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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37054	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, at St. Mary le Bow upon the 21th of November, 1675 by William Dvrham, B.D., rector of St. Mildreds Breadstreet, London.	Durham, William, 1611-1684.; Durham, William, d. 1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing D2834; ESTC R31391	15,202	42

threatned in the Text 4. What way is yet left to escape so great destruction 1. Whether we of this place and Age have not been Men of Reproofs For the reproofs and checks of Conscience and the private personal rebukes of Friends every man can best and only judge for himself what he hath had But as for those which have been more Publick whether verbal or real the thing is so evident that 't is past denial we have had our reproofs 1. For verbal Reproofs Reproof as you have heard is one main end and use for which the Holy Scripture was given by God And there is no Nation under heaven where the Word of God hath been more purely powerfully constantly preacht than in this Nation this City We have been as Goshen a place of Light when almost all the World hath sate in darkness It 's now one hundred and fifty years since the light of the glorious Gospel hath shone out amongst us more clearly than in most other places and great hath been the company of Preachers Men not of Ordinary rank but so many Apollo's mighty in the Scripture Who have performed the Office of faithful Watchmen to tell you of your sins and warn you of your danger Men who according to the abundant Grace of God given to them have laid Judgment to the line and Righteousness to the plummet Who haue neither sew'd pillows under your arms nor daub'd with untempered Morter I need not name them to you nor the series of time wherein they lived you remember some you have heard of the rest So that if this place be destroyed 't is not for the want of knowledge I am sure not for the want of the means of knowledge They have rather surfeited and waxed wanton than suffered a famine of the Word of Grace or of any thing needful to salvation 2. And for Real reproofs whereby God hath testified against us his displeasure for our sins that he might bring us to repentance we have not been altogether without them neither I shall instance only in two which may be yet fresh in our memories such as our Predecessors never felt and may those who shall come after us never feel the like I mean the last consuming Plague and the late dreadful Fire And because too many amongst us live as if they had never seen or not observed these dreadful Judgments afford me your patience while I give you a short representation of both that so upon serious thoughts you may learn Righteousness by the things which you have suffered Of the Plague first When Death mounted upon his pale Horse rode in triumph through your streets and spared neither age sex nor condition When the high-waies to this Great City were as in the daies of Shamgar unoccupied and none that could well avoid Judg. 5. 6. it cared to come within the sight or scent of it When the widest streets were but thinly peopled and many of those few you met carried death in their faces When a man's breath was abhorred by his nearest Relations and those of his most intimate Acquaintance hid themselves from him When the Air it self became infectious and that without which we could not live conveyed death into our bosoms When the sorrows of the dying Husband were increased by the groans of his departing Wife and both aggravated by the cries of their languishing Children When the hungry Infant crawl'd to the sick Mothers breast and suckt poison instead of nourishment When your ears were fill'd all the day with the noise of passing-Bells and all night with the doleful tone of those who call'd for them to burial When the sad Parents were put to the ungrateful task of being the winders bearers buriers of their own Children When the innocent sheep were committed to the ravenous wolf sick people to the keeping of cruel rapacious and unsatiable Nurses who were often 't is to be feared more cruel to them than their diseases and murthered those whom their diseases might have spared When Death fished with his largest Net that had the smallest meshes and spared not the minues the Infants of a span long When every day added such a number to the dead as swell'd the weekly Bills beyond all Presidents In a word When the Plague was worse in some sense than that of Egypt There was not a house wherein there was not one dead but here was Amos 6. 10. many a house in which there was not one left alive Descend we to the next year wherein God uses a new method and severer demonstration of his wrath He had formerly sent a fire into our blood and now sends a fire into our houses that year took away the Inhabitants from their houses this takes away the Habitations from the Inbabitants One year he throws an hundred thousand carkasses under ground and the next levels thirteen thousand houses with it He hath dealt with us as he threatned to do unto Jerusalem and made this City as he threatned that Jer. 19. 11 12. a very Tophet Tophet was a place of burial and a Isai 3. 33. place of burning so was this City one year you buried till there was no place to bury in In the next it burnt till there was little left to be consumed A fire like that of Hell the horrour whereof no pen can express nor tongue can tell Worse than that at Tabera that was but in the skirts of the Numb 11. 1 2. Camp but this in the bowels of this Royal City When God had permitted a vile Miscreant to throw but a flunk of fire and his vindictive Justice blows the bellows how soon is it kindled into a flame how soon got upon the house tops what a doleful noise awakes men from their sleepy beds and calls them up to quench the growing flames They in the mean time like men amazed cannot find their hands but are even at their wits end and know not which way to turn themselves In the mean speace the greedy flames pursue their prey and while men make none or feeble resistance gather strength and because it is not suddenly quenched grows unquenchable Who can express the horrour of that day when this Royal City the Metropolis of the Nation the Chamber of our Kings so renowned through the whole VVorld was become a Tophet one Oven VVhen the proud flames had advanced their curled looks above the tops of the stateliest buildings insulting over all engins and contemning all force that was used against them VVhen the fire like the Smith's forge grew the hotter for the water that was brought to quench it VVhen it lickt up whole houses as the Oxe licks up grass VVhen massie timber was but as straw and the very bricks burnt again like stubble Then might you have seen fourscore and odd Churches dedicated to God's Service all in flames preaching wrath to such as would not obey that VVord which had been preached in them It were infinite and beside my purpose