The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomized together with a description of the heavenly and…The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and…

The Lord make you such self-seekers: Such a one was Nehemiah, of whom it is said, that he sought not his own, but the ¹welfare of the people of God; Such another was David, who preferred Jerusalem before his chief joy: Such were Old ⟨image 5⟩²Ely, Ezra, Jeremiah, Daniel, &c. Such ought you to be.

The Lord make you such selfe-seekers: Such a one was Nehem•ah, of whom it is said, that he sought not his owne, but the ¹welfare of the people of God; Such another was David, who preferred Jerusalem before his chiefe joy: Such were Old ⟨image 5⟩²Ely, Ezra, Jeremiah, Daniel, &c. Such ought you to be.

1. 1Neh. 2. 10.
2. 2Psal. 137. 6.

It is not long since you kept a Fast, to humble your selves before the Lord, in reference to the many sad, lamentable, and unusual Fires kindled amongst us. Now it ought to be your care (as the true fruit of this Fast) not only in your personal capacities to abstain from, but as you are public Magistrates of this City, to endeavour (so far as your power will reach) to suppress all those sins for which God hath threatened this great Judgement. This is a divine, blessed, and most heavenly self-seeking. God hath threatened to destroy a Nation by fire,