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

In Constantinople in A. D. 465. in the beginning of September, there brake forth such a fire by the water side, as raged with that dread, force and fury, and violence four days and nights together, that it burnt down the greatest part of the City, the strongest and the stateliest houses, being but as dried stubble before it. It bid defiance to all means of resistance; it went on triumphing and scorning all humane helps, till it had turned that great and populous City (once counted by some the wonder of the world) into a ruinous heap. This of all fires comes nearest to the late fire of London: but what is the burning of a thousand Romes, and a thousand Constantinoples, or the burning of ten thousand Barbarous Cities, to the burning of one London? Where God was as greatly known, and as dearly loved, and as highly prized, and as purely served, as he was in any one place under the whole Heavens! O Sirs, 'tis our duty and our high concernment, to see the hand of the Lord, and to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the least fires: how much more then does it become us, to see the hand of the Lord lifted up in that late dreadful fire that has laid our City desolate. But,

In Constantinople in A. D. 465. in the beginning of September, there brake forth such a fire by the water side, as raged with that dread, force and fury, and violence four dayes and nights together, that it burnt down the greatest part of the City, the strongest and the stateliest houses, being but as dried stubble before it. It bid defiance to all means of resistance; it went on triumphing and scorning all humane helps, till it had turned that great and populous City (once counted by some the wonder of the world) into a ruinous heap. This of all fires comes nearest to the late fire of London: but what is the burning of a thousand Romes, and a thousand Constantinoples, or the burning of ten thousand Barbarous Cities, to the burning of one London? Where God was as greatly known, and as dearly loved, and as highly prized, and as purely served, as he was in any one place under the whole Heavens! O Sirs, 'tis our duty and our high concernment, to see the hand of the Lord, and to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in the least fires: how much more then does it become us, to see the hand of the Lord lifted up in that late dreadful fire that has laid our City desolate. But,