Thege~rerallloflofconfoience lamented. 305 butions to help to fray it: Here who can Cap.2o• .come: neer to refcue ? 5. In the fire one part ofthe honfe .may be confumed, and 4nother end of it kept up tlanding : But hete no part offhip,or goods, or perfons preferved, all fare alike, and perilh together. 6. There if friends cannot help, they can condole' and lament their impoverilhed neighbours condition; which is fome col)l– fort to t~cm : Here is none to help, none to comfort, none to pitie, or fo much as to prayfor thee. . . · _ 7· There when the ·fire bath done his worn., the grobnd yet remains, where a new houfe may be built again; fomewha~ there ~s to be feen (though but heaps of Afhes) that tells the Paffenger, Here :Lrood fttch a houfe. But her~ .all is fwallowedup ~n an infiant, and their place nomore feen. 8. There the man commonly out-lives· his calamitie, and through thr. bleiling of .God, and charitie of neighbours, the ·houfe is rebuilt, th~ fiate is repaired, the man re– covers himfelf, and lives as well again as ~ever he did before. Here the man, and his - goods, andhis V~{fell perifh all together. But yet if any ibipwrack be in any thing more lal\lentable then fire, This metaoho– Hcall and (pirituall fhipwrack is infitiite1y more dreadfull, undoing, and irrecoverable then any other fhipwrack. Andyet how many iiKh ill Accidents (a~ X we ,,
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