LEX IGNEA: 



OR, 



THE SCHOOL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 



A SERMON 



PREACHED BEFORE THE KING, OCT. IOtH, 1666, AT 

 THE SOLEMN FAST APPOINTED FOR THE LATE 



FIRE IN LONDON. 



— IVhen thy Judgments are in the Earth, the Inhabitants of the 



World xnil learn Righteousness. — Isaiah xxvi. ver. 9. 



This chapter with the two next before, and that 

 which follows, are all four parts of the same pro- 

 phetic sermon, (as appears by those words so 

 often repeated in them, In that day, fixing and 

 determining all to the same epoch and period of 

 time,) belong all to the same subject matter, sc. 

 the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem, whether 

 by the Babylonians, or Romans, or both. So 

 that the earth (or as we may rather translate, the 

 land, or the country) wasted, and utterly spoiled 

 and turned upside down, Chap. xxiv. ver. 1 and 3, 

 is doubtless the land of Jewry : and the world 

 that languisheth, and fadeth away, ver. 4. of that 

 chapter, not much wider; that, and the neigh- 

 bouring regions, with whom the Jews had com- 



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