babylon; not by words, but by deeds, by blows, by terrible Judgements. When he comes to burn up the inhabitants of Babylon, and to turn them out of house and home; he first dries up her Sea, and makes her Springs dry, Haggai 1 11. And I called for a drought upon the Land, and upon the Mountains, and upon the Corn, and upon the new Wine, and upon the Oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon Men, and upon Cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. 'Tis God that brings droughts and rain, and that opens and stops (the Clouds) the bottles of Heaven at his ⟨p. 7⟩pleasure, Jer. 14. 2, 3, 4. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their Nobles have sent their little ones to the waters, they came to the pits, and found no water, they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, they covered their heads. They muffled up their heads and faces, as a token of great grief and sorrow as close mourners do with us. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the Ploughmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. There are many calamities that are brought upon us by humane means that are also avoidable by humane helps; but drought and want of water, •specially when a devouring fire is kindled in the midst of a people, is no small judgement of Heaven upon that people, to want water when the house is all in flames is a high evidence of Divine displeasure. We had no rain a long time before the fire, and the Springs were low, and the Water-works at the Bridge-foot which carried water into that part of the City that was first in flames were burnt dow• the first day of the fire. And was there not wrath from Heaven in this: Surely yes. Look as 'tis a choice mercy to have God at hand, and the creatures at hand when w• most need them: So 'tis a fore Judgement, to have God at a distance, and the creatures remote, when they should be o• most service and use unto us. Certainly Gods arming of th• Element of fire against us, and his denying at the same time water unto us, cannot but be a signal of his great indignation against us.
37. And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for Dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing without an inhabitant. When God comes to plead the cause of Zion, against Babylon; not by words, but by deeds, by blowes, by terrible Judgements. When he comes to burn up the inhabitants of Babylon, and to turn them out of house and home; he first dryes up her Sea, and makes her Springs dry, Haggai 1 11. And I called for a drought upon the Land, and upon the Mountains, and upon the Corn, and upon the new Wine, and upon the Oyl, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon Men, and upon Cattel, and upon all the labour of the hands. 'Tis God that brings droughts and rain, and that opens and stops (the Clouds) the bottles of Heaven at his ⟨p. 7⟩pleasure, Jer. 14. 2, 3, 4. Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they are black unto the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. And their Nobles have sent their little ones to the waters, they came to the pits, and found no water, they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, they covered their heads. They muffled up their heads and faces, as a token of great grief and sorrow as close mourners do with us. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the Plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads. There are many calamities that are brought upon us by humane means that are also avoidable by humane helps; but drought and want of water, •specially when a devouring fire is kindled in the midst of a people, is no small judgement of Heaven upon that people, to want water when the house is all in flames is a high evidence of Divine displeasure. We had no rain a long time before the fire, and the Springs were low, and the Water-works at the Bridge-foot which carried water into that part of the City that was first in flames were burnt dow• the first day of the fire. And was there not wrath from Heaven in this: Surely yes. Look as 'tis a choice mercy to have God at hand, and the creatures at hand when w• most need them: So 'tis a fore Judgement, to have God at a distance, and the creatures remote, when they should be o• most service and use unto us. Certainly Gods arming of th• Element of fire against us, and his denying at the same time water unto us, cannot but be a signal of his great indignation against us.
