God's terrible voice in the city

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 ⟨p. 59⟩those that sat still and had only the notice of the ear, of the quick and strange spreading of the Fire.

That which made the ruin the more dismall, 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 Farewel 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 ⟨p. 59⟩those that sat still and had only the notice of the eare, of the quick and strange spreading of the Fire.

Now the Train-bands are up in Arms watching at every quarter for Outlandish men, because of the general fears and jealousies, and rumours that Fire-Balls were thrown into houses by several of them, to help on and provoke the too furious flames. Now Goods are hastily removed from the lower parts of the City; and the body of the people begin to retire, and draw upwards, as the people did from the Tabernacles of Corah, Dathan and Abiram,