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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.
Ninthly, Surely such as have looked upon London, as the §9City of their solemnities; such can't but weep, to see the City of their Solemnities, laid desolate, Isa. 33. 20 Look upon Zion the City of our solemnities; or meetings. Zion is here called a City, because it stood in the midst of the City. The City of Jerusalem was very large, and Zion stood in the midst of it; and 'tis called a City of Solemnities, because the people flocked thither, to hear the Law, to renew their Covenant with God, to call upon his name, and to offer Sacrifices. O Sirs, was not London the City of our Solemnities? the City where we solemnly met to wait upon the Lord, in the beauty 1of Holiness? the City, where we offered prayers and praises? the City, where we worshipped the Lord in Spirit and in truth? the City, wherein God, and Christ, and the great things of eternity were revealed to us? the City, wherein ⟨p. 51⟩many thousands were converted and edified; walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comforts of the Holy Ghost? the 2City, where we had the clearest, the choicest, and the highest enjoyments of God, that ever we had in all our days? the City, wherein we have sate down, under Christs shadow with great delight; his fruit has been sweet unto our taste? the 3City, in which Christ has brought us to his banqueting house, and •is banner over us, has been love? the City, in which Christ has Staid us with flagons, and comforted us with Apples? the City, in which Christs left hand hath been under our heads, and his right hand hath embraced us? The City, wherein the Lord of Hosts. hath made unto his people a feast of fat things, a 4feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. London, the City of our Solemnities, is now laid desolate: and therefore for this, why should not we be disconsolate, and mourn in secret before the Lord? This frame of Spirit, hath been upon the people of God of old,