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A42547 God's soveraignty displayed from Job 9. 12. : Behold he taketh away, who can hinder him? &c., or, A discourse shewing, that God doth, and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth, as to the matter what, the place where, the time when, the means and manner how, and the reasons thereof : with an application of the whole, to the distressed citizens of London, whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the fire : an excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal, the ends that God aims at in it, with directions how to behave themselves under their losses / by William Gearing ... Gearing, William.; Gearing, William. No abiding city in a perishing world. 1667 (1667) Wing G435A; ESTC R18630 101,655 265

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GOD'S SOVERAIGNTY DISPLAYED From Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him c. OR A discourse shewing that God doth and may take away from his creatures what hee pleaseth as to the matter what the place where the time when the means and manner how and the reasons thereof With an Application of the whole to the distressed Citizens of London whose houses and goods were lately consumed by the FIRE An excitation of them to look to the procuring causes of this fiery tryal the ends that God aims at in it with directions how to behave themselves under their losses By William Gearing Minister of the Word LONDON printed by R. I. for Thomas Parkhurst at the Golden Bible on London Bridge 1667. TO THE Right VVorshipfull Sr. John Pelham of Laughton Sr. John Fagge of Wiston in the County of Sussex Baronets TO Herbert Morley of Glyne in the same County to John Gell of Hopton in the County of Darby and to Gervaise Pigot of Thrumpton in the County of Nottingham Esquires FRom that dreadful fire that consumed a great part of the City of London about the beginning of September last I may take occasion to shew that the greatest chances alterations and most notable changes have commonly hapned in the month of September Bodinus hath collected many remarkable instances to this purpose Great earth-quakes wherewith oftentimes great Cities and whole Countries have been destroyed have happened in the month of September Such was that Earth-quake at Constantinople wherein thirteen thousand men were lost in the year 1509 in the month of September In the same month of September wherein the battel was fought at Actium ten thousand men perished in the Land of Palestine with an Earthquake The Victory of Augustus also against Antonius in the battel of Actium was by him obtained on the second of September by which victory the Empire both of the East and West fell into the power of Augustus himself alone The third day of the same month the Macedonian Empire which had so long flourished was by Paulus Aemilius changed from a great Kingdom into divers popular Estates the King Persius being by him overcome and taken prisoner Sultan Soliman on the like day took Buda the chief City of Hungaria with the greatest part of that Kingdome The same day and month Rhoderick King of Spain was by the Moors overcome and driven out of his Kingdom which wrought a strange alteration in the state of that Monarchy On the same day of the month revolving Lewis the twelfth the French King took the City of Milan with Lewis Sphortia Duke thereof whom he deprived of his Estate On the like day the Emperour Charles the fifth passed over into Affrica and invaded the Kingdome of Algiers On the same third day of September in the year 1658. dyed O. Cromwel on that very day of the month wherein hee had gotten two notable Victories the one at Dunbar in Scotland 1650. the other at Worcester Anno 1651. On the fourth day of September dyed Sultan Solyman before Sigeth which being one of the strongest holds of Christendome was by the Turks taken the seventh day after the City of Jerusalem was taken about this time of the month of September by the Romans as Xiphilinus declareth On the ninth day of September Alexander the Great at Arbela overthrew Darius King of Persia with his Army of four hundred thousand men and so joyned the Kingdome of Persia unto his own On the same day in the year 1544. James King of Scots was by the Englishmen slain and his Army overthrown On the tenth of September John Duke of Burgundy was slain by the commandment of Charles the seventh whence arose great Wars throughout all France On the like day and month was Peter Louys the Tyrant of Placenzza slain by the Conspiratours On the eleventh of September the Paleology the Greek Emperors tooke the Imperial City of Constantinople and drave out thence the Earls of Flanders who had there possessed the Empire 560 years On the fourteenth day of September the Switzers were with a great slaughter overthrown by the French in the Expedition of Merignan which self-same day also the Turk's great Army besieged Vienna the Metropolitical City of Austria On the seventeenth day the French Army was overthrown at Poictiers and King John himself taken Prisoner by the English On the same day of the month A. D. 1575 the Christian Fleet with a great slaughter overthrew the Turk's great Fleet in the battel of Lepanto On the same day of the same month Charles the ninth King of France was by his Subjects assailed near unto Meaux where by speedy flight and the help of the Switzers hee hardly with life escaped the hands of the Conspiratours A. D. 1567. On the which self-same day month and year Henry King of Sweden was by his rebellious Subjects dispoiled of his Estate and cast into Prison On the eighteenth day of September Bulloign was surrendred to the English Vpon the like day of the month Bajazet at Nicopolis overthrew a great Army of the Christians of three hundred thousand men And on the same day Saladine took the City of Jerusalem on which Pompey had before taken it On the twentieth day of September was that sharpe sight at Newbury in that late unhappy War in England A. D. 1643. On the four and twentieth day of September Constantine the great in a bloody battel overcame Maxentius the Emperour A. D. 333. and so became a great Monarch which wrought a notable change almost throughout the whole World from thenceforth he commanded the year to bee begun in September and to the Greek Feasts unto that day is added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this month Pope Boniface 8th A. D. 1303. was taken Prisoner and deprived of his Papal dignity On the third day of the same month A. D. 1556. such a Tempest of rain and Thunder hapned at Lucern as that a greater as was reported was never seen On which self-same month day the Town-Hall of Maidenburg in Germany with the Citizens dancing therein were altogether with lightning consumed About the beginning of this month A. D. 465. such an horrible fire brake forth in Constantinople by the water-side which raged with that fury for four daies together that it consumed the greatest part of the City and such was the force thereof that as Evagrius saith the strongest Houses were but like so much dried stubble before it And how hath the Lord sent a dreadful Fire upon London and it hath consumed the lofty buildings and Palaces thereof in September last We read also that many of the greatest Princes and Monarchs of the world to have dyed in this very month of September Viz. Augustus Tiberius Vespasian Titus Domitian Aurelianus Theodosius the great Valentinian Gratian Basilius Constantine the fifth Leo the 4th Rodolph Frederick the 4th Charles the 5th all Roman or Greek Emperors And of the French Kings Pepin Lewis the younger Philip the 3d.