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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.
2. God might have punished London also more severely by the Fire. The greatest part of the City is fallen, it might have been the whole: Most of the City within the Walls is consumed; the flames might have issued forth at all the Gates, and consumed all the Suburbs too: all the goods might have been burnt with the houses, and all the Inhabitants with the Habitations.
The Fire, though it burned dreadfully, yet it began at one end; and came on so slowly, that most of the Inhabitants of London had time to ⟨p. 185⟩remove themselves, and the choicest of their goods; some Livelihood was left, and Materials for a future Trade.
The Fire, though it burned dreadfully, yet it began at one end; and came on so slowly, that most of the Inhabitants of London had time to ⟨p. 185⟩remove themselves, and the choycest of their goods; some Livelihood was left, and Materials for a future Trade.
Suppose the Fire had been so sudden, or had been kindled in so many places, that there had been no possibility of removing any thing, except the persons themselves. Suppose all the Silver, and Gold, and rich Plate of the City had been melted by this Fire, that all the Wares and Merchandise, all the Garments, Beds and Household goods had been turned into ashes; and many thousand Families, that have been turned out of house had been turned out of all, and quite bereaved of all their Substance, so that nothing had remained to them for necessary use, this would have been very sore.
Suppose the Fire had been so sudden, or had been kindled in so many places, that there had been no possibility of removing any thing, except the persons themselves. Suppose all the Silver, and Gold, and rich Plate of the City had been melted by this Fire, that all the Wares and Merchandize, all the Garments, Beds and Houshold goods had been turned into ashes; and many thousand Families, that have been turned out of house had been turned out of all, and quite bereaved of all their Substance, so that nothing had remained to them for necessary use, this would have been very sore.