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…

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,

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 onely in your personall capacities to abstaine from, but as you are publique Magistrates of this City, to indeavour (so far as your power will reach) to suppresse all those sins for which God hath threatned this great Judgement. This is a divine, blessed, and most heavenly self-seeking. God hath threatned to destroy a Nation by fire,

1. For Sabbath breaking, Jer. 17. 27. 2 For despising and misusing the godly Ministry, 2 Chron. 36. 16. 19. 3. For assuming the Office of the Ministry without a lawful call. Numb. 16. 16, 17, 18, 35. 4. For worshipping God after a false manner, Lev. 10. 1. 2. 5. For breaking the Brotherly Covenant, Amos. 1. 9, 10. 6. For pride, Idleness, fullness of bread, uncharitableness, for giving our selves over to Fornication, and going after strange flesh, which were the sins of Sodom (Ezek. 16. 49