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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.
To close up this particular, consider much of the Wisdom, Power and Justice of God shines in the variety of the motions of the wind. Eccles. 1. 6. The wind goeth toward the South, and turneth about unto the North, it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. The wind hath its various circuits appointed by God: when the wind blows Southward, Northward, Westward, or Eastward, it blows according to the Orders that are issued out from the Court of Heaven. Sometimes the wind begins to blow at one point of the Compass, and in a short time whirls about to every point of the Compass, till it comes again to the same point where it blew at the first; yet in all this they observe their circuits, and run their compass, according to the Divine appointment. As the Sun, so the winds have their courses ordered out by the wise Providence of God. Divine Wisdom much sparkles and shines in the circuits of the winds; which the Lord brings out of his treasure, and makes them serviceable, sometimes to one part of the world, and at other times to other parts of the world. 1'Tis the great God that appoints where the winds shall blow, and when the winds shall blow, and how long the ⟨p. 21⟩winds shall blow: and with what force and violence th• winds shall blow. The winds in some parts of the world, have a very regular and uniform motion in some months of the year, blowing constantly out of one quarter, and in others out of another. In some places of the world (where I have been) the motions of the wind are steady and constant, which Mariners call their Trade-wind. Now by these stated or settled winds, Divine Providence dos very greatly serve the interest of the children of men. But now in other parts of the world, the winds are as cha•geable as mens minds: The Laws that God lays •p•n th• winds in most parts of the world, are not like the Laws of the Medes and Persians, which alter not. One day God lays 2