God's terrible voice in the city

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, Esa. 9. 19, 20. Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the Land darkened; and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire, no man shall spare his brother; and he shall snatch on his right hand and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arms: If London had been forced through hunger to eat the flesh of their own arms, and the fruit of their own bodies, Oh what a dismal face would there have been in the City! and how would death have been chosen rather than life; in the by-us-unconceivable pain of gnawing hunger! Those which dye by the Plague or are slain by the sword, would be counted happy in comparison with them that live under such a judgement.

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 Ierusalem; If instead of houses in London, God should have made the people as fuel of the Fire in this judgement, as is threatned, Esa. 9. 19, 20. Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the Land darkened; and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire, no man shall spare his brother; and he shall snatch on his right hand and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arms: If London had been forced through hunger to eat the flesh of their own arms, and the fruit of their own bodies, Oh what a dismal face would there have been in the City! and how would death have been chosen rather than life; in the by-us-unconceivable pain of gnawing hunger! Those which dye by the Plague or are slain by the sword, would be counted happy in comparison with them that live under such a judgement.