A29696:824
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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Fifthly, Consider if you do not prepare your selves before §5hand for that day of the Lord, and all the duties of that day, what difference will there be between you and the worst of Hypocrites, Formalists, Superstitious or profane persons, who rush upon holy duties, as the Horse rusheth into the Battle. Dost thou dress up thy house, thy Husband, thy self, thy children? so do the worst of persons. If you do not prepare for the duties of the day, and to meet with God in those duties, what singular thing do ye? Matth. 5. 27.
Fifthly, Consider if you do not prepare your selves befor• §5hand for that day of the Lord, and all the duties of that day, what difference will there be between you and the worst of Hypocrites, Formalists, Superstitious or prophane persons, who rush upon holy duties, as the Horse rusheth into the Battel. Dost thou dress up thy house, thy Husband, thy self, thy children? so do the worst of persons. If you do not prepare for the duti•s of the day, and to meet with God in those duties, what singular thing do ye? Matth. 5. 27.
Sixthly, Consider what blessed yearnings you have made §6on those Sabbaths, wherein you have been prepared to meet with the Lord, and to manage the duties of those days. O the joy, the peace, the comfort, the communion, the satisfaction, the enlargements, that you have then met with: and on the other hand consider, what poor yearnings you have made of it, when you have been careless and rash, and have not prepared your selves for the duties of the day, and for the enjoyment of God in those duties. Oh how flat, how cold, how dull, how dead, how straitened, have you been on those Sabbaths, wherein you have not prepared to meet with the Lord? &c.