1. Concerning the Judgments themselves. Here I might speak of the judgment executed, August 24th 1662. when so many Ministers were put out of their places; and the judgment executed March 24th 1665. when so many Ministers were banished 5. miles from Corporations, the former by way of introduction to the Plague which sometime after did spread in the Land, but chiefly raged in the City; the later by way of introduction to the Fire, which quickly after did burn down London the greatest Corporation in England. These judgments having been so lately, ⟨p. 25⟩and general in the Land; and I presume so generally known, with all their circumstances; that it would be needless to give here a Narration of them. But this I must say, I could wish they were as generally believed to be judgments; and accordingly laid to heart: for I fear that the great insensibility, which people have been under of these judgments; because they have not reached the Flesh; and their sottish inconsideration of Gods dreadful displeasure herein, hath provoked the Lord to send such judgments as have come nearer to sense: that they might perceive God was angry indeed before, and that his greater displeasure in the former might be known by his more sensible displeasure in the latter.
1. Concerning the Iudgments themselves. Here I might speak of the judgment executed, August 24th 1662. when so many Ministers were put out of their places; and the judgment executed March 24th 1665. when so many Ministers were banished 5. miles from Corporations, the former by way of introduction to the Plague which sometime after did spread in the Land, but chiefly raged in the City; the later by way of introduction to the Fire, which quickly after did burn down London the greatest Corporation in England. These judgments having been so lately, ⟨p. 25⟩and general in the Land; and I presume so generally known, with all their circumstances; that it would be needless to give here a Narration of them. But this I must say, I could wish they were as generally believed to be judgments; and accordingly laid to heart: for I fear that the great insensibility, which people have been under of these judgments; because they have not reached the Flesh; and their sottish inconsideration of Gods dreadfull displeasure herein, hath provoked the Lord to send such judgments as have come nearer to sense: that they might perceive God was angry indeed before, and that his greater displeasure in the former might be known by his more sensible displeasure in the latter.
