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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