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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45552	Lamentation, mourning, and woe sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish-church of St. Martin in the Fields, on the 9th day of September : being the next Lords-day after the dismal fire in the city of London / by Nath. Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1666 (1666)	Wing H728; ESTC R281	20,070	40

Lamentation Mourning and Woe Sighed forth in a SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church of St. MARTIN in the FIELDS On the 9 th day of September Being the next LORDS-DAY AFTER THE Dismal Fire IN THE CITY of LONDON By Nath. Hardy D. D. D. R. Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty and Vicar of the said Parish-Church Lam. 1. 12. Is it nothing to you all you that pass by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for William Grantham at the Sign of the Black Bear in Westminster-Hall 1666. To the Right Worshipful Sir THOMAS ADAMS Knight and Baronet SIR I First preached and have now published this Discourse as a Testimony of my sorrow for Londons Ruines If the phrase and composure be as I am conscious they are very defective my Apology is That it was a time of Distraction besides broken Language is the best Rhetorick upon a mournful occasion And considering those manifold Relations and Obligations I have to that once illustrious City it will not I hope be looked upon as a presumption that I have thus publickly expressed my sorrow for that cloud of smoke which hath covered her or rather that flame of fire which hath laid her honour in the dust London was the place of my Birth Baptism Education and excepting those years which I lived in the University of Oxford in and about the City hath been the place of my abode and habitation to this day It is now full Twenty and seven years since I entered into Holy Orders Eighteen whereof I exercised my Ministerial Function in that one Parish Church of St. Dyonis which together with many more proh dolor is now laid waste And though I must confess my self highly obliged as in special to many persons of Honour and Quality so in general to all sorts of Inhabitants in this Parish where by Gods Providence I now am and have according to my slender ability officiated well nigh Six years whose merciful preservation in this late imminent danger I heartily congratulate and praise God for Yet I cannot but acknowledge those many and great kindnesses which in those years I received and that not only though chiefly from that particular Parish but several other Citizens as well of the upper as the lower sort So that though I wanted not some Enemies I bless God I found many Friends with whom if I should not affectionately sympathize in this their Calamity I should justly incur the odious brand of ungrateful and obdurate Nay if I forget thee O London let my right hand forget her cunning if I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth Being upon these considerations honoured Sir resolved as to the publication of the Sermon I know not to whom more sutably than your self I should make the Dedication and that both in reference to my self in particular and the City in general Among my numerous acquaintance in the City I have great reason to look upon you as a singular Friend as well as a prime Parishioner in that place where I lived so long Nor must I forget to own not only that liberal bounty those free entertainments but those sage advices and forward encouragements which I received from you in the late perilous times when it was a Crime to own a Prelatical Clergy-man Among the Inhabitants of the City you are the principal Mourner The Kingdom calls the City her Mother and the City calls you her Father as being the eldest among the Aldermen not only in respect of years but office none now surviving who before you had the honour to have the Sword carried before them And who should be chief Mourner at the Daughters Funeral but her Father And though I easily believe your particular losses are great yet I dare say such is your compassion That you are much more affected with the publick misery than your own damage and such your devotion that you are most afflicted with those iniquities which have procured this misery Upon this account I am confident you often turn aside in your meditations to see this sad fight and probably have prevented me in what I cannot but take notice of how within the revolution of less than seven years we have lived to see a most joyful and a most doleful sight The one of the Sun breaking forth the other of the Fire breaking out That of the King in his beauty this of the City in its ashes That a representation of Heaven and this of Hell That in the Spring of the year 1660. this in the Autumn of the year 1666. It cannot be imagined with what gladness of heart all Loyal Subjects beheld their Native lawful King after a Twelve years tedious Exile return to his Throne and not in an hostile but amicable manner pass through His chief City to His Royal Palace welcomed with the multiplied shouts and acclamations of all sorts Nor can it be expressed with what sadness of heart all good people beheld the flaming Fire as it were a Conqueror riding upon the wings of the wind from street to street with a triumphant rage through that great City eating up her Habitations casting down her goodly Structures to the earth and not ceasing till He that said to it Go said also to it Stay Had the sight of that wonderful and merciful Restauration quickned us as it ought to sutable Returns of Gratitude and Obedience we probably had never beheld this dreadful and woful desolation And since the former could not allure us to our Duty I would to God this latter may yet at length affright us from our sins Then I should comfortably hope what I doubt not we all earnestly desire a resurrection of this City out of her Rubbish to a more glorious estate than before Which worthy Sir that if it be Gods blessed Will your Age may be prolonged to see and thereby prevent the bringing of your grey hairs with sorrow to the grave and however that whensoever you go hence the blessings of Heaven may rest upon the heads of your Posterity And as you have been a vigilant diligent prudent and faithful Senator in this Terrestrial City so you may after a long course finished on earth be a Triumphant Citizen and have an everlasting habitation in that heavenly City of the living God where the Moth frets not the Rust eats not the Fire consumeth not is the uncessant prayer of Sir Your most affectionate Friend Nath Hardy Lamentation Mourning and Woe St. Luke Cap. 19. ver 41. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it I Have no sooner read the Text but I suppose you all reflect upon the doleful occasion of handling it How forcible are right words saith Job and much more when they are sutable The words of the wife saith Solomon are as nails and as