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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

for fear of being bound there made this answer Acts 21.13 I am ready not to be bound only but to die at Jerusalem for the name of Christ Thus were their disswasions like water thrown upon Lime which did meerly kindle it Thus you see the way of kindling Lime shews us both what our Corruptions are and what our Graces should be and woe unto us that our Corruptions have that vigour which our Graces want Henceforth then by the help of God I will endeavour that my lusts may be like green wood which though it lie upon the fire will hardlie burn as being choked with its own moisture and that the Graces of Gods Spirit may be in me as so much Lime the fiery particles whereof meeting with their old enemy water presently break off their association with other Elements firmly unite among themselves and of potential fire become actual and send up those watery particles in smoak which went about to extinguish them If I cannot flame as Lime cannot yet I will endeavour to be as smoaking Lime or Flax which Christ will not quench and when I can do no more at present against those lusts which fight against my soul I will as it were hiss at them as lime doth at the approach of water that is testify my displeasure and indignation against them FINIS Sixty One MEDITATIONS AND REFLECTIONS UPON The most Remarkable Passages and Circumstances of the late DREADFUL FIRE PART III. BY SAMVEL ROLLE Minister of the Word and sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinson 1667. To the Right Worshipful Sir JOHN LANGHAM Knight and Baronet Sir THOMAS PLAYER Knight And Chamberlain of the City of London AND TO RICHARD HAMPDEN of Hampden in the County of Bucks Esquire AND To all his dear Friends and sometime Pastoral-charge the Inhabitants of Thistleworth in the County of Middlesex S. R. Dedicateth this part of his Meditations and wisheth the Blessings of the Life that now is and of that which is to come MEDITATIONS Upon all the Remarkeable Passages and Circumstances of the late dreadfull Fire MEDITATION I. Of the Weight of Gods Hand in the late destruction of London by Fire REmarkable are those expressions of Job cap. 6. ver 2. 3. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed and my calamity laid in the Ballances together for now it would be heavier than the sand of the Sea therefore my words are swallowed up and ver 4. For the Arrows of the Almighty are within me and the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit the Terrors of God do set themselves in array against me How fitly may the people of England but especially the late Inhabitants of London take up the same expressions How justly may they wish that their Calumities were weighed by others as well as felt by themselves But as it is is impossible to find Ballances able to contain the sands of the Sea so is i● next to impossible to find any in which the Calamity of London may be weighed or any thing able to weigh against them such is the heaviness thereof besides the sands of the Sea Yea i● Jo●s particular grief and misery were heavier than those sands may not the like be said of what hath now befallen thousands all whose losses and crosses put together though not any of them singly are certainly heavier than his either was or could be I think it is so far from being a sin to put the judgements of God as it were into a scale that we may learn how heavy they are so far as we can attain that I question not but it is a duety and am sure it was the practice of that sensible Prophet holy Jeremiah Lam. 4.6 The punishment of the Iniquity of the Daughter of my People is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodome c. There we see he layes the punishment of Sodome in one scale and that of Jerusalem in another and weighing them against each other concludes the latter to have been the heavier of the two Yea indeed the whole Book of Lamentations is as it were a pair of Ballances hung up into which the Prophet is casting in the severall miseries of Ierusalem parcell by parcell as he could take them up till he had thrown in all that he and others might understand to what weight the whole sum did amount Though there are some that are ready to faint under the chastisements of the Lord yet more are apt to despise them especially after some time and when the surprize is over and in case they themselves are not so immediately or so deeply concerned in them as others are Then are they ready to say to others in reference to their losses as the chief Priests and Elders did to Iudas in reference to the trouble of his mind Mat. 27.4 What is that to us look thou to that Or to shew themselves Gallio like of whom we read that when the Greeks took Softhenes the chief Ruler of the Synagogue and beat him before the Judgement-seat Gallio cared for none of those things Though he saw a Person of Quality and of Integrity unjustly beaten in a publike way he regarded it not Let the Gallio's of this Age read what I am now to write us touching the miseries of poor London and be perfectly unconcerned if they can or exempt themselves if it be possible from having any share in that Calamity which they seem to slight as if it were nothing to them or as if the late fire had not so much as singed one hair of their heads neither would at the long run I dare warrant them that gray hairs of misery are upon them also and upon that account though they know it not When I enter upon the Meditation of Londons destruction I had need to fortifie my self with those words of Solomon viz. that It is better to go to the House of mourning than to the House of feasting Eccles 7.2 For such a discourse can be no other than as it were a House of mourning yea As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon Zach. 12.11 And now methinks the Book of Ieremy called Lamentations doth so wonderfully suit the present case of London as if it had been calculated for the Meridian of that City rather than of Ierusalem or as if God had stretched out upon London the same line of confusion as he did upon Ierusalem or as if those divine thunder bolts which were shot against both those famous Cities had been made in one and the same mold or as God speaks Amos 4.11 I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew Sodome and Gomorrah So as God overthrew Ierusalem in like manner and with many the same circumstances hath he destroyed London Our sins were much what the same with theirs as I have shewed when I ennumerated the procuring causes of fire and it is but just that our plagues and punishments should be the same

think God must over-turn the course of Nature if he would do this and that for us as he spake of Gods making windows in heaven Whereas himself who is only wise knows how to accomplish what we desire without using such violent extraordinary means Be consident the Lord knows how together with every danger and temp●●tion to make a way for escape and relie upon what is spoken Psal 91.1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty and let the Children of men put their trust under the shadow of his wings MEDITATION LVIII Upon the Warning which other Places may and ought to take by the Burning of London LOndons downfall may Alarm all the World As many bad People as were in it let him that can point out that City in which there are more so far as men can judg that are truly good If ten righteous persons yea if fifty yea if ten times fifty to speak within compass could have saved it London had not been destroyed There were more than a few Names within that Sardis of such as had not defiled their garments like others Yet it should seem not enow to weigh against the sins of the rest Comparing London with other places we may call it a Green-Tree and If this were done to the green Tree What shall be done to the dry If Judgement begin at the House of God where shall the wicked and ungodly appear I doubt not but there were sins enow in London to deserve the Judgment that did befall it yea and a greater than that but by the same reason there is guilt enough in all other places to expose them to as great a desolation Job had sins enow of his own to acquit God in stripping him of all his earthly Comforts and setting him upon a Dunghill to scrape his sores with postheards yet Job had not at that time his fellow in all the East-Countrey for a man searing God and eschewing evil so that God might as justly have done the same thing to any man of that age as to him Sins comparatively small have sometimes been branded with great Punishments witness Davids numbering the People and the Bethshemites looking into the Ark possibly to show that little sins are commensurate with great Judgements in point of evill as a grain of some Poisons may be as hurtful as a dram of others so lesser sinners do sometimes fall under heavy Judgements to show that even they deserve such Scorpions as those and others greater punishments but that the patience of God extends to the reprieving of them for the present as Solomon said to Abiathar Thou art worthy to dye but I will not p●t thee to death at this time 1 King 2.26 Such as charge those sins upon London which it was never guilty of might have had more colour for so doing if the Judgement had not fallen upon all sorts of men as well those whom they think free from any such guilt as others who were really free though they do not think them so To speak of London as worse than indeed it was that is as worse than other places is no other than to bespeak security in other places and to prevent that warning which they ought to take and which is indeed given them by the destruction of London Who hath not reason to think that other places shall likewise perish if they repent not All my doubt concerning London is whether it were better than most other places proportionably to the mercies and means of grace which it enjoyed above them or whether those things considered its sins did not preponderate but whether absolutely considered it did not more abound with people of good and unblamable lives then most other places do I do not much question nor can I tell who doth Could I be heard beyond the Seas I would say Let Rome Vienna Venice Madrid and Paris take warning by the destruction of London and repent betimes as in dust and ashes and to keep within our own bounds Let Dublin and Edenborough do so likewise or to come nearer home Let York Bristol Norwich and all other Cities of England nwo in being meet the Lord in the way of his judgements and seek to turn away his wrath lest they drink of the same Cup of trembling whereof London hath drunk so deep lest God do unto them as he hath done unto it as he threatned of old to do to Jerusalem as unto Shiloh Jer. 7.14 lest he rain fire and an horrible tempest upon them as he hath done upon that famous City yea lest when London having humbled its self under the mighty hand of God shall be restored and lifted up again which we pray and hope for their doom should be to succeed it in the same Calamity under which it groaneth at this day Which thing we should all wish may be prevented as to each of them by a Sincere and seasonable Repentance FINIS Twenty Seven MEDITATIONS Consisting of COUNSEL and COMFORT TO DIRECT and SUPPORT CHRISTIANS Under outward troubles But especially calculated for the use of those that were and are great Sufferers by the Fire Part IV. By Samuel Rolle Minister of the Word and sometime Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinson 1667. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Sir THOMAS ADAMS Knight and Baronet TO Sir FRANCIS BICKLEY Knight and Baronet And to the rest of the wothy Citizens of the now desolate though not despairing City OF LONDON Especially such of them as either reside at Hackney or are Governours of Saint Thomas's Hospital in Southwark S. R. A Native of London and true Mourner for the Calamity thereof in gratitude to several of them and in true respect to all dedicateth this most Consolatory part of his Meditations wishing the reparation of all their losses in Gods due time and their compleat Assurance of an interest in those better things that cannot be lost Mixt Meditations and Discourses of Counsell and Comfort to such as were great sufferers by the firing of London DISCOURSE I. Of Deliverance under losses and troubles as well as out of them TO say there is a Deliverance under L●sses and Troubles as well as another out of them must needs be good sense because it is good Divinity The holy Ghost in the Scripture speaks of such a thing to whom it is impossible to speak either untruly or improperly It were blasphemy and non-sense to charge him either with falshood or folly who is Truth and Wisdom its selfe and the fountain of all that Truth and Wisdom which is dispersed amongst all intelligent creatures He himself tels us how Christ was heard in the prayers which he made for Delive cance unto him that was able to save from death Heb. 5.8 Yet was he not saved from the Cross intimating thereby that there is a Deliverance properly enough so called under the cross as well as from under it