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A39838	Mercy in the midst of judgment with a glimpse of, or a glance on, London's glorious resurrection like a Phoenix out of it's ashes delivered in a sermon preach'd at St. Dunstans in the West, Sept. 2, 1669 being the day of publick fasting and humilation in consideration of the late dreadful fire, by Chr. Flower.	Flower, Christopher, 1621 or 2-1699.	1669 (1669)	Wing F1383; ESTC R28644	18,802	34

the Earth opened and did cleave asunder the most rocky part of it Nay these very scars that your eyes see in my body testifie no less After this being risen from the dead I ascended up into Heaven from this very Mount of Olives in the publick view of my Apostles and many other Disciples to shew that I came down from Heaven for your Salvation and my Embassy being done was to return to my Father The Angels at my Ascension were heard to say that I should so come in like manner as you saw me go into Heaven and I my self spake of it to Caiphas the chief Priests and the Jews using this very Language Ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven why then did ye not credit so great and so good Testimony Behold now my condition is chang'd with yours ye sate once as Judges and I was the Prisoner at the Bar now ye are the Malefactors and I am the Judge see my hands and my feet that it is I my self see the very holes that ye dig'd with your instruments of cruelty in this Body of mine These like so many mouths cry out against you these accuse and condemn you go ye unworthy Wretches ye Christ-Killers get ye packing into unquenchable fire and ye ô Infidels Turks and profligate Christians who know these things or might have known them but ye have neglected but ye have despised and contemned whatsoever I did and suffer'd ye accounted the Blood of the Covenant an unholy thing ye chose rather to follow the dictates of your own Lusts then of my Law ye preferr'd Riches and sensual Pleasures and momentary Preferments before Eternal Salvation promis'd by me ye made a mock of me when I threatned Eternal Torments now ye see him whom ye have despised now ye find my words to be more then wind my Threatnings not to be vain but true my Promises not to be Chimera's but realities now ye experience your Delights and Dignities and sinful Pleasures ye so much magnified to be vain and fallacious now ye see how foolish and sottish and senseless ye have been in your love ye now lament and bewail with a passionate wringing of your hands and beating of your breasts but too late and therefore all in vain Go therefore ye Wicked go ye Ingrateful go ye Infidels go ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels but for you my Apostles who saw me in this place Condemn'd Scourg'd Crucifi'd Murther'd and yet believ'd in me followed me throw the same Red Sea of Blood and you Apostolical and Religious Persons who did contemn the world and were not asham'd of my Cross espous'd my Poverty and Humility propagating my Doctrine and Faith throughout the whole world and as for you O ye Faithful ones who did believe in me your Redeemer hope in me love worship and obey me leading a life worthy of me a sober righteous and a godly life who did look for that blessed hope and this my second coming to judgment Come ye come ye my Elect come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the world That then must needs be a Great Day that determines business of such great Concernment 5. It may be stil'd the Great Day because that day will put an end to the world will put a period to time to troubles and all kind of impieties and to all the labours and endeavours of men Thus those days among the Romans were call'd Great Days which did put an end to great and grievous Troubles Alexander got the Appellation of Great in that he won strong holds and slew the Kings of the Earth so that the whole world stood in awe of him it was hush and silent but that silence continued not long but till his death which soon came to pass But Christ the King of Kings in that Great Day when he hath destroy'd all the wicked he shall impose a perpetual and universal silence on the whole world Then the Heavens shall be silent because their motion shall cease and so consequently the vicissitude of day and night winter and summer must cease too The motion of the Elements shall cease and so consequently Clouds Winds Rain Hail Tempests and Earthquakes will be no more All Creatures will be silent because there will be none to make any disturbance All the Studies Arts Disciplines Desires Quarrels and Contentions of Men will be silent because all things that were in motion will obtain their period methinks our Saviour pointed at this as it were with his finger for when he read that place in the Prophet Isaiah which runs thus The Spirit of the Lord is upon me c. to Preach the acceptable year of the Lord Et Diem retributionis and the Day of Retribution 't is said he clos'd the Book Luke 4. 18. hinting thus much to us that in that Great Day of Restitution or Retribution all things shall have an end and the Heavens be roll'd up like a Book or Scroll once more This Day of the Lord it may be stil'd the Great Day because the beginning of that Great Day call'd Eternity A Type of which Day we may read of in the Book of Josuah Chap. 10. when Josuah that he might pursue his Enemies to purpose caus'd the Sun to stand still The Sun and Moon stood still the space of one whole day so that one day was as long as two saith the Son of Syrach there was no day like that before it or after it saith the Holy Ghost Josuah 10. 14. Thus when Christ shall encounter his Enemies he will make the Sun and Moon to stand still till he hath reveng'd himself upon them But because that vengeance is to be Eternal the Day must be Eternal too I may adde as in the Day of Josuah's victory one part of the Heaven was always bright and the other dark thus in that Day it will be eternally light to the Elect but as long darkness with the Damned What shall we think those People thought in the time of Josuah who in the opposite part of the Heavens had so long night with what a deal of perplexity did they expect day and if so what will an Eternal night be but if to an Eternal Night be added an Eternal Prison everlasting Hunger and Thirst a never-dying Worm an Eternal Stink an Eternal Horrour Eternal Weeping and Wailing an Eternal Fire and whatever misery the mind of man is able to think of Qualis illa nox erit Tell me if you are able what a Night that will be Good reason then there is that this Day of the Lord spoken of here in my Text should be styl'd Dies Magnus the Great Day That which remains for me to shew you is in what respect it will be Terrible or Dreadful Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the Coming of the Great and Dreadful Day

look upon a man that had deny'd the Faith Vsthazanes fell a weeping saith my Author went into his chamber put off his Courtly attire and brake out into these words Ah! how shall I appear before the Great God of Heaven whom I have deny'd when Simeon but a man will not look on me if he frown how will God look upon me when I come before his Tribunal The thought of Gods Judgment Seat wrought so strongly upon him that he recover'd his spiritual strength and dyed a Glorious Martyr Thus did but men consider that they must one day stand before the Bar of Gods Tribunal they would be casting up how things stand betwixt him and their own Souls would any man loyter away the day when he knows he must shew his work to his Master at night Let every man in all his doings remember his end and so he shall never do amiss remember that all must come to a reckoning in this Great and Dreadful day and that though here in this world men may wear Vizard Masks of Hypocrisie yet when they consider they shall be pluckt off in that day it will be a means that they will order their lives so that their appearance may be with comfort I have done with my Text and it may now be expected that I should speak somewhat of the occasion For you are to know we at present solemnize no less then the Funeral of the Metropolis of this Nation But if you look that I though present when it was on Fire and a Fellow-Sufferer with many of you should present you with a Hypotyposis or Description of that most lamentable and devouring Fire as it is deservedly stil'd you must excuse me if I frustrate your expectation that I conceive is more lively to be depainted by a Pensil then a Pen and better exprest on a Table or Draught then by the Tongue only thus much I shall speak As it is said concerning the roll of a Book given to Ezekiel that it was written within and without and there was written therein Lamentation and Mourning and Woe Ezek. 2. So in every circumstance that accompanied this dismal Conflagration Judgment was writ as in Text Letters whether we consider the Time when it first broke forth the dead of night or the Place a close narrow Lane where many Houses were burn'd down before any Engines could come to play in order to the extinguishing of it or Manner of it burning against the wind so fiercely that is spared no Fabrick in its way though never so august and stately Churches now prov'd no Sanctuaries as in the time of other Fires I may adde it was an amazing Judgment which deluded People and deprived them of the use of their reason I believe there are some here present who with my self did not think that ever the Adversary and Enemy that Dreadful Fire would have entred into our Streets the place where it began being so far distant from our Habitations And so you 'l say this Fire well deserves both the Epithetes in my Text Great and Dreadful as if Almighty God had spoke to London in terminis expresly under the name or notion of a Forrest as once he did to Jerusalem Ezek. 20 47. Behold I will kindle a Fire in thee and it shall devour every green Tree in thee and every dry Tree in thee the flaming flame shall not be quenched c. And all flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it and it shall not be quenched I the Lord who am a consuming Fire 'T was brought to pass then Deo irato irritato God being not only angry but provok'd It was not long before this Fire hapned that God visited this City with the Plague of Pestilence which walkt in as much state along the Streets as ever the chief Magistrate of it did its retinue wore a kind of Purple to the fatal spots being of that colour O the high silence that I was witness of to Gods Glory be it spoke in many places of the City at other times clamorous and tumultuous enough Had it been askt where dwells such a one the answer would have been he is dead where his Wife dead where his Children dead where his Man his Maid dead Pale Death sate in the Windows kept Shop seal'd up Doors so that none durst enter But London soon forgat this Tragedy her filthiness was in her skirts she remembred not her last end or rather how near to her end in some sense she was brought God had no sooner turn'd her sorrow into joy her sighing into singing her mourning into melody her prayers into praises her Tears into Triumphs but they nay we made a bad use of his mercy till a Flood of Fire brake in upon us as a Deluge of Water did on the old World Hence it was that she came down wonderfully to use that expression in the Lamentation of Jeremy concerning Jerusalem Londons incogitancy and and inconsiderateness together with the licentious lewdness following thereupon not to spare the place of my Nativity brought her down with a vengeance to sit in Ashes as Job's calamities brought him to the Dunghil You may suppose her then as a disconsolate Matron using these words Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by behold and see if there be any desolation like unto my desolation which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce or fiery anger He hath sent Fire among my buildings and it hath prevailed against me he hath made me desolate Is it in the wishes of you the Inhabitants of this place whose habitations are yet standing that they should not partake of Londons punishment would you that your Bethel in which through God●s goodness ye are assembled at this time should never be turn'd into Bethaven would you not have Iccobod written upon all that you can call Beautiful and Glorious then see you decline such sins as are mentioned in the specifick Prayer for this occasion Neither are we to forget that in the midst of judgment God remembred mercy not only in not consuming the whole Suburbs that were contiguous but in sparing some of the City and in blessing the endeavours of the Re-builders of it even to a miracle The little time I have been in it I have seen enough to be thankful for while I live As if when in its rubbish it had been solemnly buried by some of her Ministers in several places of it saying since it hath pleas'd Almighty God in his righteousness to take away from us our dear Habitations in which we so much delighted we commit them to the ground Earth to Earth Ashes to Ashes Rubbish to Rubbish in sure and certain hope to see them to have such a Glorious Resurrection like a Phoenix out of its Ashes as shall create wonder in all that shall behold it and this through his Almighty Power who is able to subdue not persons only but all things to himself even