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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.
Certain Tartars at Constantinople in their insolency, set fire upon a certain Jews house; whereof arose such a terrible 1fire, as burnt not only many houses; but a great many of the Jews themselves. Here lives and estates went together. Though Out-landish hands have set our City, our houses on fire, yet God has preserved our lives in the midst of the flames: and this is a mercy more worth, than all we have lost, &c.
Certain Tartars at Constantinople in their insolency, set fire upon a certain Jews house; whereof arose such a terrible 1fire, as b•rnt not only many houses; but a great many of the Jews themselves. Here lives and estates went together. Though Out-landish hands have set our City, our houses on fire, yet God has pr•served our lives in the midst of the flames: and this is a mercy more worth, than all we have lost, &c.
- 1Knolls pag. 1266.Knolles pag. 1266.
There was a stately Palace in Jerusalem, that Solomon had built, which joined near to the Temple: this Palace 1the Jews abundantly anointed all over with Brimstone and Pitch, so that when the Romans pursued the Jews unto this Palace, they entered the Palace •fter the Jews, who went ou• again another way, and shut up the Palace, and set fire on the Gates, which they had before anointed with Brimstone and Pitch; and straight way, the side walls of the house, and the whole building, began to be on a light fire: so that the Romans had no way to escape, because the fire compassed the house on every side. The Jews also stood round about the Palace, with their drawn Swords, to cut off any that should attempt to escape the flames. Now there was two and twenty thousand of the Romans destroyed in this fire. Titus hearing the lamentable cry of the Romans, that were compassed about in flames of fire, made speed with all his Army, to come and rescue them; but the fire burnt so vehemently, that he could save none of them. Upon which, Titus and his Army wept bitterly. O Sirs, when London was in flames, if men of a Romish faith, had compassed the City round about with their drawn Swords, that none should have escaped the furious flames, how dreadful would such a day have been. Whether such a thing was intended, or designed, and by any strange