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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.
13. God is a permanent portion, an indeficient portion, a never failing portion, a lasting, yea, an everlasting portion.
13. God is a perminent portion, an indeficient portion, a never failing portion, a lasting, yea, an everlasting portion.
14. And lastly, God is an incomparable portion; God is a portion more precious, than all those things which are esteemed most precious. Nothing can make that man miserable, that has God for his portion: nor nothing can make that man happy, that hath not God for his portion. O Sirs, why do you think, that God by his late fiery dispensations, has stripped you of your earthly portions, but effectually to stir you up to make him your only portion, &c. But,
14. And lastly, God is an incomparable portion; God is a portion more precious, than all those things which are esteemed most precious. Nothing can make that man miserable, that has God for his portion: nor nothing can make that man happy, that hath not God for his portion. O Sirs, why do you think, that God by his late fiery dispensations, has stript you of your earthly portions, but effectually to stir you up to make him your only portion, &c. But,
The fourteenth Duty that is incumbent upon them that §14have been burnt up, is to make God their habitation, to make 1God their dwelling-place, Psal. 90. 1. Lord thou hast been our dwelling place (or place of retreat) in all generations: or in generation, and generation as the Hebrew runs, it is an Hebraism, setting forth God to be the dwelling place of his people in all generations before the flood and after the flood. The Israel of God in all their troubles and travels in their wilderness condition, were not houseless nor harbourless: God was both their hiding place and their dwelling place. He that dwelleth in God, cannot be unhoused, because God is stronger than all. 'Tis brave for a Christian to take up in God as in his Mansion-house. It was a witty saying of that learned man Picus Mirandula, viz. That God created