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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.
That God is the Author or Efficient cause of all the great Doct. Calamities and dreadful Judgments that are inflicted upon Cities and Countries, and in particular of that of fire.
Now that God is the Author or Efficient cause of all the great Calamities and dreadful Judgments that are inflicted upon Cities and Countries, will evidently appear to every mans understanding, that will but take the pains to read over the 26. Chapter of Leviticus, and the 28. Chapter of Deuteronomy, with that 14. of Ezekiel, from vers. 13. to vers. 22.
That God is the Author or Efficient cause of this dreadful Judgment of Fire that is at any time inflicted upon Cities and Countries, will sufficiently appear in these following Scriptures, Amos 3. 6. Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? This is to be understood of the evil of punishment, and not of the evil of sin. Amos 4. 11. I have overthrown some of you as God overthr•w Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the burnings, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Here (I) is emphatical and exclusive, as if he should say, I, and I alone. Amos 1. 14. But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah. (that is, in the Metropolis or chief City of the Ammonites) and it shall devour the Palaces thereof. Rabbah their head-City, was a cruel, bloody, covetous, and ambitious City, vers. 13. And therefore, rather than it should escape divine vengeance, God will kindle a fire in the wall of it, and burn it with his own hands.