A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast,…A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast,…

and, O infinitely fair and glorious Lord who made Sun and Moon: O pleasant Roses and Lilies: but, O pleasanter Lord the Creator of Roses and Lilies: O mighty and powerful Kings and Emperors, but most mighty and matchless King of Kings: O foolish and unwise men: O unsteadfast and changeable Angels: O Lord there is no searching out of thy understanding: O unchangeable and unmoveable mover of all things: O pieces of Breathing, Laughing, and then dying Clay: O creature of yesterday, of the last by-past hour, for the world is not of one weeks standing to him; seeing a thousand years are to him as one day. But, O Lord, The ancient of days, Daniel 7. 13. O Father of eternity, Isaiah. 9. 6. O King of ages, 1. Tim. 1. 17. And King of time: O weak men: O mightlesse and infirm Heavens which shall wax old as a garment: O eternal Lord: O what an Arm of omnipotency is in him, who shall with a shake of his right Arm move the Heavens and loose all the fixed Stars, and cause them to fall out of the Heaven, as Figs fall off a Fig-Tree shaken with a mighty Wind, Revel. 6. 13. O all you created Gardens and Orchards and Paradises, be ashamed, blush and hide your selves beside the Tree of life, which beareth twelve manner of fruit every month: Every Apple growing on this Lord who is the Tree of life, is life eternal: O Gold: O Silver: O Rubies: O precious Stones, much desired by Adams sons! What are you to him whose City is fairer, Revel. 21. 18. And the building of the Wall was of Jasper, and the City was pure gold like unto clear glass. He saith not ⟨p. 46⟩there was abundance of gold in the City, and multitudes of precious stones, but the City was all gold, and precious stones; a City like Rome, Venetia, or Constantinople; in which, Timber, Walls, Stones, Streets, & all the buildings were nothing but precious stones and gold, were admirable; O all fair Rivers and Seas, what are you but pools of dead water, being compared with a pure River of water of life, proceeding out of the Throne of God, and of the Lamb?