God's terrible voice in the city

But on Wednesday-night, when the people late of London, now of the fields, hoped to get a ⟨p. 68⟩little rest on the ground, where they had spread their beds, a more dreadful fear falls upon them than they had before, through a rumour that the French were coming armed against them to cut their throats, and spoil them of what they had saved out of the Fire; they were now naked, and weak, and in ill condition to defend themselves, and the hearts, especially of the females, do quake, and tremble, and are ready to die within them; yet many Citizens having lost their houses, and almost all that they had, are fired with rage and fury: and they begin to stir up themselves like Lyons, or like Bears bereaved of their whelps, and now Arm, Arm, Arm, doth resound the Fields and Suburbs with a dreadful voice. We may guess at the distress and perplexity of the people this night, which was something alleviated when the falseness of the alarm was perceived.

But on Wednesday-night, when the people late of London, now of the fields, hoped to get a ⟨p. 68⟩little rest on the ground, where they had spread their beds, a more dreadful fear fals upon them than they had before, through a rumour that the French were comming armed against them to cut their throats, and spoil them of what they had saved out of the Fire; they were now naked, and weak, and in ill condition to defend themselves, and the hearts, especially of the females, do quake, and tremble, and are ready to die within them; yet many Citizens having lost their houses, and almost all that they had, are fired with rage and fury: and they begin to stir up themselves like Lyons, or like Bears bereaved of their whelps, and now Arm, Arm, Arm, doth resound the Fields and Suburbs with a dreadful voice. We may guess at the distress and perplexity of the people this night, which was something alleviated when the falsness of the alarm was perceived.

Thus fell great London, that ancient City! that populous City! London, which was the Queen City of the Land, and as famous as most Cities in the world; none so famous for the Gospel and zealous profession of the reformed Religion. And yet how is London departed like smoke, and her glory laid in the dust? how is her destruction come, which no man thought of, and her desolation in a moment? how do the Nations about gaze and wonder? how doth the whole Land tremble at the noise of her fall? how do her Citizens droop and hang down their heads? her Women and Virgins weep, and sit in the dust? Oh, the paleness that now sits upon the cheeks! the astonishment and confusion that covers the