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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

of our prosperity that it will never be removed But we are often mistaken so was Asaph when he did thus expostulate Psa 77.7 Hath the Lord forgotten to be gracious hath be in anger shut up his tender mercy will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more is his mercy clean gone for ever and adds v. 10. I said this is my infirmity v. 14. Thou art the God that doest wonders And v. 19. Thy way is in the Sea and thy footsteps are not known Hear the moans of Sion and the answer given by God thereunto Isa 49.14 But Sion saith the Lord hath forsaken me my Lord hath forgotten me Can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the Son of her ●omb Yea they may forget yet will not I forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me ver 15 16. Little did the Israelites think when their task of brick was doubled that deliverance was at hand which sense became a Proverb Cum duplicantur lateres venit Moses but so it was but the Text saith The children of Israel hearkened not to Moses viz. prophecying of deliverance for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage Exod. 6.9 Little did Abraham think that Isaac should be spared though he came so near unto being sacrificed as that he was laid upon the Altar whence sprung that consolatory saying Jehovah-jireh Gen. 22.14 In the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen I shall not extenuate the badness of our present circumstances it is too too evident that we look like a Land meeted out for destruction the face of things at this day is as it were facies Hippocratica as Physitians call it that is we look like death Never was poor Nation more convulst and pulled this way and that way backwards and forwards and other while made or endeavoured to be made more stiff and inflexible by a painful Tetanus as they call that kind of Convulsion that braceth the body so straight it can stir no way It must be confessed these are ill Symptoms but no grounds of despair possibly it is now a critical time with England and the Crises of diseases are often attended with horrid Symptoms even when Nature gets the upper hand at last Are we now in any more danger to be destroyed by our divisions then we were in 65. to be devoured by Plague but thence hath God delivered us He that hath said unto the Sword of War with other Nations Put up thyself into thy Scabbard rest and be still can say the same to the Sword of home divisions which are a kind of intestine war Surely England hath been in a worse condition then now it is and yet saved from thence First in the Marian daies when the weapons of warfare against the true Religion were no other then Fire and Faggot when the Scarlet Whore made her self drunk with the blood of Saints and Martyrs were not those daies sh●rtned for the Elects sake Matth. 13.20 Afterwards in 88. when the Spanish Fleet called the Invincible Armado came against England in how desperate a case did it seem to be but how soon did that black Cloud blow over Then succeeded the hellish Powder Plot in the next Kings Reign which had it taken effect had rooted the Protestant Interest out of England as in the twinkling of an eye or whilst a small Paper could be burned but that also came to nothing that snare was broken and this poor Land delivered Who doubts whether Popish Archers have not shot at us many times since then and yet our Bow abideth in strength thorough the mighty God of Jacob O England so often saved by the Lord why shouldst thou despair of any more deliverances Is it because thy sins are so many and great call to mind what God saith Ezek. 36.33 In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will cause you to dwell in the Cities and the wasts shall be builded v. 35. And they shall say This Land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden and the desolate and ruined Cities are become fenced and inhabited Look back to v. 32. Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be ashamed and confounded for your own wayes O house of Israel See also v. 22 23 29 36 38. of the same Chapter Or is it because the Lord seemeth for a time to have forsaken thee having given thee up to flames that thou O London despairest of ever seeing good daies again I see not why thou shouldst cast away the Anchor of thy hope for all that what if thou shouldst cast it upon that Text and others of like import Psa 60.9 10. Who will bring me into the strong City wilt not thou O God which hadst cast us off And Lam. 3.31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies Who seeth not the inference plain from such Texts as those that God may cast off a people for a time and yet not cast them off for ever Is it from a fear of being burnt again that you have no heart to build that fear in all likelihood ariseth from a mistrust you have that the former burning came to pass by Treachery if so be of good chear God will discover it in due time it cannot be alwayes hid and when that secret if it be yet a secret shall be brought to light when the true Incendiaries shall once be known London is like to be more secured from fire then ever it was and that fire which consumed the old City will be as a wall of fire that is a defence about the new If the great divisions discontents and heart-burnings that are now in England be alledged as they have been as a main discouragement of the rebuilding of London I would take leave to say I hope one day to see an end of those things Surely there will come a time when passion and fury will hold their peace and give way to reason and conscience to interpose and when ever that time shall come such Rules and Principles as I would now suggest will be hearkened to and cannot but offer themselves being so obvious as they are and whensoever they shall take place we may expect to see England a quiet habitation and all good people therein of one heart though not of one mind The first principle which I would hope will be received in time is this That every man pretending conscience constraining him to what he doth or restraining him from what he refuseth to do if generally trusted and thought worthy to be believed in other cases ought to be trusted and believed in that also and not to be changed with pride prejudice interest faction as the true reasons of those actions for which he pretendeth conscience yea it may be exposeth

East-wind and made it dry Land that the Israelites might pass over Exod. 14.21 And probable it is that the turning of the Wind brought the Sea back again upon the Egyptians And I am much deceived if the Wind and Weather which were much against us in the time of the Fire have not been as much with us and for us since that I mean in reference to the warmth and openness of the Weather which are much what the effects of Winds suitable thereunto Job 37.9 Cold cometh out of the North And v. 17. How thy garments are warm when he quiateth the earth by the South-wind Sith then this last Winter God hath made the Heavens to hear the Ruines and the Ruines to hear the Artificers and the Artificers to hear the cryes of the poor dejected Citizens longing to be restored you know to what I allude why should we dispair of another London at Land more then heretofore at Sea where we have known two already When I consider how speedily many difficult cases and perplext controversies relating to Builders and Proprietors have been brought to an end either by the clearness of the Law made for that purpose or prudence of the Judges or extraordinary peaceableness of the parties concerned or by means of all three together I cannot but look upon it as a good presage that this poor City shall be built again For this methinks is a kind of sudden and unexpected clearing and taking away of that Rubbish which did most of all threaten to obstruct the buildings for who that hath observed how long some one controversie about the title of Houses or Lands being tryed after the usual way and not as in the Act for building is provided doth ordinarily depend some a longer time then I hope the whole City will take up in rebuilding would not have thought that Law-suits and Impleadings one of another would have been so endless that the City the building whereof must needs wait upon the determination of such matters would never have had a beginning But blessed be God it is evident to us by some hundreds of houses already built and many more Foundations laid that an incredible number of Titles are already determined even so many as might have taken up a whole Age in an ordinary course of Law And hence also may we feed our selves with hope that the like dispatch will be made in and about those Causes which are yet unheard or more if more can be sith by variety of Precedents and parallel cases the work of determination will be easier every day then other This good harmony gives me great hope and may do the like to others for why may not a City rise up by Unity and agreement as well as fall by division why may not the former be as powerful to lift up even from the dust as the latter is to throw it down If God please to grant the people of England as good and easie an accord in all other matters I shall yet hope all will be well I see a diligent hand at work for and towards the rebuilding of the City and that increaseth my hope that it will be done When God forsook London for a time and gave it up to the flames we may remember that men forsook it also I mean a great part of its Inhabitants made it their only care and business to secure their goods but did in effect say let the City go But now I find that Citizens are as active and officious in restoring as ever any of them for all were not so did seem remiss and careless in preserving of it methinks every body is huge intent upon it and what his hand findeth to do in it doth it with all his might and that in despite of all both real and supposed discouragements I know not the man whom in this case I can call a Sluggard and wish him without wronging him to go to the Ant and learn his ways all are as busie as so many Ants hastning to and from their several Mole-hills not a few were so intent upon it that when materials could scarce be had for love or money when Coals were three or four pound a Chaldron when Bricks and Timber bore an excessive rate all would not beat them off from building as if they had been as fond of houses within the Walls of London as ever Rachel was of children who cryed out Give me children or I die You might see by the respects which Citizens paid and do yet pay to the dust and ruines of London how they hanker after it not for what it is but for what they hope it shall be Do not as many as had wont to be concerned in those affairs visit the Ruines yearly call every Parish by its former name observe its bounds chuse Officers upon the very place chuse Aldermen and their Deputies for every Ward that is unsupplyed nominate Church-wardens Constables c. as if it might be said of London as was said of Lazarus that he was not dead but slept and all thorough the desire they have it might be raised again for they do know it is more then asleep yea no less then dead and buried A careless unactive heartless posture was that in which London was destroyed and now I see the quite contrary to that it makes me hope it is about to be restored wherewithall did the Psalmist perswade himself That the time to favour Sion yea the set time was come Psa 102.13 The reason he gives us is For thy people take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof v. 14. If that were a good argument that God would arise and have mercy upon Sion as doubtless it was else the Psalmist would not have used it we have said and evinced the same thing as concerning London viz. such an affection towards it as the people of God in those daies had towards their desolate Jerusalem Far be it from me to think that so much love care and pains so many heads and hands and hearts as are set at work about our City with earnest prayers for the restauration of it will all produce nothing What though God had a sufficient controversie against the old City as for which to suffer it to be burnt may it not be said that possibly he hath not the same against another City though standing or intended to stand in the same place so that notwithstanding his permitting the former to be burnt he may permit another to be built in the room of it Though such things were done to the dry Tree to which I may compare the old City must the like or something as bad be done to the green Christ argues from the green Tree to the dry with a quanto magis What then shall be done to the dry but not vice versâ God destroyed the Old World but did he not nevertheless make a new one and that in the same place where the old one stood and peopled it out