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God's terrible voice in the city
God's terrible voice in the city by T.V.
London? : s.n., Printed in the year 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And though these Judgments of Plague and Fire are National judgments, and may be the product of National sins, and I verily am persuaded, that God was more highly provoked by some that dwelt out of the City, than with those which dwelt in it, I mean the profane and ungodly generation, who chiefly did inhabit more remotely; and that God, being so provoked, was the more ready to strike, and let his hand fall so heavy upon London; yet since many of the ungodly crew were got into the City it self, and most in the City, that were not of them, & did not dare to commit their impieties, yet made themselves guilty, by not mourning for them, and labouring in their place what they could after a redress; and since London it self hath been guilty of so many crying sins (as I shall endeavour to show.) Gods righteousness in the terrible things of London will be evident, especially if we consider
And though these Judgments of Plague and Fire are National judgments, and may be the product of National sins, and I verily am perswaded, that God was more highly provoked by some that dwelt out of the City, than with those which dwelt in it, I mean the profane and ungodly generation, who chiefly did inhabit more remotely; and that God, being so provokt, was the more ready to strike, and let his hand fall so heavy upon London; yet since many of the ungodly crew were got into the City it self, and most in the City, that were not of them, & did not dare to commit their impieties, yet made themselves guilty, by not mourning for them, and labouring in their place what they could after a redress; and since London it self hath been guilty of so many crying sins (as I shall endeavour to shew.) Gods righteousness in the terrible things of London will be evident, especially if we consider
1. That God hath punished London no more than their iniquities have deserved.
2. That God hath punished London less than their iniquities have deserved.