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Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of…
Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. the latter in the year 1666. / By T.V. ; To which is added, the general bill of mortality, showing the number of persons which died in every parish of all diseases, and of the plague, in the year abovesaid. ; [Two lines from Micah]Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. the latter in the year 1666. / By T.V. ; To which is added, the generall bill of mortality, shewing the number of persons which died in every parish of all diseases, and of the plague, in the year abovesaid. ; [Two lines from Micah]
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1668
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.
GODS Terrible Voice in the City of London: By the late Judgement of the Plague.
THE Plague so great, so lately, should not be forgotten; yet lest the Fire more lately, and proportionably more great, and the amazing fears, which since have risen within us, should shuffle former thoughts out of our minds, and raze out the impressions, which by the Plague we had, and should labour to retain to our dying hour: Therefore I shall give a brief Narration of this sad Judgement, and some observations of mine own (who was here in the City from the beginning to the end of it) both to keep alive in my self and others, the memory of the Judgement, that we may be the better prepared for compliance with Gods design in sending the Plague amongst us.
THE Plague so great, so lately, should not be forgotten; yet lest the Fire more lately, and proportionably more great, and the amazing fears, which since have risen within us, should shuffle former thoughts out of our mindes, and rase out the impressions, which by the Plague we had, and should labour to retain to our dying hour: Therefore I shall give a brief Narration of this sad Judgement, and some observations of mine own (who was here in the City from the beginning to the end of it) both to keep alive in my self and others, the memory of the Judgement, that we may be the better prepared for compliance with Gods design in sending the Plague amongst us.
It was in the Year of our Lord 1665, that the Plague began in our City of London, after we were warned by the great Plague in Holland in the year 1664, and the beginning of it in some remote parts of our Land the same year; not to speak any thing whether there was any signification and influence in the Blazing-Star not long before, that appeared in the view of London, and struck some amazement upon the spirits of many. It was in the month of May that the Plague was first taken notice of, our Bills of Mortality did let us know but of three which died of the Disease in the whole year before; but in the beginning of May the Bill tells us of nine, which fell by the Plague, one just in the heart of the City, the other eight in the Suburbs. This was the first arrow of warning that was shot from Heaven amongst us, and fear quickly begins to creep upon peoples Hearts great