The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their…

Both of them are expressly mentioned by the Apost. Peter, 1 Pet. 1. 4. Where he calls heaven not only an immortal, ¹and undefiled, but an inheritance that never fadeth away. All Farthly Cities decay in time, and need reparation: But this is a City which never fadeth; A place which needs no reparation. And is as a Flower that is always sweet, and never withereth, as excellent after 10000000. years, as at the first moment of its creation. It is unchangeable and unalterable.

Both of them are expresly mentioned by the Apost. Peter, 1 Pet. 1. 4. Where he calls heaven not only an immortal, ¹and undefiled, but an inheritance that never fadeth away. All Farthly Cities decay in time, and need reparation: But this is a City which never fadeth; A place which needs no reparation. And is as a Flower that is alwayes sweet, and never withereth, as excellent after 10000000. years, as at the first moment of its creation. It is unchangeable and unalterable.

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And so also, it is eternal and everlasting. Earthly Cities have no foundation, and therefore are fading and perishing. They are like Cities made of wax or snow, which quickly melt away, like Nebuchadnezzar's Image, whose ⟨p. 63⟩head was of fine gold, and breasts of silver, but the feet which upheld it were composed of brittle clay, that is easily dissolved. Earthly happiness like the earth is founded upon nothing.