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

Eighthly, Are there no burnt Citizens, whose hearts are §8filled with solicitous cares, and who are inordinately troubled, ¹grieved, dejected and overwhelmed upon the account of their late losses: and what dos this speak out, but an inordinate love of these earthly things. When Jonahs Gourd ²withered, Jonah was much enraged and dejected. 'Tis said of Adam, that he turned his face towards the Garden of Eden, and from his heart lamented his fall. Ah how many are there in this day, who turning their faces towards their late lost mercies, their lost Shops, Trades, Houses, Riches, do so bitterly and excessively lament and mourn, ³that with Rachel they refuse to be comforted: and with Jacob, they will go down into the Grave mourning. Heraclitus ⁴the Philosopher was always weeping: but such a frame of Spirit is no honour to God, nor no ornament to Religion. ⁵1. There is a holy sadness which arises from the sense of our sins, and our Saviours sufferings: this is commendable. 2. There is a natural sadness, which sometimes rises from sickness, weakness and indisposition of body: this is to be pitied and cured. 3. There is a sinful sadness, which usually ⟨p. 192⟩is very furious, and hath no ears, and is rather cured by Miracle than precept: this usually flows from the loss of such near and dear comforts, upon which men have in ordinately set their hearts, and in the enjoyment of which, they have promised themselves no small felicity. Oh that such sad souls would seriously remember, that there is nothing beyond remedy, but the tears of the damned. A man who m•y (notwithstanding all his losses and crosses) be found walking in the way to Paradise should never place himself in the condition of a little-Hell. And he that may or can hope for that great-all, ought not to be excessively sad for any losses or crosses that he meets with in this world. But,