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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
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Thirdly, Heathens 1have trembled, and mended, and reformed at divine warnings; and therefore for you to slight them, is to act below the Heathens, yea, 'tis to do worse then the Heathens, who will certainly one day rise up in Judgment against all such who have been slighters of the dreadful warnings of Heaven. Fourthly, Slighting of divine warnings, lays men 2open to such anger and wrath, as all the Angels in Heaven are not able to express, nor all the men on earth able to conceive. Fifthly, Slighting and neglecting of divine warnings, speaks out the greatest dis-ingenuity, stoutness, and stubbornness that is imaginable. The ingenuous child easily takes warning, and to an ingenuous Christian every divine warning is as the hand-writing upon the wall. Sixthly, Slighting of divine warnings, provokes God many t•mes to 3give up men to be their own Executioners, their own destroyers. Saul had many warnings, but he slighted and neglected 4them all; and at last God leaves him to fall on his own sword. Christ cast Hell-fire often into Judas his face. Thou hast a Devil; and woe to that man by whom the Son of Man shall be betrayed; it had been good for that man that he had never been born: But Judas slights all these warnings, and betrays his Lord and Master, and then goes forth and hangs himself. It was a strange conceit of the Cerinthians that honoured Judas the Traitor as some divine 5and super-humane power, and called his Treason a blessed piece of Service, and that he knowing how much the death of Christ would profit mankind, did therefore betray him to death to save the race of mankind, and to do a thing pleasing to God. Judas withstood all divine warnings 6from within and without, and you know how the Tragedy ended; he dyed a miserable death, he perished by his own hands, which were the most infamous hands in all the world: he went and hanged himself. And as Luke hath it, he fell head-long and burst asunder in the midst, and all his