God's terrible voice in the city

If bloody Papists had come into our Houses in the dead of the Night, with such kind of Knives in their hands as were found after the Fire in Barrels; and having set Watch at every Streets end, had suffered none to escape, but cruelly slaughtered the Husband with the Wife, the Parents and the Children together, ripping up women with Child, and not sparing either the Silver hair, or the Sucking Babe; If there had been a cry at midnight, They are come; but no possibility of flying from them, or making resistance against them; if instead of heaps of Stones and Bricks in the top of every street, there had been heaps of dead Bodies, and the Kennels had been made to run down with gore-blood; sure this Judgement would have been more dreadful than the Plague or Fire, which have been among us.

If bloody Papists had come into our Houses in the dead of the Night, with such kinde of Knives in their hands as were found after the Fire in Barrels; and having set Watch at every Streets end, had suffered none to escape, but cruelly slaughtered the Husband with the Wife, the Parents and the Children together, ripping up women with Childe, and not sparing either the Silver hair, or the Sucking Babe; If there had been a cry at midnight, They are come; but no possibility of flying from them, or making resistance against them; if instead of heaps of Stones and Bricks in the top of every street, there had been heaps of dead Bodies, and the Kennels had been made to run down with gore-blood; sure this Judgement would have been more dreadfull than the Plague or Fire, which have been among us.

2. God might have punished London with Famine, which is a greater Judgement than the Plague or Sword: If the Lord had broken ⟨p. 190⟩the whole staff of bread, and cut off all provisions of food from the many thousand souls that lived in and about the City; how dreadful would this have been! If a famine had been so sore in London; that people should have been forced to eat one another and their own flesh, as it was in Samaria and Jerusalem; If instead of houses in London, God should have made the people as fuel of the Fire in this judgement, as is threatened,