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

The seventh Support to bear up the hearts of the people §7of God under the late fiery dispensation is this, viz. That by fiery dispensations God will bring about the ruin and destruction ¹of his and his peoples enemies. Psal. 97. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. Heb. 3. 5. Before him went the Pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. Ver. 7. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the Land of Midian did tremble. Ver. 12. Thou didst march through the Land in indignation, thou didst thresh the Heathen in anger. Ver. 13. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people; even for salvation with thine anointed, thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation even to the neck. S•lah. Jer. 50. 31, 32. Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of Hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee. And the most proud shall stumble and fall; and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his Cities; and it shall devour all round about him. There is nothing more fearful or formidable, either to man or beast, than fire: and therefore by fiery dispensations God will take vengeance on the wicked. This will be the more evident, if you please but to consider, to what the wicked are compared in Scripture.

The seventh Support to bear up the hearts of the people §7of God under the late fiery dispensation is this, viz. That by fiery dispensations God will bring about the ruine and destruction ¹of his and his peoples enemies. Psal. 97. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.