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London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…
London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames / by Thomas Brooks.
London: printed for John Hancock and Nathaniel Ponder, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Charles the IX. was a great shedder of the blood of the 1Just, he had a deep hand in the Massacre of the Protestants in Paris, and in other Parts of his Kingdom, he glutted himself with the blood of the Just, and gloried greatly in their ruins. In his latter days he was surprised with a great debility and tormenting pains in his body, after a great effusion 2of blood which issued out by all the passages of his body, he breathed forth his wretched Soul. Oh the horrid butcheries that were committed and commanded by this bloody Prince his Reign, throughout his whole Realm! but at last divine Vengeance overtook him, and he dyed wallowing in his own blood, &c.
Charles the IX. was a great shedder of the blood of the 1Just, he had a deep hand in the Massacre of the Protestants in Paris, and in other Parts of his Kingdom, he glutted himself with the blood of the Just, and gloried greatly in their ruines. In his latter days he was surprised with a great debility and tormenting pains in his body, after a great effusion 2of blood which issued out by all the passages of his body, he breathed forth his wretched Soul. Oh the horrid butcheries that were committed and commanded by this bloody Prince his Reign, throughout his whole Realm! but at last divine Vengeance overtook him, and he dyed wallowing in his own blood, &c.
- 1History of France, pag. 791. to pag. 798.
- 2Pag. 808, 809.
The Duke of Guise, next to the King, had the greatest