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A29696	London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames / by Thomas Brooks.	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4950; ESTC R24240	405,825	482

13. know that have but read any thing of Scripture or History S. Austin plainly denies that ever the Rom●n Politie could be called properly a Common-weal●h upon this ground that Ubi n●n est Justiti● non est R●spublica he calls Common wealths without justice but magna L●t●ocini● or in Lipsius his language Congeries Confusio Turba 't is but an abuse of the word Respublica Common-wealth where the publick Good is not consulted by an impartial justice and equity 't is but a confused heap a rout of men or if we will call it so at present it will not be so long without impartial justice partly because injustice 1 Kings 12. 1 Sam. 8. 3. and oppression makes the multitude tumultuous and fills the peoples heads with dangerous designs as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margine together and partly because it lays a Nation open and obuoxious to the wrath and vengeance of God as might easily be made good by scores of Scriptures Impartial justice is the best establ●shment of Kingdoms and Common-wealths The King by judgment establisheth the See Numb 25. 11. 2 Sam. 21 14. land Prov. 29. 4. It is the best security against desolating judgments Run ye through the streets of Jerusalem and seek in the broad places thereof if ye can find a man i● there be any that executeth judgment and I will pardon it Jer. 5 1. My Lord 〈◊〉 the Honour of a Magistrate to do justice impartially so i●●s the Honour and Glory of a Magistrate to do justice speedily Jer. 28 12. O house of David th●s s●i●h the Lord execute judgment in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the h●nd of the oppr●ss●r lest my God is very speedy and swift in the execution of Justice Joel 3. 4. Gen. 19. Numb 16. Ezra 7. 20. In this as in other things it becomes Magistrates to be like to God sury go out like fi●e ●nd burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings After examination execution is to be done with expedition When men cry out for justice justice Magistrates must not cry out cr●s cra● to morrow to morrow Magistrates must do justice in the morning nei●her noon-justice nor afternoon justice nor evening-justice nor night-justice is so ac●eptable to God or so honourable to Magistrates or so advantagious to the people as morning-justice is to delay justice is worse sometimes than to deny justice 't is a very dangerous thing for Magistrates to be as long a bringing forth their Verdicts as the Elephant her young Delay of justice makes many more irreconcileable it makes many men go up and down this world with heavy hearts empty purses and thred bare coats I have read of a famous passage of Theodorick King of the Romans who when a Widow came to him with a sad complaint that she had a suit depending in the Court three years which might have been ended in a few days the King demands of her the Judges names she tells him he sends a special Command to them to give all the speedy dispatch that was possible to the Widows Cause which they did and in two days determined it to the Widows liking this being done the King calls for the Judges and they supposing that they should have both applause and reward for their expedition hastned to him full of joy but after the King had propounded several things to them about their former delay● he commanded both their heads to be struck off because they had spun out that Cause to a three years length which two days would have ended Here was Royal justice and speedy justice indeed Psal 101. 8. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land Summomane I will do morning-justice Festinanter so Genebrad I will hastily do it Justice should be on the wing delays are very dangerous and injurious Prov. 13. 12. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick the Hebrew word Memushshacah that is here rendred deferred is from Mash●ch that signifies to draw out at length Men are short-breathed and short-spirited and Hopes hours are full of Eternity and when their hopes are drawn ou● at length this makes their hearts sick and Ah what a world of such sick souls lyes l●nguishing at Hopes Hospital all the world over Hope in the Text is put for the good things hoped for Now when the good things men hope for be it justice or a quick dispatch c. are deferred and delayed this makes the poor Client sick at heart A lingring hope always breeds in the heart a lingring Consumption Julius Caesars quick dispatch is noted in three words Veni vidi vici I came I saw I overcame the harder travel hope hath and the more strongly it labours to bring forth and yet is deferred and delayed the more deadly sick the Client grows The speedy execution of justice is the very life and soul of justice Amos 5. 24. Bu● let judgment run down as waters and righteous●e●s as a mighty stream The Hebrew word Veiiggal that is here rendred run down is from Galal that signifies to rowl down freely plentifully vigorously constantly speedily as the grea● Billows of the Sea or as waves rowl speedily over the Rocks Judgment and Righteousness like a mighty stream should bear down all before it Fiat justitia tuat orb●s let justice be done whatever come of it Deut. 16. 20. That which is altoge●her just shalt thou follow or rather as the Hebrew hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tsedek Tsedek justice justice shalt thou follow that is all manner of justice thou shalt follow and nothing but ●ustice shalt thou follow and thou shalt follow justice sincerely out of love to justice and thou shalt follow justice exactly without turning to the right hand or the left and thou shalt follow justice resolutely in spite of the world the flesh and the Devil and thou shalt follow justice speedily without delays or excuses A Magistrate that has the sword of justice in his hand must never plead there is a Lyon in the way My Lord this will be your Honour while you live and your Comfort when you come to dye that whilst the Sword was in your hand you did justice speedily as well as impartially You did justice in the morning and justice at noon and justice in the afternoon and justice at night what has been your whole Mayoralty but one continued day of justice Who can sum up the many thousand Causes that you have heard and determined and the many thousand differences that you have sweetly and friendly composed and ended If the Lawyers please but to speak out they must ingenuously confess that your Lordship has eased them of a great deal of work My Lord as it is the Honour and Glory of a Magistrate to do justice speedily so it is the Honour and Glory of a Magistrate to do justice resolutely couragiously valiantly It is observable that as soon as ever Joshua came into the

set him on fire round about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart THE Lord in this Chapter by the Prophet Esay doth foretell heavy things against the people and by the way marks the Lords dealings he ever gives warnings before he sends any plagues he lightens before he thunders that the people might not say they did not hear of it and that the wicked might be the more inexcusable and that the godly might make an Ark to save themselves in These words contain in them five ●●veral things 1. The Author of this Destruction or Judgment 2 The Causes of it 3. The Judgment it self 4. W●● they were on whom this Judgment was inflicted 5. The Effect of it Now by Divine permission I will open these word● in order to you For th● first the Author of it Now this is laid down by Qu●stion and Answer Who gave Jacob to the spoil and Israel to the Robbers there 's the Question Did not I the Lord there the Answer God is the Author of all the Plagues and Judgments that befal a Nation Secondly The Causes why the Lord did this to a people that he had chosen to be a special people un●o himself to a people upon whom he had set his love to a people that he Deut. ● 5. 7. 8. Deut. 32. 10 11 12. had owned for his portion and that he had formerly kept as the Apple of his Eye and carried as upon Eagles wings Now the causes are set down fi●st more generally in these words Because they have sinned aga●nst the Lord. Secondly more particularly in these words For they would not walk in his ways neither were they obedient to his Law The third thing observable in the words is the dreadful Judgments themselves that God inflicted upon his sinful people his sinning people and these you have in vers 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger not only his anger but the fury of his anger to shew the greatness of it the extremity of it Mark he doth not say that God did drop down his anger but he poured down hi● anger and indignation This Phrase he poured out is an allusion to the clouds pouring down of water violently all at once in an instant as they do many times in the Levant Seas in Egypt at the Indies and in several other parts of the G●n 6. 11. world as they did in the Deluge when the windows of Heaven were broke open Now by this similitude the Lord shews the dreadfulness the grievousness the suddenness and the vehemency of the Judgments that were fallen upon them And the strength of Battel The Lord appears in Arms against them in the greatness and fierceness of his wrath he sent in a very powerful Enemy upon them that with fire and sword over-ran them and their Country and destroyed them on every side as you may see by comparing the 2 Kings 23. 33. ult with the 24. and 25. Chapters following And hath set him on fire round about That is say some all the Countries Cities and Towns round about Jerusalem were set on fire Yet be knew not Though God had burnt them up on every hand yet they took no notice of it they regarded it not they were not at all affected with the fiery Dispensations of Diod orus Siculus writes that in Aethiopia there is such a sottish insensible people that if you cut them with a drawn sword or slay their wives and children before their faces they are not at all affected with it nor moved at it Such brutes were these Jews God O the dulness the insensibleness the sottishness of the Jews under the most awakning and amazing Judgments of God! And it burned him This some apply to the City of Jerusalem it self God did not only fire the Cities and Towns round about Jerusalem but he also set Jerusalem it self into a flame Jerusalem which was beautiful for situation the joy of the whole Earth the Paradise and Wonder of the world is turned into ashes Yet be laid it not to heart or upon his heart as the Original runs O the monstrous stupidity insensibleness and blockishness of this people Though God had brought them low though their Crown was fallen from their head though their glori●us City was turned into ashes and though they were almost destroyed by many smarting miseries and dreadful calamities yet they were not affected with the stupendious Judgments of God they were not awakned by all the flames that God had kindled about their ears they did not lay the Judgments of God to heart nor they would not lay the Judgments of God upon their hearts The fourth thing observable in the words i● the persons the people that were spoiled destroyed and consumed by fire and they were Jacob and Israel Who gave Jacob for a Isa 58. 2. Zach. 7. 5. Exod. 19. 5. spoil and Israel to the Robbers They were a praying people a professing people a fasting people a peculiar people a priviledged people and yet for their sins they became a destroyed people a consumed people a ruined people The fifth thing observable in the words is the little Effect the Judgments of God had upon them Now they were under such monstrous stupidity that they were not all awakned nor affected By Ti●us Vespasian their land became astage of blood and of all kind of barbarisms and now their so renowned City their Temple and Sanctum Sanctorum so fam'd all the world over was turned into ashes and laid level to the ground Buxtorf Synag Judaica cap. 5. c. 36. with the Judgments of God they regarded them not they laid them not to heart And as stupid and senseless were they when Titus Vespasi●n had laid their City desolate by fire and sword and sold thirty of them for one piece of silver as Josephus and other Historians tell us O Sirs since their crucifying of the Lord of Glory they have never laid their finger upon the right sore to this very day they wo'nt acknowledge their sin in crucifying of the Lord of Glory They confess they have sinned more then ever and therefore 't is that God hath more sorely afflicted them then ever but their cruelty to Christ their crucifying of Christ which ushered in the total ruine of their City and Country they cannot be brought to acknowledge to this very day though the Lord hath burnt them up on every hand and hath scattered them as dung all over the earth to this very day A Learned Writer tells us that they call Christ Bar-chozab the Son of a Lye a Bastard and his Gospel Aven Gilaion the Volume of Lyes or the Volume of Iniquity and us Christians Goii●n that is Gentiles Edomites when they salute a Christian they call him Shed that is Devil They hate all Christians but none so much as those that are converted from Judaism to Christianity and all this after so great a burning and desolation that