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A57597	Shlohavot, or, The burning of London in the year 1666 commemorated and improved in a CX discourses, meditations, and contemplations, divided into four parts treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment, II. The natural causes of fire, morally applied, III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire, IV. Councels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment / by Samuel Rolle ...	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Preliminary discourses.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Physical contemplations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Sixty one meditations.; Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. Twenty seven meditations.	1667 (1667)	Wing R1877; Wing R1882_PARTIAL; Wing R1884_PARTIAL; ESTC R21820	301,379	534

of his hands Methinks the punishment threatned in that case seems to speak that there is contempt of God in the sin said I only threatned yea executed For there is not only a woe to such v. 11. but in the 13. verse is added Therefore my people are gone into captivity And v. 14. Therefore hell hath inlarged her self and their glory and their multitude shall descend into it Doubtless it is a great sin in Gods account that procures so great a punishment Who can perform the grand duties of an afflicted state without considering who must not of necessity consider and as the Poet calls it in sese descendere go down into himself if he will search and try his wales and turn to the Lord as that afflicted Church is exhorted to do Lam. 3.40 But surely that proof is ex abundanti which is more than the express command in the first cited text and in others parallel with it Deut. 8.5 Thou shalt consider that as a man chasteneth his son so the Lord chasteneth thee where both the matter and manner of their chastisement seemeth to be proposed to their consideration viz. that God had punished them and how But I have produced these proofs rather as motives to excite our wills and affections to so hard a work than as arguments to prove so easie and manifest a truth If the question be put what are the things we should consider of in an evil day it must here receive but a general answer for to answer it particularly and with reference to that amazing judgment by fire which lately befell the great City will be the drift and substance of all our ensuing Meditations and Discourses Yet I shall venture so far forth to prevent my self and anticipate what is behind as to say that it is our duty in an evil day to consider first what may make for our own humiliation and principally these two things viz. the greatness of our own sins Lam. 3.8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she is removed Also the greatness of the judgments of God that are upon us For as sins so judgments ought not to be extenuated Lam. 4.6 The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom that was overthrown in a moment Secondly what may make for the vindication of God as just and righteous in all that he hath done against us To that purpose are the ensuing expressions of Scripture Job 34.23 God will not lay upon man more than is right that he should enter into judgment with him Pharaoh himself could say The Lord is righteous but I and my people are wicked And this was when God rained down baile and fire upon him Exod. 9.27 and so said Rehoboam when Shishak came against him 2 Chron. 12.2 Shall such as they justifie God and shall not we saying with the Prophet Jeremy Lam. 1.18 The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled c. And as he elsewhere Man for the punishment of his sin And then the causes of our Afflictions those we should also consider of remembring that trouble springs not out of the dust We should look at God as the efficient cause of all out miseries Lam. 2.17 The Lord hath done that which he hath devised he hath thrown down and hath not pitied and in that Chapter we finde the hand of God owned in every verse for ten verses together Neither is it less needful to consider what are the meritorious and procuring causes of all our miseries So Lam. 3.42 We have transgressed and rebelled thou hast not pardoned And Lam. 1.6 Jerusalem remembred not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully Nor may we forget the final cause or Gods primary end in sending them which is of all the rest most comfortable to consider So saith Moses to the Israelites Deut 8.2 Thou shalt remember the way which the Lord thy God led thee this forty years in the Wilderness to humble thee and to prove thee c. Also Heb. 12.10 But he chasteneth us for our profit that we might be made partakers of his holiness Again we ought to consider what are the duties that are incumbent on us in a time of Adversity what is the Law and the Decorum of that condition and how we ought to behave our selves under the rod of the Almighty viz. Humbly Patiently Circumspectly c. of which we shall have occasion to discourse more fully hereafter The next thing to be considered at such a time is how and wherewithall we may be able to support and bear up our own hearts and the hearts of others in an evil day David saith Psal 119.50 This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickned me Which may be thus construed that it was a comfort to him in his afflictions to think that the Word of God had been a quickning and inlivening word to him which to many others is but as a dead letter One end of Gods vouchsafing us his Word is said to be that we through patience and comfort in the Scripture might have hope Rom 15.4 and that we should endeavour to comfort others is evident from 2 Cor. 1.4 where God is said to comfort his people in all their tribulations that they may be able to comfort others that are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith themselves are comforted of God One thing more I think of that should be considered by us in a time of adversity but shall not presume to say that and the rest I have mentioned are all and that is how and by what means we may in Gods way and without sin in Gods due time obtain deliverance as Paul in another case cries out who shall deliver we read in 1 Cor. 10.13 that God will together with the temptation also make a way to escape How to finde out a way of escaping is the care of all men or of the most but how to finde out that way which God hath made for our escape which is alwaies a lawful and a regular way that should fall under our consideration as also how to avoid and shun all other waies of escaping though ever so easie to us Now have we so many things to consider of in an evil day then O my soul here is work for thee as much as ever thou canst turn thy self to Gird up thy loines and set about it Now if ever is a time for serious consideration for who knows not that it is a time of great adversity and rebuke and needs it must when the most famous City in these three Kingdoms that was lately such is become a very ruinous heap Now London the glory of three renowned Kingdoms is made almost like unto Sodom and to Gomorrah Surely that man hath lost his thinking faculty that cannot think of this and he that is not sensible of it is past all feeling and seared as with a hot Iron O my soul I scarce know what to think of thee that