God's terrible voice in the city

25. The twenty fifth and last sin of London, which I shall speak of, is Carnal security; another of Sodoms sins. It is said of the Sodomites, Luk. 17. 28, 29. In the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded: But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from ⟨p. 181⟩Heaven, and destroyed them all. When London had provoked God so highly by so many sins, yet how secure were they before his judgements broke forth upon them, they eat and drank, they bought and sold, &c. They sate at ease, and put far from them the evil day, as Amos 6. they were still, and at rest, little expecting such changes as have come upon them, and taking little care to prevent them: they were secure and trusted in arms of flesh, broken reeds which have always failed. And I might add here as a cause of the security of some, the presumptuous confidences of future events which belong only to God to foreknow; which some have taken upon them so absolutely to determine as if they had looked into the book of Gods decrees, or had an infallible revelation from him of what should come to pass. O the good days that some have looked for upon the presumption of what they had no ground for▪ Great expectations many had of the Fall of Antichrist and Babylon in the year 1666. and other events, limiting times, which God hath not clearly revealed, which is an entrenching upon Gods prerogative, and I believe a greater provocation than such persons are aware of. This may be one reason why London is fallen instead of Babylon, in this year of such expectation and presumption.

25. The twenty fifth and last sin of London, which I shall speak of, is Carnal security; another of Sodoms sins. It is said of the Sodomites, Luk. 17. 28, 29. In the days of Lot, they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded: But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from ⟨p. 181⟩Heaven, and destroyed them all. When London had provoked God so highly by so many sins, yet how secure were they before his judgements broke forth upon them, they eat and drank, they bought and sold, &c. They sate at ease, and put far from them the evil day, as