A91754:65
Scions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,…Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,…
Scions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.Sions praises. Opened in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and common council of London: on the day of solemn thanksgiving unto God for his long and gracious preservation of that great city, from pestilence, fire, and other dangers. By Edward Reynolds. D.D.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1657
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1. Be pleased to look back on those bloody ⟨p. 23⟩Marian days, when the streets of this City were defiled with the blood of Martyrs, when the blessed members of Christ were drawn from Cole houses and Prisons to Stakes and flames, and consider the indefatigable and crafty endeavours, which have been from time to time by that party used (and no doubt they are as unwearied now as ever, though haply they are under new shapes and disguises) to reduce us back again. And consider the purity of Evangelical Doctrine and Worship, and the great liberty you now enjoy therein (The Lord pardon, pity, and rebuke those, who either through ignorance o profaneness, do pray the wantons with such a benefit, and abuse it, to the rending and causing of breaches in the Church of Christ.)
1. Be pleased to look back on those bloody ⟨p. 23⟩Marian days, when the streets of this City were defiled with the blood of Martyrs, when the blessed members of Christ were drawn from Cole houses and Prisons to Stakes and flames, and consider the indefatigable and crafty endeavors, which have been from time to time by that party used (and no doubt they are as unwearied now as ever, though haply they are under new shapes and disguises) to reduce us back again. And consider the purity of Evangelical Doctrine and Worship, and the great liberty you now enjoy therein (The Lord pardon, pitty, and rebuke those, who either through ignorance o prophaness, do pray the wantons with such a benefit, and abuse it, to the rending and causing of breaches in the Church of Christ.)
2. Look on the sore plagues which have heretofore reigned in this place, emptying the City of all that could fly, and sending Armies of those that remained weekly to the grave. The City is probably now much more populous, many thousands of houses being since that time newly erected, and few either of the old or new without Inhabitants; yet for these many years this raging disease hath been banished from this place, when probably it might have been a double Judgment unto you, and you have that blessing which the Lord promised Jerusalem,