. Joseph Alleine: his companions & times; a memorial of "Black Bartholomew," 1662. e to speak forth the goodness and the grace of God,do you help us in our praises. Love the Lord the better,praise Him the more, and what is wanting in us, let it bemade good by you. O that the praises of God maysound abroad in the country by our means, and for oursakes. Chapter , pet Pursuing:. Oh what a Iwelie life, what he a<venlie power,What spreading virtue, what a sparkling fire;How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower,Dost thou within this dying flesh inspire SIR JOHN DAVIES. OME time before
. Joseph Alleine: his companions & times; a memorial of "Black Bartholomew," 1662. e to speak forth the goodness and the grace of God,do you help us in our praises. Love the Lord the better,praise Him the more, and what is wanting in us, let it bemade good by you. O that the praises of God maysound abroad in the country by our means, and for oursakes. Chapter , pet Pursuing:. Oh what a Iwelie life, what he a<venlie power,What spreading virtue, what a sparkling fire;How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower,Dost thou within this dying flesh inspire SIR JOHN DAVIES. OME time before the prisoners leftIlchester, they heard of the great fire inLondon, in which more than thirteenthousand houses were consumed. Thespirit of the times was curiously shown, day by day,in the various popular accounts and speculationsthat came drifting in to them along with the persons thought that the disaster was the workof the Romanists ; others thought that surely theBaptists had set the houses on fire; indeed, this chargehad actually been reported in a letter from the. 344 FAINT, YET PURSUING. Court; how, then, could it be doubted !* Opinionsin the outside world were equally conflicting as to theparticular lesson which this judgment was intendedto teach the nation. Some said that it marked thedispleasure of Heaven at the leniency shown bythe church to Nonconformists ;f others declared itto be the terrible voice of God to the chiefs inChurch and State, crying, cf Let my people go,that they may serve me ; and if ye will not, behold,thus and thus I will do unto you. J Our friendsprobably inclined to the latter belief, but to theirhonour, their deep concern took a practical ratherthan a speculative form. Affliction had madethem know cc the heart of a stranger, and taughtthem to sympathise with the citizens who, shelter-less and in despair, were wandering over the fieldsin sight of the waste where their homes had longed to help them, but what could they * Attempt
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