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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

Pretensions and Competitions even from those places which had themselves worn the Crown of Dignity whilst and so long as London was as several times it hath been and now partly is in the dust And now have I undeniably proved if I mistake not that these three Nations are highly concerned in the Restauration of London But now the question will be whether all the Protestant part of the world be so likewise as hath been affirmed tell me then whether England when it is its self be not able to yield a countenance and protection to Protestants all the world over to be a kind of covering upon all their glory If I am not deceived it hath done so particularly in the daies of Queen Elizabeth and may do so again As is the House of Austria to the Papists viz. their great prop and pillar so England hath been is or may be to the Protestants If then the strength and bulwark of Protestants be England and that the strength of England as hath been proved be London we may easily conclude by that sure Maxim Causa causae est causa causati that London is or may be the great bulwark and fortresse of the Protestant Interest and consequently that the whole Protestant World is concerned in the being and well-being of London This the great Zealots for Popery have known and do know too well who in order to the Propagation of that Religion have thought and do think nothing more requisite than that the City of London should be laid in ashes and continued there England being so mighty in shipping as it is at leastwise hath been or may be may be serviceable to them that professe the same Religion with its self not only near at hand but at the greatest distance and will be so if ever God shall cause the zeal and the prosperity of it both to revive together Let me add that if London flourish England cannot likely do much amisse and the most zealous part of the world as for the Protestant Religion will then prosper to the advantage of all others who make the same profession What is it then that not only England but Scotland and Ireland and not those Kingdoms only but any part of Christendome called Protestant can do or contribute towards the rebuilding of London whatsoever it be their own interest doth call upon them to do it with all their might If London rise not they are like to fall after it Shall we not hear of the kindnesses of Holland Sweden Denmark much more of all England and of Scotland and Ireland if they be able to do any thing towards poor desolate London let them be good to themselves in being good to it its interest is their own Help London now you know not how soon you may need its help and find it both a chearful and considerable helper in a time of need DISCOURSE XIV That the Protestant Religion and the principles thereof may contribute as much towards the building of Churches and Hospitals c. as ever Popery hath formerly done HOw many places are demolished by the Fire such as Churches and Hospitals which must be rebuilt if ever upon the accompt of Piety and Charity But where is that Piety and Charity to be found Methinks I hear the Papists vaunting themselves against Protestants extolling their Superstition above our true Religion and their Doctrine of Lies above the truth of ours telling us that they built most of those Churches and Hospitals which are now burnt down and must do it again if ever it be done as Peninnah when time was did upbraid Hannah Sam. 1.1 with her barrennesse so do they the principles of the Protestant Religion as if they could bring forth no good works As for their building those houses again there may be more reason for that than I shall presume to give but that if it must be our work our Religion will not as strongly invite us to do it as theirs would if they might build them for themselves that I utterly deny True it is if God stood in need that men should lie for him none were fitter to do him service than they whose Religion is full of lies and Legends but that he doth not but of such as say or report the Apostles of Christ to say Let us do evil that good may come of it the Scripture saith their damnation is just Rom. 3.8 We know full well their great Incentives to Charity and what falshoods they are telling the people that they must be saved by their good works that is by the merit of them that Christ hath merited to make their works meritorious talking much of opera tincta works died in the bloud of Christ how meritorious they are whereas theirs are rather died in the bloud of Christians and of holy Martyrs how men by their good deeds may satisfie the Justice of God for their evil ones and expiate their sins how by eminent acts of Charity they may hereafter deliver themselves and others out of Purgatory with many more such cunningly devised fables wherewith they pick mens pockets We know there is truth enough in the world or rather in the Word of God to make men as charitable and free in that sense as it is fit they should be We distrust not the efficacy of Divine Truths as they do nor think them Nouns Adjective that cannot stand without our lies as if they were so many Substantives added to them We therefore tell men as the truth is that by the works of the Law no flesh shall be justified Gal. 2.16 but withall we tell them that good works are causa sine quâ non or things without which there is no salvation for faith without works is dead as a body without a soul and that there can be no love to God where there is no charity towards men 1 John 3.17 Who so hath this worlds good and seeth his Brother have need and shutteth up his bowels from him how dwelleth the love of God in him He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how should he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.20 Therefore such as have wherewithall to shew mercy and to do good cannot be saved say we and this principle well considered were enough to make men charitable if we could add no more But then we say further that no one good work or deed of charity that is truly such shall go without a reward quoting and urging Mat. 10.42 with other Texts of like import Whosoever shall give a cup of cold water only to one in the name of a Disciple verily he shall not loose his reward Nay more than so we tell men that the reward of charity and of good works truly so called is no lesse than Eternal Life though not of merit but of grace We charge them that are rich in this world as Paul bid Timothy to do that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing

few succeeding dayes have been by those that preceded them made wiser then their predecessors as they say Dies diem docet it is like that occasion of strife and debate will be out of doors Tenthly It is like the world ere it be much elder will be sufficiently instructed that it is no point of prudence to tempt men even under hatches I mean to immoderation and fiercness by making it their true and only interest under their present circumstances to be fire and tow not to yield a hairs breadth They that will have all or nothing all that ever they did require or nothing that ever they will accept from those that are invincibly witheld by their consciences from doing all that is required must exspect just nothing at all For what will men say if we cannot do all that is imposed upon us we had as good do just nothing They on whom our dependance is under God as too many there are that cannot be without dependances noun adjectives like if we concede any thing will say we are luke-warm and spue us out of their mouths and as for those that are in power for the execution of those laws they will not abate us an ace of what they demand had we a hundred fold so much of gifts and graces as either we or they or any man alive hath What if the law hath left it in their breasts to dispense with the rigor of it as they see cause as by suspending their certificats c. if it be their pleasure generally not to do it thence indigent men and alass how many good men are such will be apt to infer since no greater earnings can be made of moderation than of eagerness on one hand and much greater of eagerness and inflexibleness then of moderation on the other hand since they cannot yeild to every thing they will yield to nothing and make an interest for some interest they must make for themselves and theirs or starve I say make an interest where they can Thus men become jealous that they must either ruin or be ruined and those wounds which by mutual condescention might have been healed by utmost opposition on both sides do as it were fester and become incurable Thus the rough answer of Rehoboam hearkning to his young Counsellors set the people all into a flame who had he taken the advice of his grave Senators would have found their words true who said 1 King 12.7 If thou wilt be a servant to this people this day and will speak good words to them then they will be thy servants for ever As this most certain principle that lenity and condescention will do more good then fierceness and exasperation shall by experience be made more evident I doubt not but our divisions and discontents will heal up by degrees and the warm sun will make us throw off that particollored coat which the boistrous wind made us to gird more close about us Eleventhly Another principle tending to allay our discontents is as obvious as any of the rest and therefore it is like will be taken notice of ere it be long viz. That something in point of prudence must and ought to be indulged to the temper and complexion of a nation and to those opinions and sentiments which people have long been possessed with so that they are become as it were a second nature to them Principles long riveted in the minds of men cannot easily be extirpated These arbitrary rites and usages which amongst some sorts of people might make Religion more venerable with others again that have suckt in an invincible dislike of them might make it very vile and contemptible Twelfthly To secure a Nation all that may be against fears and jealousies and to beget in them all possible confidence that nothing is intended but what is and shall be for their good that I say will lay an Axe to the root of discontent as much as any thing that can be done and that it will do so is so well known that it is scarce to be imagined that the wisdome of Governors will not prompt to it first or last Lastly That they who are of one and the same Religion for substance holding the same Foundation of Doctrinals both as to Faith and manners should not be suffered to vilifie and reproach each others different Mode and Dress in Religion and to render one another ridiculous and contemptible or to represent one another as if the Religion of each were vaine a meer mocking of God Hab. 3. As the cutting off a dogs neck offering of Swines blood or blessing of an Idol I say men and women who hold the same Fundamentals in Religion should not be suffered to scoff and deride one another as Elijah did the Priests of Baal they being Idolaters but he a Worshipper of the true God for hine illae lachrymae This is one as great cause of our heart-divisions and heart-burnings as any I know that we pour out contempt and scorn upon the Religion of each other though in the main it be the same with our own and that I must tell you is a most provoking thing for he that toucheth a mans Religion toucheth the apple of his eye and causeth him to cry out as Micah did Judg. 18.24 Ye have taken away my Gods and what have I more and what is this that ye say to me what aileth thee Religion is the great Bond of Love and men are apt to think they are not bound to love one another when they have learnt to deny and nullifie one anothers Religion Religion is also the Bond of Charity in point of judging now when that Bond is once to appearance dissolved by a conceit entertained as if each others Religion were vain then will there be no end of censuring and of exasperating one another thereby How ordinary is it for men to say of a foot because it is not the hand or of an ear because it is not the eye that therefore it is not of the body but is it therefore not of the body as the Apostle speaketh 1 Cor. 12.15 To deny an Episcopal man to be a Member of Christ his Mystical Body because he is not a Presbyterian and a Presbyterian to be such because he is not an Independent and an Independent to have any truth of Religion because he is neither of the two former when every one of the three is of a good and holy life and sound in the main is a point of high injustice and uncharitableness He whom thou censurest though his different mode and way in Religion may not be so good as thine may have more acceptance with God then thy self if more sincere and zealous and true to those main principles in which you both agree then thou thy self art Rom. 2.27 Shall not uncircumcision by nature if it fulfill the Law judge thee who by the Letter and Circumcision dost transgress the Law But nothing more ordinary in this Age then for men to