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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.
The thirteenth duty that is incumbent upon those who §13have been burnt up, is to get a God for their portion. You 1have lost your earthly portion, your earthly possessions, O ⟨p. 225⟩that you would now labour with all your might, to get God 2for your portion. If the loss of your earthly portions shall be so sanctified to you, as to work you to make God your portion, then your unspeakable losses will prove inconceivable gain unto you. O Sirs, God is the most absolute need full and necessary portion: the want or the loss of earthly portions may afflict and trouble you, but the want of God for your portion will certainly damn you: it is not absolutely necessary, that you should have a portion in Gold, or Silver, or Jewels, or Goods, or Houses, or Lands, or Lordships; but it is absolutely necessary, that you should have God for your portion. Suppose that with the Apostles, you have no certain dwelling place, nor no Gold, nor Silver 3in your purses: Suppose with Lazarus you have never a rag to hang on your backs, nor never a dry crust to put in your bellies: Suppose with Job you should stripped of all your worldly comforts in a day; yet if God be your portion, you are happy, you are really happy, you are signally happy, you are greatly happy, you are unspeakably happy, you are eternally happy. However it may go with you in this world, yet you shall be sure to be glorious in that other world. To have God for thy portion O man, is the one thing necessary; for without it thou art for ever and ever undone: If God be not thy portion, thou canst never enjoy communion with God in this world: if God be not thy portion, thou canst never be saved by him in the other world. Will you consider a little what an excellent transcendent portion God is?
The thirteenth duty that is incumbent upon those who §13have been burnt up, is to get a God for their portion. You 1