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Title: A Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; On Occasion of the Late Earthquakes

Author: Thomas Sherlock

Release Date: August 6, 2008 [EBook #26204]

Language: English

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A
LETTER
FROM THE
LORD BISHOP
OF
_LONDON_,
TO THE
CLERGY and PEOPLE
OF
_London_ and _Westminster_;
On Occasion of the Late
EARTHQUAKES.

_LONDON_:
Printed for JOHN WHISTON in _Fleetstreet_.
MDCCL.

[Price Three-Pence.]

TO THE
CLERGY and Inhabitants
OF THE
Cities of _London_ and _Westminster_.

_My Brethren and Friends_,

The Relation I stand in to you, is a daily Call upon me to consider the
spiritual State of these great Cities; and tho' I doubt not but GOD has
many faithful and chosen Servants among you, yet the general View of
the Wickedness and Corruption that abound, and are spreading far and
wide, gives me, and must give to every serious Christian very painful
Reflexions: It is hardly possible to think of the History of
Providence, recorded in Holy Writ, and the many Examples of Divine
Justice exercised, sometimes in punishing, sometimes in utterly
destroying wicked Nations, or Cities, without being sensibly affected
with Apprehensions for ourselves: But more especially have we Reason to
fear, when we see the _Beginning of Sorrows_, and the Displeasure of
the Almighty manifested in the Calamities we suffer under, and in the
Signs and Tokens given us to expect a far more dreadful Judgment.

It is every Man's Duty, and it is mine to call upon you, to give
Attention to all the Warnings which God in his Mercy affords to a
sinful People: Such Warning we have had, by two great Shocks of an
Earthquake; a Warning, which seems to h