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death_n	day_n	time_n	year_n	9,302	5	4.9795	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45567	Safety in the midst of danger a sermon preached in the church of Alhallowes Barkin, Jan. 4, 1655 : upon the anniversary commemoration of the dismall fire which happened in the said parish, on Jan. 4, 1649 / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1656 (1656)	Wing H747; ESTC R20509	19,795	32

yet strange to Moses unexpected but comfortable and the signification of it very important The usefull note which this word prompts us to is That the wonderfull workes of Gods hand ought to be the singular objects of our eye when God speaketh it is reason we should heare and when he acts that we should behold All Gods actions deserve our observation but his eminent workes are specially remarkable Though common people goe along the streets unregarded yet if a Royall Prince passe by with his noble traine every one runs to his door to behold him and if we be so carelesse as to take little or no notice of Gods daily administrations yet surely when he is pleased to passe before us in glorious manifestations of his power or justice or mercy we should be spectators of them Nor is it enough for us to cast a glance to view in transitu but we must sit downe to draw the pictures of Gods workes before our eyes in their severall lineaments It is the Psalmists call come and see not onely see as you goe but come on purpose to see the workes of the Lord what desolations he hath wrought in the earth and to this purpose is Samuels advice consider what great things the Lord hath done for you Indeed it is that to which there is great need we should be excited the most of us being so apt to neglect this duty It was the Prophets complaint of the wicked in his time Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see were it onely Gods finger we should regard it so did David I consider thy Heavens the worke of thy fingers but much more when it is his hand Every stretching forth of his hand should be observed but much more the lifting of it up it being so much the more visible by how much the higher it is lifted up Well doth the Prophet say of them they will not see since they could not but see did they not wilfully blinde their eyes Oh that this charge might not too truly be drawn up against us Gods hand is lifted up sometimes in wrath and sometimes in love now upon others and then upon our selves and yet who is a diligent observer of it we cast as his word so his workes behinde our backs and set light by his dispensations Let then this Behold serve as a Bell to awake our sluggish drowsinesse that we may open our eyes to see and consider Divine operations Indeed this is that whereby we shall manifest our selves to be both grateful and prudent Beholding puts upon thankfulnesse and thankfulnesse puts upon beholding the grateful soul being so enamoured especially with choice mercies that it knoweth not how to look off and withall this is no small piece of prudence since it engageth God to doe grea●er things no wonder if the Prophet assert The man of wisdome shall see thy name I end this with that sweet close of the Psalmist after his enumeration of various providentiall workes Who so is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand to wit experimentally the loving kindnesse of the Lord And thus the Text leadeth us to the duty of the day which is to behold that worke of God which some yeares agoe on this day of the moneth was wrought in this Parish A worke in some respects unlike and in some respects like to this in the Text Indeed if we take a view of what then fell out we shall finde there was both a burning and a consuming and in that a dissimilitude there was a burning but not a consuming and in that a similitude and both call for an Ecce Behold 1. There was a burning and consuming and that both of ehings and persons Barrells of Gunpowder casually taking fire blew up houses burn up goods consume much substance to ashes by which meanes many families are impoverished and they who before had but little had then nothing left neither house to cover them nor garments to cloath them nor necessaries to relieve them and truly this sad event calls for a Behold of commiseration and reliefe Blessed is he saith the Psalmist who considereth the poor that is so as to pitty and succour Indeed if the eye affect the heart the heart will open the hand and what poor should be thus considered if not those whom providence is pleased to make so by such a sodain accident Where God sheweth severity there he expecteth men should have pitty and whilest he exerciseth with correction he would have us expresse compassion Nor did this fires consuming stay here not onely houses and goods but men women and children are burnt to ashes some siting in their owne houses others met together in publique houses all probably about their secular occasions are unexpectedly snatched out of this world their soules seperate from their bodies their members rent one from another their flesh and bones a prey to the mercilesse flames and surely this dolefull stroke calls for a Behold of expectation and preparation What then befell them may by the like or any other accident happen to us Alas how little did any of them imagine when they rose in the morning that they should before the next day make their beds in the dust and become an heap of ashes Oh what need is there though we cannot foresee the time meanes and manner of our death yet at all times to make account of and provide for death which may come in that time by that meanes and after that manner whereof we are least aware How should every one of us upon the hearing of this sad blow entertaine these or the like serious thoughts This day sixe yeares a fire devoured my neighbours houses perhaps a like may this day burne downe mine This day was then the last day of life to many who might else in probability have been now alive and why may not this day be my last they perished by fire so may I or be drowned in the water or killed by a thousand other accidents why should I live a day an houre a moment in that state wherein I would not dye since in a day an houre a moment death may seize upon me 2. I have shewed you the dark side of that cloud of sulpheurous smoak which then covered this Parish yea this place where we are now assembled I meane the hurt and mischiefe which came to passe by this terrible fire But withall let me set before you the light side that mercifull preservation from this desperate danger which many of you here present experienced Some there are among you who very probably might have been in this burning but providence prevented it You who not long before were passing by this place upon your imployments you who intended at that very time to have been in some of those houses upon severall businesses but were diverted cannot but acknowledge you escaped a great danger Some of you were in the burning and yet so