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tants of the world abroad warm themselves at 

 our fires, with kindly and holy heats ; while, in 

 the mean time, our repentings are not kindled, 

 nor our charity inflamed, and our devotion as cold 

 and frozen as ever? Shall our mountain (which 

 we said, in our jolly pride, should never be re- 

 moved) be fulminated, and thunder-struck, but 

 the blessed shower that follows, the instruction 

 that descends after, like the rain, slide off to the 

 vallies, to others that are round about us? Our 

 Lord *wept over Jerusalem, because she knew 

 not then (at forty years distance) the time of her 

 visitation ; for the days will come, saith He, when 

 there shall not be left one stone upon another : 

 but, wo is me! our day is come already, and our 

 visitation now actually upon us ; and yet, I fear, 

 we will not know it, as we ought. For — 



2. Reflect a little upon the tense of the verb, 

 how that varies too in the parts of the propo- 

 sition : The Judgments are in the earth, and 



the Inhabitants will learn (so the vulgar Latin 



and the English,) it is still per verba de futuro. 

 For we list not to handfast ourselves to God 

 Almighty, to make ourselves over to him by 

 present deed of gift ; but would fain, forsooth, be- 

 queath ourselves to him, a legacy, in our last will 

 and testament. Aye, but in 7iecessitatibus nemo 

 liberalis : it is not a free or a noble donation, 

 which we bestow, when we can keep it no longer 



* Luk. xix. 41. 



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