God's terrible voice in the city

they little thought it would be so when they went into their beds; they did not in the lest suspect, when the doors of their ears were unlocked, and the casement of their eyes were opened in the morning, to hear of such an enemies invading the City▪ and that they should see him, with such fury, enter the doors of their houses, break into every room, and look out of their casements with such a threatening countenance. As it is said, Lam. 4. 12. The inhabitants would not have believed that the adversary should have entered the gates of Jerusalem: so the Inhabitants of the City would not have believed that the Fire should have entered and prevailed to burn London to the ground.

they little thought it would be so when they went into their beds; they did not in the lest suspect, when the doors of their ears were unlockt, and the casement of their eyes were opened in the morning, to hear of such an enemies invading the City▪ and that they should see him, with such fury, enter the doors of their houses, break into every room, and look out of their casements with such a threatning countenance. As it is said, Lam. 4. 12. The inhabitants would not have believed that the adversary should have entered the gates of Ierusalem: so the Inhabitants of the City would not have believed that the Fire should have entred and prevailed to burn London to the ground.

That which made the ruin the more dismal, was, that it was begun on the Lords day morning: never was there the like Sabbath in London; some Churches were in flames that day; and God seems to come down, and to preach himself in them, as he did in Mount Sinai; when the Mount burned with Fire; such warmpreaching those Churches never had; such Lightning dreadful Sermons never were before delivered in London. In other Churches Ministers were preaching their Farewell Sermons, and people were hearing with quaking and astonishment: Instead of a holy Rest which Christians have taken on this day; there is a tumultuous hurrying about the streets towards the place that burned, and more tumultuous hurrying upon the spirits of