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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.
Herod was affrighted when he thought that John Baptist was risen again. The Philistines 1were afraid when they saw Davids Sword. The Israelites were startled when they saw Aaron's Rod: And Judah was ashamed when he saw Thamar's signet and staff: and Belshazzar 2was amazed when he saw the hand-writing upon the Wall. The Carthaginians were troubled when they saw Scipio's Sepulchre: and the Saxons were terrified when they 3saw Cadwallon's Image. Oh how terrified, amazed, and confounded will wicked men be when they shall see that Christ whom they have rejected, betrayed, crucified, scorned, opposed, and persecuted, come in flames of fire to pass an eternal Doom upon them! I have read a story of two Soldiers, 4that coming to the Valley of Jehoshaphat in Judea, and one saying to the other, Here in this place shall be the general Judgment, wherefore I will now take up my place where I will then fit; and so lifting up a stone, he sate down upon it, as taking possession before hand: but being sate, and •ooking up to Heaven, such a quaking and trembling fell upon him, that falling to the earth, he remembered the day of Judgment with horror and amazement ever after. The case of this Soldier will be the case of every wicked man, when Christ shall appear in flames of fire to pass an eternal Sentence of Condemnation upon all the Goats that shall be found on the left hand. It is strange in this so serious a business 5of the day of Judgment, and of Christs appearing in flaming fire, which so nearly concerns the sons of men, how mens wits will busy themselves in many nice inquiries (ye may meet with many such questions in the School-men) as, 1. How long is it to the day of Judgment? 2. In what place of the world shall the Judgment-day be held? 3. What kind of fire shall then be burning? 4. Whether Christ shall come with a Cross carried before him? As if Malefactors in the Gaol should fall a reasoning and debating what weather it would be at the day of Assizes? or of the Judges habit and retinue, and never bethink themselves how