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

3. That he should be forced to fly into his own Country with shame and contempt; his General and great Officers being destroyed, he had no heart to keep the field, having none to order the Battle, and the dread and terror of the ⟨p. 270⟩Lord and his Judgements abiding upon him and his Army, he provides for his own safety by fleeing home with his routed scattered troops.

3. That he should be forced to fly into his own Countrey with shame and contempt; his General and great Officers being destroyed, he had no heart to keep the field, having none to order the Battel, and the dread and terror of the ⟨p. 270⟩Lord and his Judgements abiding upon him and his Army, he provides for his own safety by fleeing home with his routed scattered troops.

4. That himself should be slain, and that in the Temple of his Idol, and in the very act of his Idolatry, and that by his own Sons that came out of his own bowels; as the Holy Ghost observes; 2 Chron. 32. 21. And when he was come into the house of his God, they that came forth of his own Bowels; slew him there with the sword. Certainly this was a far greater Judgement, than if he had fallen by the sword of the destroying Angel. And witness those very persons, who escaped Pestilence, but were not burnt in the very flames, as well as their houses and estates. O Sirs, though you have escaped the burning flames; yet you do not know, what other Judgements you may be reserved to; and therefore be not secure; but be wakeful and watchful, and provide for the worst. Unexpected Judgements many times seize upon persons, and slay them as the Soldier slew Archimedes, whilst •e was busy in drawing lines in the dust. Take heed of saying, surely the worst is past.