448 2heLIEE of,&c. IR. I. Lady as the Cafe deferibeth. And thoughGod may pollibly convert and make' tuitable, and do wonders hereafter, yet it being things likely, and not things only pofble which reafon muff expea, I mull fay that theConfequents of filch an unfui- ` table Match, are like to be bitterer to her, than onethat is indifferent and regard- lefs of the Concernmenis of a Soul can unclear-and. 4. Change but the Tables, and put the Cafe to a judicious Papilt, andhewill refolve it as I have done; and ' tell you that a Difpenfation may be given but in fach Cafes. F. If the Cafe had ' been, Whether filch a Lady might give all her Eftate toa Papilt without her Per- ' fon, I should not think fhe had halt tomuch-reafon to be willing. Allots, uly`zr. 166f. Baxter. `§ 445. And now after all the Breacheson the Churches, the fije&ion ofthe Mi- nilters, and Impenitency under all, Wars and Plague and danger of Famine be- ' gan all at once on us. War with the Hollanders, which yet continueth : And the ' drieft Winter, Springand Summer that ever Manalive knew, or our Forefathers mention of late Ages : fo that the Groundswere burnt like the High -ways,where the Cattle should have fed! The Meadow Grounds where! li- About r0000 a week died, ' ved bare but four Loadsof Hay, which before bare forty : The account;ng the Quakers, ana- ' Plague bath feizerl on the famoufeft and molt excellent City of bapt,lls, and others, whowere ' Chriftendom and at this time Soso and near oo die ofall not numbred in the Weekly Difeafes in a Week : It bath fcueteredand confumed the Inha,-, Bills. bitants: Multitudes being dead and fled: The Calamities and Cries of thedifeafed and impoverilhed arenot to be conceived by thofe that are abfent frot*hem ! Every Man is,a terrourtohis Neighbour and himfelf t for God for our Sins is aTerrour tous all, Ohow is London, the place which God bath honoured withhis Gofpel above all Places of the Earth , laid low in Honours, and waftedeland to Defolation, by the WrathofGod, whom Englandhath con- temned ; and a God -hating Generation are confumed in their Sins, and the Righ- teous are alto taken away as from greater Evil yet to come. Strange Comets (which filled the Thoughts andWritings ofAftronomers)did in theWinter andSpring along time appear beforethefe Calamities. Yet under all thefe Defolations- the Wicked are hardened, and calf all on the Fanaticks: and the true dividing Fanaticks and Seetaries are not yet humbled for former Mifcarriages, but caft all on the Prelates and Impofers : And the ignorant Vulgar are ftupid, and know not what ufe to makeof any thing they feel : But thoufands of the fober, prudent, faithful Servants of the Lord, are mourning in fecret, and waiting for his Salvation; in Humility and Hope they are ffaying.themfelveson God, andexpe&ingwhat he will do with them. From London it is fpread through many Counties, elpecially next London, where few places, efpecially Corporations, are free : which makes me oft groan and with, That LONDON AND ALL THE CORPORATIONS O F ENG- LAND WOULD REVIEWTHE CORPORATION ACT AND THEIR OWN ACTS, AND SPEEDILY REPENT. Leaving molt of my Familyat Acton compaffed about with the Plague, at the writingof this through the mercy of my dear Godand Father in Chrift, I am hitherto in Safety and Comfort, in the Houfeof my dearly beloved and honoured Friend Mr. Richard Hampden of Hamp- den in Buckinghamfhire, the true heir of his famous Father's Sincerity, Piety and De- votednefs to Gott; whofe Perkin and Family the Lordpreferve, and honour them that honour him, and be their Everlafting Reft and Portion. Hampden, Septemb. 28. r66í. onto' THE
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