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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

famish those lusts which you have idolized cut off those right hands that they may grasp no more of your money for time to come and let the poor receive it in their stead Is it not better lending to the Lord than giving to the Devil Why will you buy repentance so dear when you might put your money to so much better uses Some that have fallen into very hainous sins have built Hospitals for the relief of their own Consciences God may please to leave you to the same sins and so extort that out of you by the same means if it will not come freely Some though free from notorious vices yet do manifestly exceed in diet and in apparel What if you should lessen your Table by one or two dishes every day What if you should spare something of that superfluous cost which you use to give yourselves in every garment and resolving so to do should contribute all that to the rebuilding and reindowing the consumed Hospitals which you reckon that good husbandry would save you every year What if Gentlemen should keep fewer hounds and hawks or none at all in order to so good a work Yea What if you should put two horses lesse into your Coaches which had wont to be drawn with four or six You may think yourselves at liberty in this case but pardon me if I think you are bound It is not matter of choice but duty to minister to the necessities of others out of our superfluities and to their extremities out of our very conveniences He that is unmercifull or uncharitable is also unjust because he doth not use the talent wherewith his Lord hath intrusted him for those ends for which it was put into his hands He doth not fulfill the just will of the Donor Let it never be said that God gave you Estates to do good with but you spent them upon your lusts that you can find so many pounds or hundreds of pounds to consume in Taverns and Tippling-houses so much treasure wherewith to keep Mistresses otherwise called whores so much gold and silver wherewith to treasure up to yourselves wrath against the day of wrath but nothing wherewithal to rebuild or help forward the rebuilding of ruinated Hospitals Break off your sins by repentance and your iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor as Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar All the good you do sincerely will be your own another day Therefore said Paul Phil. 4.17 I desire fruit that may abound to your account The same Apostle speaking of the Churches of Macedonia saith That their deep poverty had abounded to the riches of their liberality 2 Cor. 8.2 and Shall not your riches amount to as much as did their poverty Christ became poor to make u●rich and Shall we think much to be somewhat lesse rich that we may relieve those that are extreamly poor Look not to receive that joyfull Sentence from Christ Come ye blessed c. unlesse he may say of you For you saw me hungry and fed me naked and clothed me meaning his Members which are himself mystically so the Church is called Christ Let not the ashes of sometimes greatly usefull Hospitals cry to Heaven against your want of bowels He that hath this worlds goods and shutteth up his bowels against those that are in want How dwelleth the love of God in him The worse uses that any have formerly put their money to the greater obligation lies upon them to put it to good uses as they are called for time to come Not onely the ill getting of money calls for extraordinary charity which made Zacch●us say The one half of my Estate I give to the poor but also our having ill spent it in times past for it is with money as with time by how much the worse we spent it formerly by so much the better we should spend it for the future Princes have laid these foundations and will it not be an honour for Subjects to build upon them your work may possibly stand hundreds of years as some of those houses yet in being have done whereas theirs is fallen to the ground In a word next unto the honor of building a Temple for Gods house as Solomon did and David was ambitious to have done is that of building a house for Gods Temples and such are all true believers how poor and mean soever MEDITATION XI Upon the Burning of Publick Halls If any think those Halls were built meerly for feasting and entertainment or at the most but for pompe they are much deceived Certainly they were both intended and improved to higher and better uses All great Bodies and Societies of men must needs for order sake be divided and subdivided So Armies are divided into several Regiments Regiments into several Troopes or Companies so Navies divide themselves into several Squadrons Upon the same accompt the Citizens of London being a great Body of Traders and those of severall Professions it was but necessary they should be parcelled into several Companies having each of them their peculiar Officers which made them as it were an entire body by themselves fitted with head and members of all sorts the respective Masters being as it were the head the subordinate Officers the Essential parts and the ordinary members the integral Both decency and conveniency required there should be a handsome place for each of those Societies to meet in which was as it were a little Parliament House belonging to them in which the Representatives of each Company I mean their Officers did meet together to consult and Parley what might be for the good of the whole Here the grievances of each Society falling within their cognizance where complained of and redressed Here they advised and agreed together what to do and what to petition their Superiors for that might be for the benefit of their respective trades and Professions how they might prevent encroachments and abuses how they might maintain their priviledges how they might take all advantages for the best improvement of their respective Trades In all of these a common stock was kept on foot and carefully lookt after for divers needful purposes as namely for the relief of such of their own Society as should fall to decay for helping young beginners who had little to set up with and might there borrow upon good security for improving the Estates of Widowes as in the Book-sellers Company and for many other good purposes one of which Schollars ought never to forget and that is for encouraging young Students by liberall exhibitions wherewith to increase their maintainance at the University There were in severall Halls though not in each of them Stocks going for all these purposes and it is like for many more which may sufficiently evidence that they were places of great use which I mention to shew what cause we have to bewail the losse of them To say they were most of them noble Structures even those that did belong to the meaner Trades as who should say

vindicate the honour of particular Nations How hard is it for Nations to recede from the very punctillio's of their honour Now if God hath disgraced us and weakned our reputation as certainly he hath done by taking away the great City surely it should be for a Lamentation If our Father hath spit in our face as Moses said to Mariam ought we not to be ashamed seven dayes yea seven years we had need for such a spitting of fire in our face as hath befallen us Jeremy puts it amongst his Lamentations Lam. 1.6 From the Daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed We proceed Whose heart would it not grieve to think what precious fuel went to feed that pernicious fire Goodly Houses noble Halls belonging to several Companies ancient and worthy Hospitals affording relief to multitudes of poor and distressed people magnificent Churches built and some of them but lately repaired at a very great charge places of Judicature and for the honourable reception of Magistrates as Guild-hall and others Common places as I may call them of Trade and Tradesmen such as Blackwell-hall and the Royal Exchange the onely sanctuary that I hear of to it 's own Founder useful and eminent Schools as Pauls and others one famous receptacle of Divines by the name of Zion Colledge another for Civilians one Cathedral for largeness and stateliness of building exceeding all that I have before mentioned All these are well known to have been fuel to that fire yea all these were but a part of it's fuel There were other things which though they did not as to bulk equalize those I have mentioned yet in worth and value did far exceed them In some places you might have seen rich wines it may be Sack and Hippocras burning for no bodies use elswhere costly Oils swimming about the streets and afterwards converted into flames Was not the fire fed in some places with rich housholdstuffe and dear furniture in others with shop-goods and wares of great value as fine clothes and such like which their owners wanted opportunity to send away How many precious druggs and odoriferous spices went up in those flames as so much incense How many wholsome Medicines and powerfull Antidotes and great Cordials such as Mithridate Treacle Spirituous Liquors Bezoardick Powders Confection of Alchermies Chymical Oils and Spirits were in great quantities consumed by that fire as if they had been good for nothing or as if nothing had been too good for it And above all other losses What Scholler that is so indeed can with drie eyes mention the inestimable losse of books that was sustained by that mercilesse fire to the undoing of many Booksellers in one sence and of many more Schollers in another How many learned and usefull Authors in several Languages Arts and Sciences Divines both Pol●mical and Practical Fathers Schoolmen Phylicians Phylosophers Lawyers Historians Antiquaries Mathematicians and others besides many precious manuscripts till then preserved like so many leaves of the Sybils were then burnt to ashes as if our enemies the Papists had been then disarming us of some of our best weapons wherewith we should defend our selves against them Yea the very Sword of the Spirit which ●s the word of God the Bible it 's self as to many hundred Copies of it was then taken from us and burnt as if it had been a piece of heresie or had fallen into Popish hands who brook it not in our genuine translations And this were more to be lamented than all the rest if that sacred book that book of books might not more easily be reprinted than many others that are of greater volume and of which there are but few Copies extant But as for our Biblia Polyglotta midwived into the world at a vast charge and by the unspeakable industry of many learned and famous men to the great renown of themselves and of this Nation how many of them were consumed as if they had been so much waste paper and who is able to repair the losse These things as I said before were the fuel that fed the flames of London Quis talia fando Temperet a lachrymis Who can think of such things as these and not draw waters and poure out before the Lord as the Israelites did at Mizpah To have made or fed as many bonefires as are usuall upon great solemnities with meer Musk and Ambergrease if so much could have been had had not been so great a charge and losse as were all those materials which went to foment the dismall fire of London Those flames were higher fed all things considered than Cleopatra was when as it is storied of her she drank dissolved Pearls How angry was the Almighty with us when he would rather fling all this treasure into the fire than suffer us to enjoy it How unworthy did he proclaim us when in fact he said better the fire should have it than we But where did all this losse light Was it upon LONDON only Were few or none sufferers but the Inhabitants of that City Yea doubtless it was a terrible blow to the whole Nation or to the greatest part of it Who had any considerable interest in England and none in London more or lesse As all Rivers run into the Sea and all the lines of a Circumference meet in one Center so did the interest of most considerable Englishmen in London Who had not some share in that great ship as I may call it which is now blown up They that had no immediate and personall interest in London Had they not Relations Brothers or Sisters yea it may be Sons or Daughters or if not so Kindred more remote that were great sufferers by this fire and whose losses they should lay to heart Nero is said to have wished that Rome had had but one Neck that he might cut it off at a blow In reference to England London was next to that one Neck and hath not this fire cut it off at one blow His Majesty hath told us that his losse in the City was greater than any other mans and what good Subject would not bewail that But surely Reader it is thy losse if thou art an English Protestant as truely though not as much as his The losse was Catholick that is universall in the consequences as well as Roman Catholick in the Causes of it But is this all that can be said of the losse of London Surely no Read but the Book of Lamentations and you will find many more expressions applicable to the Case of London besides those which I have taken notice of already Lam. 1.4 There saith the Prophet The wayes of Sion mourn because none come to the Solemn feasts her gates are desolate All these their calamities are come upon us at once Our Gates are laid waste our selemn Assemblies both Religious and Civil in most places of that which was called London are unavoidably at an end and if our wayes do not mourn that is if they have not a sad

LIV. Upon the burning down of Zion Colledge LOndon was an Epitome of England if not also of the whole World In it was something of almost every thing and amongst the rest Colledges erected or designed for most kinds and parts of good Learning only two of which I shall now instance in viz. Gresham and Zion-Colledges The former which was to be for Divinity and other Sciences yet standing the latter which was intended only for Divines and for Theology now lying in the dust Doubtless Learning is a great advantage and stay to Religion as the Apostle himself intimateth when he speaks of some who being ignorant and unlearned do wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction and if men as much as in them is would root Religion out of the world they could use no means more effectual than that which Julian applied himself to viz. the extinguishing of all good literature This came to mind when I remembred that Colledge to be yet standing where Divinity and other Sciences dwell together though I am far from assigning that as the reason why that Colledge rather than the other did escape the Fire But my work is to treat of those places that did not escape and now particularly of Zion-Colledge The place where that Colledge stood from the first time that I can receive any account of it was alwayes a seat of Charity first in the Oare as I may call it and afterwards refined By Charity in the Ore I mean that which was popish and superstitions For the first Foundation that I read of in that place was a Nunnery After that it was converted to an Hospital in the year 1332. for the relief of one hundred blind men and was called the Priory or Hospital of Saint Mary the Virgin founded by William Elsing the which VVilliam became the first Prior there In the same place where that Priory was situated was since erected the Colledge I am speaking of for the Clergy of London and Liberties thereof and for the sustentation of twenty poor people ten men and ten women An exemplary and well-contrived piece of Bounty and Charity was the founding of that Colledge and the Alms-houses thereunto belonging Which I must needs speak in praise of those it's worthy Founders whose Names should alwayes live though their Works be now demolished Of the Charity that built that Colledge and the Library belonging to it I can say no less than that i● was a Liberal a Living an Extensive an Humble and a Handsome respectful Charity and in all those respects greatly Exemplary That it was Liberal appeareth by the quality of those two Divines that were the Founders of it one of the Colledge its self viz. Doctor Thomas VVhite the other of the Library viz. Master John Sim●son All the prefe●●ent that I can find either of these Gentlemen had in and from the Church was that the former was Vicar of Saint Dunstans in the West and on● of the Canons residentiary of Saint Paul's Church London and the other viz. Mr. John Sim●s●● was onely Re●●or of Saint Olaves Hart-street London Some men do a great deal of good with a little the Church doth little for them and yet they do much for it others do but a little good with a great deal Many whose Titles and Ecclesiastical Revenues have swelled ten times higher than either of theirs did never were half so much Benefactors to the Church and world as was the least of them but have hoorded up their money as if they meant when they left the world to take it with them And as their Charity was liberal which I may call intensive so was it no lesse extensive Charity like seed should not all be sown in one surrow but scattered some here some there as the Scripture speaking of a good man saith He hath dispersed he hath given to the poor and his righteousness remaineth I say their Charity was extensive because first it did reach and extend to soul and body both yea I might have said in the Apostles phrase Soul Body and Spirit There was provision made for the bodies of so many poor there were helps 〈◊〉 Learning whereby to accommodate the mind● and souls of such as were lovers of it and lastly there was Religion or rather helps to Religion by the promoting of Divinity for the spirits of men by which I mean the sublimet faculties of men which are more especially the 〈◊〉 and subjects of Religion There was Charity shewed to both Sexes so much to one as to anothers whereas some Sensuallists have no charity but for that Sex which is not their own Pharaoh-like who took care to save the females though he gave charge to drown the males as if they had been so many Mice And certain Humorists on the other hand pretend to set their whole love upon their own Sex professing themselves to be Misogynists or haters of Women which whether in pretence or in reality is another sinful extreme Again That Colledge was kind and Charitable both to the Learned and Unlearned as Paul saith that he was a Doctor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians both to the wise and to the foolish Whereas some meer Schollars themselves have no love for any but Learned men and others again have a kind of Antipathy to Schollars as such Lastly The extensiveness of the Charity that gave that Colledge appeareth in that it was a benefit both to Rich and Poor for as to some things those that are Rich may need help as truly as those that are poor Thither might Persons of Quality whose Libraries and usual Divellings were in the Country repair and be furnished with those Books they could not meet with elsewhere An extensive Charity ought much to be imi●ated because the Scripture saith Do good to all men And one great fault of this Age is That the Charity of men like their respects is consined in some only to Pauls in others to Cephas in others to Apollos as I may allude but the World will never be right till men have learnt to love all good People as such On Mr. Simpsons part who founded the Library it was as some call it a Living-Charity for he built it in his life-time at his own proper cost and charges whereas some others have in effect said That their Mony should go to good uses when they had nothing else to do with it then and not till then yea possibly repented of that too ere they died I have moreover called it an hurable-Charity a Charity that did not vaunt it self because the aforesaid Founder of the Library did not scorn to build upon another mans Foundation or to spend himself in adding to another mans Work who it was to be expected would bear the name of the Principal Founder Happy is he that can seek the good of others and not seek his own honour at the same time that so others be benefited doth not much care though himself be over lookt Lastly I said It