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

Secondly, Are there none of the burnt Citizens, whose §2love, and hearts, and affections, are running more out after the world, than they are after God, and Christ, and the ¹great things of eternity. Are there none of the burnt Citizens, that are peremptorily resolved to gain the world what ever it costs them. The Gnostics were a sort of Professors, that made no use of their Religion, but to their secular advantages, and therefore when the world and their Religion stood in competition, they made no scruple, no bones of renouncing their profession, to enjoy the world. Oh the deadness, the barrenness, the listlessness, the heartlessness to any thing that is divine and heavenly, that dos always attend such Christians who are resolved to be rich, or great, or some body in the world, what ever comes on't! O the time, the thoughts, the strength, the spirits that these men spend upon the world, whilst their souls lye a bleeding, and eternity is posting on upon them. Men that are highly and fully resolved to be rich by hook or by crook, will certainly forget God, undervalue Christ, grieve the Spirit, despise Sabbaths, slight Ordinances, and neglect such gracious opportunities as might make them happy for ever. Rich Felix had no leisure to hear poor Paul, though the hearing of a Sermon might have saved ²hit soul. But,

Secondly, Are there none of the burnt Citizens, whose §2love, and hearts, and affections, are running more out after the world, than they are after God, and Christ, and the ¹great things of eternity. Are there none of the burnt Citizens, that are peremptorily resolved to gain the world what ever it costs them. The Gnosticks were a sort of Professors, that made no use of their Religion, but to their secular advantages, and therefore when the world and their Religion stood in competition, they made no scruple, no bones of renouncing their profession, to enjoy the world. Oh the deadness, the barrenness, the listlesness, the heartlesness to any thing that is divine and heavenly, that dos alwayes attend such Christians who are resolved to be rich, or great, or some body in the world, what ever comes on't! O the time, the thoughts, the strength, the spirits that these men spend upon the world, whilst their souls lye a bleeding, and eternity is posting on upon them. Men that are highly and fully resolved to be rich by hook or by crook, will certainly forget God, undervalue Christ, grieve the Spirit, despise Sbbaths, slght Ordinances, and neglct such gracious opportunities as might make them happy for ever. Rich Felix had no leisure to hear poor Paul, though the hearing of a Sermon might have saved