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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57598	Londons resurrection, or, The rebuilding of London encouraged, directed and improved in fifty discourses : together with a preface, giving some account both of the author and work / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing R1879; ESTC R28808	254,198	404

multitudes of Instances This practice of theirs is one of the names of Blasphemy written in their foreheads and by such means as these they go beyond us But the mony which is given upon the two last accounts is certainly the result and product not of real bounty but of woful blindness and ignorance That which is such a kind of cheat in the receivers can hardly be called charity in the givers Then may we draw to this conclusion Papists have waies to cheat men of their mony which Protestants have not yet scorn to use but Papists have no Arguments truely deduced either from Scripture or sound reason wherewith to invite men to works of charity that Protestants have not and they alone well used and mannaged are and will be sufficient If Papists will take upon them to be wiser than God and to teach him who is only wise how to furnish the World with better motives to charity and good works than ever yet he hath done so will not Protestants It were better London should continue in ashes than have its foundation laid in such Blasphemous Impostures but that it need not do neither for want of Scriptural Arguments mighty through God to pull down the strong holds of mens unmercifulness and to bring into captivity every thought which exalteth it self against obedience thereunto We that are Protestants can tell men according to our Principles that the least work of true charity shall have a great reward that the reward of persons truely charitable shall be no less than eternal life that every such work shall follow good men when they dye and add to the weight of their Crown of Glory We can tell rich men that if they will not make to themselves friends of the unrighteous Mammon they shall not be received into everlasting habitations of glory that if they shut up their bowels against poor Lazaruses they shall fare no better than Dives did who denied his crumbs of bread and was himself denied a drop of water We can freely tell every man that it is as possible for him to get to Heaven without faith as without charity and as impossible for him to be saved without charity as without faith Then I appeal to every mans reason whether it be not an act of charity and piety to help up with this poor City and particularly with the Hospitals and Churches thereto belonging Though our Religion be by Papists reproached as Hannah was by Peninnah with barrenness namely in reference to good works it may hereafter come and I hope it will to sing as Hannah did in 1 Sam. 2.5 The barren hath born seven and she that hath many Children is waxed feeble DISCOURSE XV. Upon the looks and prospect of London whilst but some few houses are built here and there and others but building in the midst of many ruinous heaps O London what is thy present hue how many other things art thou like unto at this day but how unlike thy self unlike what thou wert yea unlike what thou art if we compare one part with another Mulier formosa supernè desinit in piscem what a motley linsey woolsey exchequered thing art thou at this day One while methinks thou lookest like a forrest in which are some tall trees some shrubs some meer stumps otherwhere all pluckt up by the roots or may I not liken thee to an old orchard in which are some trees that have ripe fruit upon them other have but buds others but meer blossoms but the greater part are dead and withered nor dost thou less resemble a great common field in which some early corn is at full growth elsewhere that which was latter sown hath yet but peept out of the ground and very many acres up and down lie quite fallow We read of the waters of the sanctuary how that some of them were but to the ancles others to the knees others up to the loins Ezek. 47.4 That it may be was successively but this all at once Thus in a family where are many children ordinarily there are some at the estate of men and women some boyes and girles some infants and some one or more that are yet but in the mothers womb Is London a village that I see the houses in it stand so scatteringly and at so great a distance one from another scarce enough together to make that number which is said to make a conventicle 1. Having been degraded for a while must it commence a village before it commence a City As in a through-fare village standing upon a great road most houses are Inns or Alehouses to entertain strangers so may we observe that the major part of houses built upon the ruines are let out to Alehouse-keepers and Victuallers to entertain workmen imployed about the City How easily doth the present condition of London bring France to mind where a middle sort of people are scarce to be found but all are said to be either Princes as it were or Peasants Gentlemen or slaves Our stately-houses may serve for an emblem of the former our ruinous heaps of the latter or one may represent the flourishing papists in that Country and the other the oppressed Hugonites they and their Churches lying together in ashes Would I give scope to phantasy I could adde that London now looks like Euclids Elements or some such books in which are all sorts of schemes and figures as straight lines crooked lines triangles quadrangles hexangles and what not or like a book of Anatomy full of cuts representing in one page the shape of a head in another of an arm in a third of a legg c. So in one place there is as it were the head or beginning of a street in another place the feet or end thereof by its self elsewhere the arm or breast or belly of a street the middle I mean standing all alone A goodly uniformity there is in so much of it as is built together but ruines and confusion round about it which represents it like a beautiful face stuck with black patches which is very lovely so far as it is seen but all the rest is ugliness and deformity manifest pride and concealed beauty Neither is London at this day unlike the month of April in which I am writing this consisting of quick vicissitudes of rain and sunshine one part of the Heavens smiling another frowning and lowring So one part of the street smiles upon us almost throughout the ruines but the rest of it frowneth and looks ghastly If we compare it to one that is rising out of his sepulchre it must be to one that hath his grave cloaths about him for so hath London But when all is said London at this day represents nothing more then our own divisions together with the ill effects and consequences thereof For first of all is it not unquoth and dolesome to live in houses that stand at such a distance one fom another Some of them like a cottage in a garden of cucumbers

Ezek. 37.5 Thus saith the Lord God unto those bones behold I will cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live And I will lay sinews upon you and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and ye shall know that I am the Lord. DISCOURSE III. Of how great Consequence it is that the now wast and desolate City of London should be re-edified SUrely it was not without cause that London whilest standing hath always continued the Metropolis of England though no such promise were ever made to it as unto Judah of old that the scepter or principality should never depart from it and though an old prophecy hath been that London was and York should be Yea though London hath several times ceased to be its self for a while lying in ashes as now it doth once fourscore years together and other places have succeded in the Metropolitanship for that time yet no sooner was it raised again but other places as if but its Deputies and Viceroies did presently resign the preheminence to it and like to Nebuchadnezzar come from grass and turn'd man again it was presently re-inthroned and restored to its former dignity and Primacy This I say was not for nothing but did certainly imply there was something in the place the scituation I mean for sometimes little else hath been left that did render it much more fit then any other to be the Metropolis or head City of England so that as often as London was in being no other town or City would offer to come in competition with it It was the river Nilus made Egypt rich and fruitful and hath it not been the River of Thames hath alwayes under God made London what it was They that would utterly destroy London must dry up that River as the river Euphrates for the destroying of Babylon or set it at some greater distance from that City For whilst they two stand so near together London is like to be rich and fruitful like trees that are planted by the rivers of water or like meadow ground that is overflown What is said of Joseph is like to be verified of London Gen. 49.22 Joseph is a fruitful bough by a wall whose branches run over the wall By the side of London is planted that great trunk of the vena porta of the Nation I mean the great mouth and inlet of trade the river of Thames I mean which makes it so necessary for England that England cannot much better subsist without it that is to say in wealth and prosperity then a man can live whose mouth is sowed up and who can take no nourishment but as a glyster no breath but at his nostrils They are deceived that think England may be destroyed meerly and only by destroying London for a time for if England its self be not first destroyed it must and will God permitting always have another London let the former be burnt or demolished ever so often London is the heart of England and if it were not primum vivens it will be ultimum moriens at leastwise England if it do not die first must die not long after it for without a heart it cannot long live If London fall it must rise again or all England must fall too at leastwise into great misery disgrace and poverty London is the place to which those passages of the Prophet concerning Tyre are most applicable of any place I know Isa 23.4 Thou whom the Merchants that pass over sea have replenished the harvest of the river is her revenue and she is a mart of Nations c. v. 8. The crowning City whose merchants are Princes and whose tr●ffiquers are the honourable of the earth At leastwise this she was fuimus troes nigens gloria and this with the blessing of God she is most capable to be again And is it not of great consequence that a City of so vast a concernment to the whole nation should be rebuilt Which of all our famous Cities is fit to make a Head for so vast and Noble a Body as England is London excepted There is much deformity and inconvenience in a Head that is much too little for the body as in one that is too big Besides if a head be not well scituated as suppose a mans head were placed upon his arm or back and not upon his shoulders such a posture would be not only inconvenient but monstrous And verily any other Metropolis for England besides London would be of like inconvenient positure and scituation the head would not stand in the right place either for commodiousness or decency I would know what great Kingdome there is in the world that hath not a Metropolis or Head City answerable to its self And why should England differ from all the rest should we be unlike all other Nations and become their scorn Is not some one City magnificent and splendid above all the rest like the Sun that out-shineth all the other stars greatly for the honor both of a King and Kingdome I had almost said England looks sneakingly whilst it is without a London it doth as it were hide its head in the dust and seemeth to be ashamed of its self if it have any head to hide Tell us not of the Suburbs Citizens know how inconvenient they are for their business over what the City is and besides both together are little enough for traders and other inhabitants else it might have saved them charge and trouble to have dwelt in houses built to their hands and well seasoned they durst not go after the declining Sun lest they themselves should decline also in their trade and business They found more warmth in the heart of London then ever they expect in the extreme parts as they say of arterial blood that is warmest for that it cometh immediately from the heart Cottages within the walls seem to please and accommodate them better then stately houses without He that thinks the rebuilding of London might well be spared if any man or woman can so think let him or her consider how many houses upon survey are said to have been consumed by the late fire viz. no less then thirteen thousand or thereabouts now many of those houses did contain two some three families apiece so that we may well suppose twenty thousand families most of them traders to have been by that fire dispossest now where shall so many thousand families of trading people be disposed of if London be not built again shall they go into the country and trade there how inconvenient and insignificant would that be besides that so to do were to eat the bread out of the mouths of country shop-keepers Whilst they live at a distance from them Citizens are helpful to tradesmen in the country as the sun when it is farthest removed from the moon shines full upon it and exhibits that which is called the full moon but when they two are in conjunction then doth the Moon disappear being