London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

Thirdly, What a mercy was this, to poor languishing, declining and decaying Christians, that they have had their §3lives for a prey when London was in flames. There wer• a great many in London, who were fallen from their first love, and whose Sun was set in a cloud. There were many whose Graces were languishing, whose comforts were declining, ¹whose souls were withered, and whose communion with God was greatly impaired. Many within and without the Walls of London, had a Worm knawing at the root of their Graces; they had lost their spiritual relish of God, of Christ of Ordinances, as dying men lose their relish. Dying men can relish nothing they sip, or eat, or drink: they had lost the•• spiritual strength, and they knew it not, as Sampson had lost h•s natural strength and knew it not. O what an Image of dea•• ²was upon their highest professions. Now for these men to live, for these men to have time to get their Graces repaired, their comforts revived, their spiritual strength restored, their soul• fattened, and their communion with God raised, O what a matchless, what an incomparable mercy is this! But,

Thirdly, What a mercy was this, to poor languishing, declining and decaying Christians, that they have had their §3lives for a prey when London was in flames. There wer• a great many in London, who were fallen from their first love, and whose Sun was set in a cloud. There were many whose Graces were languishing, whose comforts were declining, ¹whose souls were withered, and whose communion with God was greatly impaired. Many within and without the Walls of London, had a Worm knawing at the root of their Graces; they had lost their spiritual rellish of God, of Christ of Ordinances, as dying men lose their rellish. Dying men can rellish nothing they sip, or eat, or drink: they had lost the spiritual strength, and they knew it not, as Sampson had lost hs natural strength and knew it not. O what an Image of dea