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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
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In these seven respects they are like unto fire. Answ.
First, Fire is very dreadful and terrible to mens thoughts, §1spirits, and apprehensions; how dreadful was the fire of Sodom, and the fire of London to all that were near it, or spectators of it! 'Tis observable, that some are set out in the blessed Scriptures as Monuments of most terrible and dreadful Vengeance, whom the Kings of Babylon roasted in the fire; 1of them, 'tis said, shall be taken up a curse; when any imprecated sore vengeance from the Lord upon any one, 'tis said, The Lord make thee like Ahab and Zedekiah, whom the Kings of Babylon roasted in the fire. 'Tis very dreadful and terrible for a man to have the least member of his body frying in the fire; but how terrible and dreadful must it be for a mans whole body to be roasted in the fire! so are the Judgments of the Lord very terrible and dreadful to the children of men. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I 2am afraid of thy Judgments. Hab. 3. 16. When I heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my self, that I might rest in the day of trouble. But,
First, Fire is very dreadful and terrible to mens thoughts, §1spirits, and apprehensions; how dreadful was the fire of Sodom, and the fire of London to all that were near it, or spectators of it! 'Tis observable, that some are set out in the blessed Scriptures as Monuments of most terrible and dreadful Vengeance, whom the Kings of Babylon roasted in the fire; 1of them, 'tis said, shall be taken up a curse; when any imprecated sore vengeance from the Lord upon any one, 'tis said, The Lord make thee like Ahab and Zedekiah, whom the Kings of Babylon roasted in the fire. 'Tis very dreadful and terrible for a man to have the least member of his body frying in the fire; but how terrible and dreadful must it be for a mans whole body to be roasted in the fire! so are the Judgments of the Lord very terrible and dreadful to the children of men. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I