London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

The force and violence of this fire was so great, that many that removed their goods once, twice, thrice, yea, and some oftener, yet lost all at last. The fire followed them so close from place to place, that some saved but little, and others lost all. Now how well dos it become us, in the rage and fury of the flames, to see the hand of the Lord, and to bow before him, as this fire being like Time, which devours all before it. Jerusalem was the glory and beauty of the whole Earth; and the Temple was one of the worlds wonders: but when Titus Vespasian's Soldiers had set it on ¹fire, it burnt with that rage and fury, that all the industry and skill that ever could be used, imagined, or thought on, could not quench it, though Titus would gladly hav• preserved it, as a matchless monument. They threw both water and the blood of the slain into it, but it burnt with that violence, that nothing could extinguish it. King Herod for eight years together, before the ruin of it, had employed ten thousand men at work to beautify it; but when once 'twas on fire, it burnt with that fierceness, that there was no preserving of it, the Decree of Heaven been gone out against it, &c. But,

The force and violence of this fire was so great, that many that removed their goods once, twice, thrice, yea, and some oftner, yet lost all at last. The fire followed them so close from place to place, that some saved but little, and others lost all. Now how well dos it become us, in the rage and fury of the flames, to see the hand of the Lord, and to bow before him, as this fire being like Time, which devours all before it. Jerusalem was the glory and beauty of the whole Earth; and the Temple was one of the worlds wonders: but when Titus Vespasian's Souldiers had set it on ¹fire, it burnt with that rage and fury, that all the industry and skill that ever could be used, imagined, or thought on, could not quench it, though Titus would gladly hav• preserved it, as a matchless monument. They threw both water and the blood of the slain into it, but it burnt with that violence, that nothing could extinguish it. King Herod for eight years together, before the ruine of it, had imployed ten thousand men at work to beautifie it; but when once 'twas on fire, it burnt with that fierceness, that there was no preserving of it, the Dcree of Heaven been gone out against it, &c. But,