God's terrible voice in the city

1. That these Judgments of Plague and Fire are both of them National judgments.

1. The judgment of the Plague was National; in as much as London was the chief City, in as much as the Kings Court was here, and most Countries had relations here; and all Countries ⟨p. 73⟩had concernments here: moreover the Plague was not only in London, and Westminster, and and places near adjacent, but it was dispersed into the Countries at a farther distance, as Cambridge, Norwich, Colchester, and other Towns, where it raged either the same or the next year, as much proportionably as it did in London.

1. The judgment of the Plague was National; in as much as London was the chief City, in as much as the Kings Court was here, and most Countries had relations here; and all Countries ⟨p. 73⟩had concernments here: moreover the Plague was not only in London, and Westminster, and and places neer adjacent, but it was dispersed into the Countries at a farther distance, as Cambridge, Norwich, Colchester, and other Towns, where it raged either the same or the next year, as much proportionably as it did in London.

2. The Judgment of the Fire which burned down only the City, and left Westminster and the Suburbs standing, and did not reach into the Countries, yet was a National judgment, because London was the Metropolis of the Land, because the Beauty, Riches, Strength, and Glory of the whole Kingdom lay in London: and it was not the inhabitants of the City who alone did suffer by this fire, but the whole Land more or less, do and will feel the smart hereof.