a true and exact prospect of the famous citty of london from s. marie overs steeple in southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire hollar, wenceslaus, 1607-1677. 1666 approx. 1 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2008-09 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a86466 wing h2451a estc r231016 99899714 99899714 134682 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a86466) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 134682) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2430:3) a true and exact prospect of the famous citty of london from s. marie overs steeple in southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire hollar, wenceslaus, 1607-1677. 2 sheets (versos blank) : ill. s.n., [london : 1666] entirely engraved. consists of two detailed sketches of london; one before the fire of 1666 and another titled "another prospect of the sayd citty taken from the same place as it appeareth now after the sad calamitie and destruction by fire, in the yeare m.dc.lxvi." signed at end: "wenceslaus hollar: delin: et sculp: 1666." reproduction of original in the folger shakespeare library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng fires -england -london -early works to 1800. broadsides -england 2007-09 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2007-11 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-12 mona logarbo sampled and proofread 2007-12 mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a trve and exact prospect of the famovs citty of london from s. marie overs steeple in southwarke in its flourishing condition before the fire designed by w : hollard of prage , boh a : another prospect of the sayd citty taken from the same place as it appeareth now after the sad calamitie and destrvction by fire , in the year m. dc . lxvi . wenceslaus hollar delin : et sculp : 1666 ▪ 1. temple church ▪ 2. s. dunstans west 3 s. brides 4 s. benet 5 s. andrew in wardrop 6. s. peters in thamstret 7. s. martins by ludgate 8. s. andrew in holborne ▪ 9. s. pulchers ▪ 10. s. nicholas 11 christ church 12 s. augustines 13 s. foster 14 s. iohn zachary 15 s. martins in thamestret 16 s. mary alderman 〈…〉 17 s. thomas apostles ▪ 18 bow church 19. 20 s. laurence 21 s. mary butolfslane 22 allhallowes y e great 23 s. stevens colmanstret 24. s. margaret 25. s. mary wolnoth 26. s lorence poultney ▪ 27 s. stevens in walbroke ▪ 28. s. christopher ▪ 29 s. bartholomew 30 s. edmunds 31 s. michael cornhill 32 allhallowes 33 s. peters in cornhill 34. s. denis .. 35. s. magnus 36. s. andrew hubart . 37 s mary hill 38. s. botolph aldgate ▪ 39 s. dunstans s●●t 40 allhallow●s barking 41 blackfriars staires 42 ba●●a●ds castle 43 pauls wharfe 44 ▪ waterhouse ▪ 45. 3 cranes 46. queene hythe 47 staliard 48 col harbour 49. old swan ▪ 50. fishmongers hall ▪ 51. b●lins gats ▪ 52. custome house ▪ 53. tower wharfe . 54 leaden hall 55. royall e●●hange 56 guildhall . 57. basinghall ▪ 58. ludgate ▪ account concerning the fire and burning of edenbourgh in scotland, in a letter from a gentleman there, to his friend in dublin. : scotland, february the 12th, 1700. 1700 approx. 3 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2009-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a75085 wing a170 estc r170017 45098208 ocm 45098208 171099 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a75085) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 171099) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 2559:1) account concerning the fire and burning of edenbourgh in scotland, in a letter from a gentleman there, to his friend in dublin. : scotland, february the 12th, 1700. knowles, mr. 1 sheet ([1] p.). printed and sold next door to the fleece in st. nicholas-street, dublin : 1700. "to prevent doubts concerning the above relation, the original was received by and is now in the hands of mr. knowles ..." reproduction of original in: trinity college library, dublin, ireland. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng fires -scotland -edinburgh. edinburgh (scotland) -history. broadsides -ireland -17th century. 2008-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images 2008-11 john pas sampled and proofread 2008-11 john pas text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion account concerning the fire and burning of edenbourgh in scotland , in a letter from a gentleman there , to his friend in dublin . scotland . february the 12th , 1700. sir , i doubt not but you have had the fatal account of the late fire in the city of edenbourgh , which has burnt the whole parliament-close , save the parliament house , and churches ; and near to the cross on the south-side of the said street . a letter from edenbourgh the other day carries that there is upwards of five hundred families dislodged . there is no great loss of men and women , but other losses are considerable . it 's talkt that the whole church registers of scotland are gone . your cousin broughton is preserved in person by the providence of god , though in seeming hazard : his cabinet and-papers sustained the common damage of others ; but there is no loss of papers by burning , for all gentlemens papers being given away in confusion , not minding to whom ; and a great part of them being cast over the walls , were carried away by the rabble . the most part , or all , of the gentry of galloway , are in one circumstance this way : there are orders issued forth for restoring of papers to their owners , but that cannot be expected without considerable money to those who have them ; and where inventories are wanting , to be sure there will be considerable loss . the duke of hamilton seemed very anxious to have the fire quenched , offering abundance of gold to have it done . there is one buchan clapt up on suspicion of having an hand in the fire . there is one _____ imprioned at glascow likewise , who is thought to have a hand in the fire which happened in that city a little before : but there shall be no more added at present by a well-wisher of yours . to prevent doubts concerning the above relation , the original was received by , and is now in the hands of mr. knowles in back-lane , dublin ; who asserts it to come from correspondent of his , of good repute and credit in scotland . dublin , printed and sold next door to the flecce in st. nicholas-street , 1700. a true and perfect narrative of the late dreadful fire which happened at bridge-town in the barbadoes, april 18, 1668 as the same was communicated in two letters from mr. john bushel, and mr. francis bond, two eminent merchants there, to mr. edward bushel, citizen and merchant of london : containing the beginning, progress, and event of that dreadful fire, with the estimation of the loss accrewing thereby, as it was delivered to his majesty by several eminent merchants concerned in that loss. bushel, john. 1668 approx. 9 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 5 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a30700 wing b6235 estc r21806 12260927 ocm 12260927 57886 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a30700) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 57886) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 131:7) a true and perfect narrative of the late dreadful fire which happened at bridge-town in the barbadoes, april 18, 1668 as the same was communicated in two letters from mr. john bushel, and mr. francis bond, two eminent merchants there, to mr. edward bushel, citizen and merchant of london : containing the beginning, progress, and event of that dreadful fire, with the estimation of the loss accrewing thereby, as it was delivered to his majesty by several eminent merchants concerned in that loss. bushel, john. bushel, edward. bond, francis. [2], 6 p. printed by peter lillicrap ..., london : [1668] date of publication from wing. "licenced according to order" reproduction of original in british library. imperfect: t.p. closely cropped at top. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng fires -barbados -bridgetown. bridgetown (barbados) -fire, 1668. 2006-05 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-05 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-09 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2006-09 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a true and pefect narrative of the late dreadful fire which happened at bridge-town in the barbadoes , april 18. 1668. as the same was communicated in two letters from mr. john bushel , and mr. francis bond , two eminent merchants there , to mr. edward bushel citizen and merchant of london . containing the beginning , progress , and event of that dreadful fire ; with the estimation of the loss accrewing thereby , as it was delivered to his majesty by several eminent merchants concerned in that loss . licenced according to order . london . printed by peter lillicrap , living in clerkenwell close . an abstract of a leter from mr. john bushel , and mr. francis bond two eminent merchants in the barbadoes , to mr. edward bushel citizen and merchant of london ; concerning the late dreadful fire , which hapned at bridge town , the cheif place in that island april 18 th 1668. sir . this vessels sudden departure , and our amazeing distraction gives us time to write to you , onely 2 or three lines , but upon the most dismal and afflicting occasion that ever offered it self from these parts ; for on satterday evening last , being the eighteenth of this instant month , there hapned a most dreadful fire in our town , which in the space of two or three houres time , burnt and consumed almost all the whole buildings thereof , save only a very few houses to the great astonishment of all those who were either concerned in the loss , or spectators thereof . divine providence so ordered it , that our house was one of the first sacrifices to the flames , whether it begun in our or our neighbors house we know not ; and help could none be there expected , it being next door to the publique magazine of the island , which somtime after blew up , with great terrour and damage ; we having scare time in the mean space to save our books and papers of concern ( together with our lives ) from the merciless rage of that devouring fire , and dreadful stroke of the powder which killed many with its violent stroke . the lord sanctifie this affliction unto us , and cause us with deep and serious contrition , to be sensible of his severe displeasure , which hath been revealed against us , and others of this nation . yours sir . barbadoes april the 20th 1668. the abstract of another letter sent from the aforesaid persons to mr. edward bushel dated april the 27 th 1668. sir , we shall now ( as having more time and leasure ) give you a particular account of the sad callamity which befel on satrurday the 18 instant , mentioned in my last : that day we were at home busy , writing most part of the day , and at evening about five of the clock , ( our house being washed and books and papers laid aside , being our usual practise in order to a timely retirement for the sabboth ; we two walked out as far as exchange-place , leaving three or four of our servants at home , but we had not been gone little above the space of a quarter of an hour , till we were allarum'd with an out cry of a fire , which was said to be either in our , or our neighbours garret . james costin was then in our counting house receiving of mony , yet so ignorant of the mishap that he knew nothing thereof , till he was made sensible of it , by the peoples running up stairs , who discovered the garret all on fire : nor can he give any account by what means or when it hapned , that which is much suspected and most probable , is that it was either done by a little negro , who lighted the candle for them to tell the money , and might go up with the same into the garret , or else that it might be kindled by some spark accidentally falling from some of the neighbours chimneys , but of which we cannot yet absolutely determine , but we upon our return , finding the fire past recovery hasted to secure what was most considerable , and what in such a sudden exigency we could carry away , not daring to stay any long time , the fire prevailing so dreadfully upon our house , and it being next to the magazine of the island , which had in it about 170 barrels of powder , which set such an amazement , and struck such a terrour upon the hearts of most people , that they durst not attempt to give that assistance , which otherwise would have been done and performed , and might have prevented ( in all probability ) a great part of this devastation . so that by what hath been demonstrated , we must ascribe the cause of the fire prevailing so far , to be the cause of the magazine , which being in the middle of the town , was a terrour to every man for lending his assistance to the quenching of the flames , well knowing that when the fire came to the powder so near adjacent , it would cause such a blow as would destory all near unto it : and indeed it is a miracle of mercy ( that upon so little warning ) it did not destroy many hundreds of people , which either by covetuosness of saving their goods , or impotency , staid behind , as it was likely to have done , had the powder been in a low room , and not above , and questionless had it met with any opposition it might have caused a very great earthquake ( which islands of this nature are much subject unto ) and so by consequence , reason induces me to believe , that very few in or near the town had escaped alive . but god whose mercies are infinite here demonstrated it unto us , and mingled pitty with his judgements , in not punishing to the full measure of our deserts . this blow so dispersed the fire , and shattered all the houses , that the whole town became presently a prey to its flames , it being supposed there is no less then 800 houses consumed in this terrible conflagration , with a very great value of goods , the town being very rich in commodities , of which very little was saved , most off those goods being too cumberous as to admit of a sudden removeal . sir this is a short but true account from your faithful friends . j. b. f. b. barabdoes april 27. 1668. this bridge town was the chiefest place in all the barbadoes , both for richness in commodities , and numerousness in inhabitants ; there were above twenty able merchants living in the same , who drave a great trade in tobacco , sugar , ginger , indigo , &c. the losses that accrewed by this great and sudden conflagration , amounted to above four hundred thousand pound , as hath been since estimated , and and by some able knowing merchants delivered in unto his majesty . this country of barbadoes lies on the north east of st. vincent , in the latitude of 13 degrees and 20 minutes , it is of an oval form , 17 or 18 miles in compass . the soil in shew is like that of england , but far more fruitful ; on the east side thrusting out it self with points and angles , which yeild some bays , but full of quick-sands , and unsafe for shipping ; on the south furnished with a large and commodious harbor ; not very well provided of for fruits or cattel till made a collony of the english , who have brought thither from their ow● country , swine and kine , oranges and the like from others , the chief commodities thereof , are ( as we have said ) tobacco , sugar , ginger , indigo , &c. of which they furnish other countries yearly in great abundance . this plantation is said to be worth all the rest which are made by the english , who are the sole collony in the island , and have prospered very much , until this unhappy accident before recited . finis . londons destroyer detected: and destruction lamented: or, some serious ruminations, and profitable reflections upon the late dreadful, dismal, and never-to-be-forgotten conflagration wherein is briefly comprehended several things considerable, in order to londons present recovery, and future prosperity. e. n. 1666 approx. 14 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2007-10 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a52519 wing n13a estc r224105 99834605 99834605 39107 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a52519) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 39107) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1817:8) londons destroyer detected: and destruction lamented: or, some serious ruminations, and profitable reflections upon the late dreadful, dismal, and never-to-be-forgotten conflagration wherein is briefly comprehended several things considerable, in order to londons present recovery, and future prosperity. e. n. 8 p. [s.n.], london : printed in the year, 1666. signed at end: e. n. in verse. reproduction of the original in the guildhall library, london. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng fires -england -london -poetry -early works to 1800. london (england) -poetry -early works to 1800. 2006-10 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-11 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2007-01 john latta sampled and proofread 2007-01 john latta text and markup reviewed and edited 2007-02 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion londons destroyer detected ; and destruction lamented : or , some serious ruminations , and profitable reflections upon the late dreadful , dismal , and never-to-be-forgotten conflagration . where in is briefly comprehended several things considerable , in order to londons present recovery , and future prosperity . psalm . 46. 8. come , behold the works of the lord , what desolations he hath made in the earth . lam. 1. 1. how doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ? how is she become as a widdow , she that was great among the nations , and princess among the provinces . vers . 9. her filthiness is in her skirts , she remembred not her latter end , therefore she came down wonderfully . chap. 3. 40. let us search and try our wayes , and turn again to the lord. london , printed in the year , 1666. londons destroyer detected , and destruction lamented , &c. hearken , o heavens , stand amaz'd , and be astonished , o earth , to hear and see the wondrous works the lord hath lately shown , to make his justice and his power known : call an assembly now , of old and young , and taketh assistance both of meak and strong : consult with , and examine rich and poor ; and see who can declare the like before . consider soul , who e're thou art indeed ; if nothing yet hath made thy heart to bleed : me thinks , here ' s something now , might make it sore , and make thee mourn , till thou canst mourn no more . if thy heart be not like to flint or steel , the thoughts of this will surely make thee feel . oh! wo is me . alas , what shall i say ? let every soul bewail this woful day : let every dry and barren heart lament ; and more then this , let sinners all repent ; yea every one that can but shed a tear , now show your grief , and learn the lord to fear . but what 's the news , some sleepy soul may say , that thou complainst thus of a dreadful day ? what is the cause , thou dost so strangely speak , and seem to grieve , as if thy heart would break ? why dost thou stir up people now to weep ? thou dost disturb me , for i fain would sleep . thy startling words , i cannot well indure ; wherefore leave off , and let me sleep secure . oh wonderful ! is any yet so blind ! and wofully besotted in their mind ! to live within the borders of this nation , and ask a reason of a lamentation ? such men as these , do make one reason more ; and add another to the former store . but hark a little , sleepy soul , i pray , be sure to mind what i have yet to say ; rouse up thy self from sleep and search about , and thou mayst quickly find the reason out : open thy eyes , and thou mayst plainly see , that wrath and ruine doth encompass thee . the mighty god hath lately been at work , and hath amaz'd both christian jew , and turk : yea , all the world hath cause to be afraid , to think upon the ruines he hath made ; the found whereof , hath gone both far and near , and many thousands have been fill'd with fear , to hear and see , what woful desolation , the lord hath lately made in this our nation : we plainly see , what work the lord can make ; who in his anger can whole kingdoms shake : nations confound , and cities overthrow : alas , poor england , thou hast found it so . but oh my heart even bleeds to think and tell , what unto landon lately hath befel . london , i say , englands once famous city , the lord hath strangely ruin'd without pitty . yea , london , lately famous for renown , the righteous god hath thrown it headlong down . the stately buildings of the same are burn'd , and all its beauty into ashes turn'd . yea london once the glory of the world , is sadly now into confusion hurl'd . the large and famous structures of the same , are buried in a strange devouring flame . let england mourn , let all the world admire , to think how london was destroy'd by fire . oh fearful flame , how matchless was thy rage , no less than london could thy fury swage ? how terrible was thy devouring ●ace , to spoil great london quite in three dayes space ? no tongue can tell , no pen can fully write , how strangely thou didst thousands sore afright , and drive them from their setled dwelling places , and swallow up their goods before their faces . how didst thou make all sorts of people fly ! how strangely didst thou make them run and cry ! how didst thou make them wring their hands ; & mourn , to see their houses , and their treasure burn ! yea sick and lame , thou didst turn out of door ; and many that were rich , thou mad'st them poor : thou mad'st the lofty-minded fear and quake , to see what dreadful havock thou didst make ; both great and small thou sorely didst perplex , without regard to age , degree , or sex. and nothing could thy raging power shun , till thou hadst famous london quite undone ; the mart of natious , and the kingdoms pride , in europe was not such a place beside . london's destroy'd ; alas , who can deny it ? oh that our hearts were made the better by it . alas , poor london , is it thus indeed what heart so hard , that will not melt and bleed , to think upon thy sad and wretched state , and how the lord hath plagued thee of late . oh that thou wouldst but think upon it so , as to remove the cause of this thy wo. let grief and sorrow se●● upon thy heart ; let mirth and gladness from thy soul depart ; not altogether for thy dreadful fall , but for thy sins , which is the cause of all . thy sins , thy sins , have made thy sufferings large , who can declare the greatness of thy charge ? oh that thou wouldst but once perswaded be , to ruine that which hath so ruin'd thee . break off thy sins , or else be sure to know , the righteous god will never leave thee so ; but certainly will greater vengeance take , unless thou timely dost thy sins forsake . if thou from judgements therefore wouldst be freed , thou must repent , and turn to god with speed , or else thy sins will still increase thy sorrow , till thou art made like sodom and gomorrah . however thou mayst yet my counsel slight , the time will come , when thou shalt know t' is right . thou hast had many warnings fairly sent , from god and man , thy ruine to prevent : yea oftentimes thou hast been told in love , that sin espoused vvould thy ruine prove . and by experience thou hast found it so , yet still in sin thou more and more dost grovv . thou often hast been soberly advised ; from time to time thou hast been advertised , by such as sought thy wellfare most of all , and through thy ●●● did clearly see thy fall ; but thou from time to time didst take upon thee , most stubbornly to cast their counsel from thee : yea for their love , thou hast abus'd them sore , and for their sakes thou hast even sin'd the more ; instead of kindly seeking of their good , thou wickedly hast rather fought their blood : and none have been so cruelly rewarded , as those which have thy wellfare most regarded ; whilst those have kindly entertained bin , that publickly have taught thee how to sin ; and still thy sins do more and more abound , though vengeance hath and doth besiege thee round . almost in every corner , street , and place , prophanness still appears with open face , what shall i say ? oh that i did but know how to prevent a further overthrow , how would i beg , and crave , intreat , and pray , if that would make thee cast thy sins away ; because i know thou must more righteous be , before gods anger will be turn'd from thee . mark what i say , thou must of sin repent , or else in sorrow still thou must lament ; the wrath of god will never let thee rest , until thou dost thy wickedness detest . alas , poor london , i am pain'd at heart , for thy past , present , and thy future smart . yet once again , o london , i will see , and try how counsel yet will work with thee . consider , god hath anger yet in store , and for thy sins can plague thee seven times more . his power none is able to withstand , nor hide themselves from his avenging hand ; his strength is great : who can declare the same ? the lord , the lord jehovah is his name . remember how the noisome pestilence did lately rage , and hurry thousands hence ; and fill'd the earth with such a slaughtered store , the like was hardly ever known before . the bloody sword hath also thousands slain , which in the bowels of the sea remain . and thou thereby hast sorely been opprest ; within thy borders none could live at rest . but most of all , before thou dost remember , the fatal stroke thou hadst but last september . let all these strange disasters greatly move thee now to make thy peace with god above . implore his grace , and for his mercy cry ; whom thou by sin hast made thy enemy . forsake thy sins , and utterly abhor them . humble thy self , and crave his pardon for them . the lord may yet consider thy distress . if this be done in truth and faithfulness ; and thou mayst be a place of praise once more , and flourish as thou hast done heretofore . e. n. finis . william the third, by the grace of god, king of england, scotland, france and ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans, ... and to all other our officers, ministers and subjects whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of william ebourne, john ebourne, william marshall, thomas huggins, and marmaduke roberts. and above one hundred others sufferers by fire, in the parish of saint mary magdalen bermondsey, in the county of surry: ... that on the fourteenth day of june last, there happened near the river of thames, in the said parish ... a most dreadful and sudden fire, which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses of the said poor petitioners, ... know ye therefore, that of our royal favour ... do give and grant ... full power, license, and authority, to ask, gather, receive ... charitable benevolence ... we have caused these our letters to be made patents, and to continue for one whole year from michaelmas next, and no longer. proclamation. 1700-05-28. england and wales. sovereign (1694-1702 : william iii) 1700 approx. 11 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2003-01 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a66224 wing w2487d estc r218535 99830118 99830118 34568 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a66224) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 34568) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 1942:10) william the third, by the grace of god, king of england, scotland, france and ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all and singular archbishops, bishops, archdeacons, deans, ... and to all other our officers, ministers and subjects whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of william ebourne, john ebourne, william marshall, thomas huggins, and marmaduke roberts. and above one hundred others sufferers by fire, in the parish of saint mary magdalen bermondsey, in the county of surry: ... that on the fourteenth day of june last, there happened near the river of thames, in the said parish ... a most dreadful and sudden fire, which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses of the said poor petitioners, ... know ye therefore, that of our royal favour ... do give and grant ... full power, license, and authority, to ask, gather, receive ... charitable benevolence ... we have caused these our letters to be made patents, and to continue for one whole year from michaelmas next, and no longer. proclamation. 1700-05-28. england and wales. sovereign (1694-1702 : william iii) william iii, king of england, 1650-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by benj. motte, for the patentees, london : 1700. at end of text: witness our self at westminster, the eight and twentieth day of may, in the twelfth year of our reign. fall [per] pearson. god save the king. steele notation: ireland, whereas may,. printed in black letter; royal arms at head. ordering the collection of money to aid those who lost their property in the fire; 116 houses were burned. reproduction of the original in the bodleian library, oxford. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng fires -england -early works to 1800. charity laws and legislation -england -early works to 1800. great britain -history -william and mary, 1689-1702 -early works to 1800. 2000-00 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2001-08 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2001-09 tcp staff (michigan) sampled and proofread 2001-09 tcp staff (michigan) text and markup reviewed and edited 2001-11 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion diev et mon droit . william the third , by the grace of god , king of england , scotland , france , and ireland , defender of the faith &c. to all and singular archbishops , bishops , archdeacons , deans , and their officials , parsons , vicars , curates , and all other spiritual persons : and also to all iustices of the peace , mayors , sheriffs , bayliffs , constables , churchwardens chappel-wardens , headboroughs , collectors for the poor , and their overseers : and also to all officers of cities , boroughs , and towns corporate : and to all other our officers , ministers and subjects whatsoever they be , as well within liberties as without , to whom these presents shall come , greeting . whereas it hath been humbly represented unto us by the petition of william ebourne , john ebourne , william marshall , thomas huggins , and marmaduke roberts , and above one hundred others sufferers by fire , in the parish of saint mary magdalen bermondsey , in the county of surry : and also by a certificate made at the general quarter-sessions of the peace , held by adjournment for the said county , on thursday the twentieth day of july last , under the hands of our trusty and well-beloved sir peter daniel , knight , anthony bowyer , samuel lewin , samuel atkinson , thomas lant , charles cox , james isaacson , and richard marsh , esquires , iustices of the peace for our said county : that on the fourteenth day of june last , there happened near the river of thames , in the said parish of saint mary magdalen bermondsey , where the petitioners were inhabitants , a most dreadful and sudden fire , which in the space of a few hours consumed and burnt down to the ground the dwelling-houses , of the said poor petitioners , ( the said dwelling-houses being in number one hundred and sixteen ) and also the ware-houses , sheds , stables , out-houses , wharfs , and other buildings : and also burnt several ships and vessels laying on the shoar , and some in yards : together with the houshold-goods and other goods , chattels , and implements of trade belonging to the said poor sufferers : the loss sustained thereby amounting to above twenty three thousand and seventy nine pounds , three shillings , and sixpence , as appeared to our said iustices upon a serious and strict examination by them taken in open court , upon the oaths of the said poor sufferers , as also upon the oaths of several experienced and able workmen , and of several other honest and substantial housholders within the said parish , who viewed and made an estimate thereof . by which said dismal calamity , the said poor sufferers and their families ( who by their great industry in trade and commerce , had acquired considerable stocks , and were always forward in relieving others ) are now become destitute of all support and livelihood , and no ways able to sustain themselves , but must fall into great want and penury , unless timely relieved by the charitable aid of our loving subjects . and have therefore humbly besought us to grant unto them our gracious license and protection under our great seal of england , to authorize and enable them to ask and receive the charitable contributions and benevolence of all our loving subjects within our kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick upon tweed : unto which their humble request , we have condescended , and do by these presents in a peculiar manner recommend their deplorable condition to the tender regard and charitable consideration of all our loving subjects , not doubting but that they will extend their bowels of compassion to their said poor suffering brethren for their relief and support upon this sad occasion . know ye therefore , that of our royal favour and princely compassion , we have given and granted , and by these our letters patents under our great seal of england , do give and grant unto the said poor sufferers the inhabitants of the said parish of saint mary magdalen bermondsey , and to their deputy and deputies , the bearer and bearers hereof ( authorized and deputed in that behalf , as in these presents is appointed ) full power , license , and authority , to ask , gather , receive , and take the alms and charitable benevolence of all our loving subjects , not only housholders , masters and mistresses , but also lodgers , servants , strangers and others in all and every the counties , cities , cinque-ports , towns-corporate , universities , boroughs , privileged places , parishes , chappelries , towns , villages , hamlets , and all other places whatsoever , within our kingdom of england , dominion of wales , and town of berwick upon tweed , towards the support and relief of the said poor distressed sufferers . wherefore we require and command you and every of you , that at such time and times as the deputy and deputies , the bearer and bearers hereof , shall come and repair to any of your churches , chappels , or assemblies for religious worship , to ask and receive the alms and charitable benevolence of our said loving subjects , that ye quietly permit and suffer them so to do , without any manner of your letts or contradictions . and you the said parsons , vicars , ministers , and curates , upon the next lord's day after these our letters patents , or duplicates , or true copies thereof shall be produced or tendred unto you , or to the churchwardens , or chappelwardens respectively , shall deliberately and affectionately publish and declare the tenour of the same unto our said loving subjects , and by the most prevailing arguments , excite , perswade , and stir them up to extend their liberal contributions towards their said great losses . and to the intent all our loving subjects of ability , of what perswasion soever may not exempt themselves from contributing hereunto , we do hereby charge and command the preachers and ministers of all congregations and assemblies for religious worship , that they and every of them do publish these presents , and effectually exhort their respective congregations to manifest their charity upon this occasion . and you the said churchwardens , chappelwardens , collectors for the poor , and their overseers , together with the minister where it conveniently may be , are hereby required to go from house to house upon the week-days next following the publication hereof , to collect the alms of our said loving subjects . and the sum and sums collected by virtue hereof to indorse upon these our letters patents or the said copies , in words at length and not in figures only ; together with the names of the counties , cities , towns , parishes , chappelries , and places where the same was collected , and the time and times when collected ; which indorsments are to be subscribed by the ministers and your selves , and also to be entred into your books of accompt for the said parishes , chapyelries , and places respectively . and you are also to deliver all the said monies with all the said copies unto the said bearer and bearers hereof , authorized as herein is appointed , whensoever you shall be by them or any of them thereunto required , but to no other person or persons whatsoever whose receiving thereof together with their or any of their acquittance or acquittances shall be your sufficient discharge for so doing . which said bearer and bearers are hereby willed and required upon receipt of the said mony , to pay the same into the chamber of our city of london , within thirty days next after receipt thereof , from whence the same is to be issued , disposed of , and distributed to and amongst the said poor sufferers , for their support and towards rebuilding the said houses and buildings , and repairing such as were spoiled by the said fire in such manner as our right trusty and well-beloved sir richard levett , knight . lord-mayor of our city of london , and the lord-mayor for such the time then being , our trusty and well-beloved sir francis child , knight , alderman of our city of london , sir thomas cuddon , knight , chamberlain of our said city of london , and the chamberlain of our said city for such the time being , samuel lewin esquire , samuel atkinson esquire , charles cox esquire , and john cholmeley esquire , or any five or more of them , shall from time to time under their respective hands and seals , direct and appoint . which said persons , we do hereby constitute and appoint , commissioners and trustees of the said charity , with full power to them or any five or more of them , to appoint collectors , under their respective hands and seals , and to see the mony applied and distributed as aforesaid amongst the said poor sufferers , in such proportion and with such regard to their losses and conditions , as to them shall seem just and equal ; and to no other use , intent , or purpose whatsoever , care being already taken by our said iustices of the peace in their said session , that bond is taken of the said sufferers with sureties which remain amongst the records of the sessions of peace for our said county of surry ; that the said sufferers nor any of them shall at any time convert , imploy , or bestow any of the said mony to the benefit and advantage of any landlord or other person whatsoever , but that the same shall be imployed and bestowed in re-edifying , re-building , and repairing the said houses and premises , consumed by the said fire . and lastly , our will and pleasure is , that no person or persons whatsoever , shall collect or receive the said monies of or from the said church-wardens , chappelwardens , collectors for the poor , and their overseers , or any other but such only as shall be thereunto appointed and authorized by deputation , under the hands and seals of the above-named commissioners and trusties , or any five or more of them . in witness whereof , we have caused these our letters to be made patents , and to continue for one whole year from michaelmas next , and no longer . witness our self at westminster , the eight and twentieth day of may , in the twelfth year of our reign . fall ꝑ pearson . god save the king. london : printed by benj. motte , for the patentees , 1700. upon the late lamentable fire in london in an humble imitation of the most incomparable mr. cowley his pindarick strain / by j.a. of kings-colledge in camb., fellow. allison, john, 1644 or 5-1683. 1667 approx. 17 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 8 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : 2006-06 (eebo-tcp phase 1). a23820 wing a1216 estc r7464 12637859 ocm 12637859 64938 this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons 0 1.0 universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a23820) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 64938) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 340:6) upon the late lamentable fire in london in an humble imitation of the most incomparable mr. cowley his pindarick strain / by j.a. of kings-colledge in camb., fellow. allison, john, 1644 or 5-1683. [3], 13 p. printed for h. brome ..., london : 1667. attributed to john allison. cf. wing. "licensed the 1st of december, 1666. roger l'estrange" reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng cowley, abraham, 1618-1667. fires -england -london -poetry. 2006-02 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2006-02 aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images 2006-03 emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread 2006-03 emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion upon the late lamentable fire in london . in an humble imitation of the most incomparable mr. cowley his pindarick strain . by j. a. of kings-colledge in camb. fellow . licensed the 1st . of december , 1666. roger l'estrange . london , printed for h. brome over against the dial in little-britain , 1667. upon the late lamentable accident of fire in the famous city of london : after mr. cowley his pindarick strain . i. awake proud man , and take a view , what miseries thy sins persew , thou who art unconcern'd in such a desperate state , and only learn'st by what is lost , and that so late : thy knowledge proves not worth thy cost . remember the dominion which by heav'n in the estate of innocence was giv'n , think how the whole creation still mov'd by thy father adam's will , the natures of the elements were known to be as harmless as his own , until in thee they did combine against a deity , and their allegiance , with thy innocence , became imperfect thence , and ever since , thou who once the whole did'st sway , both theirs , and thy own nature dost obey , a lord but lately , yet a slave to day . ii. when the almighty did repent , of what so lately he call'd good , over the infant world he sent an universal flood : but when good noah's off-spring many grew , ( and noah's seed were sinners too ) when they were ripe for punishment , and all their vice did for a signal judgment call , the thirsty earth did gape again impatient of an other flood of rain , and opening swallow'd some alive , because't had lookt in vain . while men in sin grew wiser yet , and various in their wickedness , god himself did think it fit their punishment should be no less , the air it self which makes our breath , became an instrument of death , if still offences of a deeper die offend his purer eye , he gives an other judgment birth , fire comes from heav'n , or fire from earth thus the four elements take turns , he drowns , he swallows us alive , he plagues , or else he burns . iii. about those hours which silence keep to tempt the froward world to ease , just at the time when cloath'd with subtile air , guilty spirits use t' appear , when the hard students to their pillows creep , ( all but the aged men that wake , who in the morn their slumbers take ) when fire themselves are put to sleep , onely the thrifty lights that burn , and melancholick persons please just then a message came , brought by a murmuring wind , not to every obvious flame , thousands of those it left behind , and chose a treacherous heap of sparks , which buryed in their ashes lay , which when discover'd by some secret marks , the air fann'd the pale dust away , what less than heav'n could e're this message send the embers glowing wak't , and did attend . iv. in an unusual tone the embassie deliver'd was , the teeming air it self did groan , nor for its burden could it farther pass , their dialects but to themselves unknown , onely by sad effects we see , they did agree , to execute the great decree , and all with the same secrecy conspire , that as heav'n whisper'd to the air , the air should to the fire : the drowsie coals no sooner understand the purport of their large command , and that th'officious wind did there attend , it s needful aid to lend , but suddenly they seek out the work they were to go about ; and sparks which had before unactive lain each sep'rate had his portion tane , though scatter'd for a while , design'd to meet again . v. thus far contriv'd , the wary fire thinking how many 't would undoe , fearing their just complaint , and the perpetual restraint men would hereafter put it to ; it winck't , as one would think 't would fain have slept again , had not the cruel wind rose higher , which forc'd the drooping coals revive , to save themselves alive : thus without fresh supply of food , not able to subsist , much lesse resist a breath by which they were so rudely kist , they seiz'd a neighbouring stack of wood ; which strait into one horrid flame did turn , not as it stood design'd to burn : thus while each other they oppose , poor mortals trace the mighty foes , by the vast desolations , each makes where e're he goes . vi. whether dispos'd by too much ●hlegm , or melancholick , that o're loads the heart , that turns sound sleep to an unruly dream , and makes the body with convulsions start ; or whether yet so much belov'd , as by his waiting genius mov'd , suggesting fire to be his phancies theam , that that might work , and he might wake , and all might seem a sympathetick dream , i know not but the man that own'd the wood did wake , ( a seasonable time when life 's at stake ) and so amaz'd did hardly know whether he still did dream or no ; his suddain , and surprising fear that would not give him time to arm himself with thoughts against his harm , quickly turn'd into despair , grief for what 's lost afflicts his mind , glad he could his neighbours call , then love creeps in to what was left behind , and hopes of saving something , though not all ; his passions thus maintaining mutual strife , left him just wit enough to save his life . vii . now uncontroul'd the greedy fire shews its unlimited desire , and though not high enough for sight , makes all the neighbouring tops of houses bright , like the warm guest that takes his journey from the blooming east , suppos'd himself t' appear , when yet beneath our hemisphere , by those who his reflected rayes mistake , and think the sun , and day together break : the watches now in every street eccho the dreadful noyse of fire , which calls with the same energy from bed , as the last trumpet shall the dead , and bids them all draw nigher , the shiv'ring multitudes in bodies meet and some it raiseth by its light , and others by its heat ▪ viii . those sluggards that did longest stay haste to seek the danger out , scarce believing what they heard , ( as truths at distance often turn to doubt ) and still they went , and still they feard , then blam'd their own delay , and wonder'd in their way to meet so many up at work , before 't was break of day : now first the people understood the ill consequence of neighbour-hood against a fires impetuous force , for wise , though weak , defendants better know to tire a lawless over-bearing foe , by tedious marches than by open force . but what hope 's left this enemy to subdue ? whose forces at each house renew , while one another they undoe , whose houses ev'n too many were , and they themselves too few . ix . now all the foolish engines play , and all the water they convey , will not half its thirst allay , so far they are from lessening its heat , they serve but to digest its meat ; and still the surly flame doth fiercer hiss by an antiperistasis ; and with such ease defi'd the smaller conduits in full pride , towards his mortal foe he did in triumph ride ; now london thy astonisht thame ( then which no river lowder sung by fame ) for who knows which most honour doth confer shee on thee , or thou on her having dispatcht part of her watry train as tribute to the usurping ocean , was glad to spare some water more to call them back again , shrinking her head from the affrighted shore , fearing before her flood return'd her darling city would be burn'd . x. when they drew nigh the folding flames . salute and take their prospect o're the thames , when lo upon the further side they a spacious town espi'd , hither they bend , whose rage admits no stay from any thing , to which there seem'd a way , to find out that , with eager pace they did the flying peoples footsteps trace who shun'd their scorching face , and seiz'd the wondrous street which stood , trampling upon the conquer'd flood ; thus busie man intends security ' gainst what may come amiss , though inconveniencie depends , on what most profitable is ; so who endeavoured to provide against the damage of a swelling tide , were almost by a second foe undone , by that which serv'd to fetter one , when glad they would have set the river free t' have swallow'd up the greater enemy , had not the fire at those same ruines staid vvhich though so many years ago , he knew himself had made . xi . though stopt in crossing o're the foaming tide , it gain'd along the river side , and roar'd , while yet the water did but glide ; here it found the richest prey for safety was remov'd away , vvares , whose great worth and weight prolong'd their stay , the persecuting flame the while grew swifter far than they . by this time the vast hollow deep vvas full , yet did its limits keep vast piles of merchandize against the flood even with its surface stood , of such as the best foreign coast or rich america can boast , their owners watch them , and did pray as kind a stream as brought them there , would carry them away . when the expected flood was come some untoucht it rescu'd , some half destroy'd were quencht , and found within her watry womb ; those which it could no way save , had their ashes in a wave , with reverence transported home . xii . it s fury still increas'd , and all houses and churches undistinguisht fall , resolv'd to know no limits now , less than a city wall , still the fuel was remov'd , and still the fire its force improv'd , whose eager and devouring heat into the heart of th' city eat , ( whose appetite no industry could quell ) and when their costly wares were gone , the place they us'd to traffique on , gresham's famous building fell . the fire was now so monstrous grown , it knew no proper fuel of its own , and scarce distinguisht between wood and stone : the advantage stone had over wood , was only that it stood ; and what the founders majesty had wore , now only counterfeited well , what was it self before . as bodies in the dry egyptian sand , upright in their repositories stand , preserv'd by warmth and kept from air , fresh as when living , and as fair ; but once expos'd to outward touch , soon betray their age too much , by crumbling into-dust , and our burnt stone is such . xiii . now with a holy passion fir'd i have vow'd some time to meditate , and think , great paul's upon thy fate , whom all the world , not only we admir'd ; whose lofty and unequall'd spire , suffer'd once before by fire , but that was from an angry lightnings flame , yet howsoe're it came , it were absurd to think it were not so , for what could reach thee from below ? thou , who for ought i see might'st for ever have been free , from any culinary fire , had it not with pains rose higher , only to stare , and to admire ; till it such a pitch had gain'd , that it elementary grew , such as aristotle only faign'd , oh had it been as harmless too ; now air so much with fire did share , that it requir'd an equal care , as 't did from fire before , to keep thee now from air. xiv . the circling flames had taken in all that did about thee stand , before they durst with thee begin , whose structure did a reverend fear command ; as by a subtile enemy places of strength are first survey'd , who the weakest place descry before their batteries are play'd , so it may of thee be said , for that to which the fire did first draw near , doth yet untoucht appear , ( thy sacred altar which could ne're endure ) any fire that was impure : now not thy strong foundation on faith , defended by tradition of books , whose worth and number was so great they will hereafter silence the vaticans like fate , not thy pious prince his care , to have made thee once more fair , could support thy aged head , ( no though thou wert a sacred place ) how foolish then were they who thought , the brutish element was better taught , then they who did themselves thy glory most deface . thus when thy smaller children now were dead , thou thy self didst soon decline into thy humble bed . xv. when great pauls was seen to fall , people bid adieu to all , and what hopes they had , resign'd , for they had little reason sure to think any thing secure when they cast their eyes behind . still it runs , and still it thrives , down to the city gates it drives , one of which was still possest by those who are opprest , with principal and interest . th' other contain'd a desperate crew of thieves and murderers too , their goalers gave them timely liberty , where they imprison'd use to be , the fire it self went free , to these a welcom guest , and only by such miscreants blest , thus on the conquest when the triumph ends a general goal-delivery attends : soon after this , whether with eating tir'd , vvhen all the city now was fir'd , in its own ashes it expir'd , how i can't tell , i only know , it begun strangely , and it ended so . finis . lamentation, mourning, and woe sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish-church of st. martin in the fields, on the 9th day of september : being the next lords-day after the dismal fire in the city of london / by nath. hardy ... hardy, nathaniel, 1618-1670. 1666 approx. 75 kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from 20 1-bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase 1, no. a45552) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set 100973) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, 1641-1700 ; 789:27) lamentation, mourning, and woe sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish-church of st. martin in the fields, on the 9th day of september : being the next lords-day after the dismal fire in the city of london / by nath. hardy ... hardy, nathaniel, 1618-1670. [8], 31 p. printed by tho. newcomb for william grantham, london : 1666. reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p5 using tcp2tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the 25,363 texts created during phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 january 2015. anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p5, characters represented either as utf-8 unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng bible. -n.t. -luke xix, 41 -sermons. fires -england -london. london (england) -history -17th century. 2004-06 tcp assigned for keying and markup 2004-06 apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images 2004-07 judith siefring sampled and proofread 2004-07 judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-10 pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion lamentation , mourning and woe . sighed forth in a sermon preached in the parish-church of st. martin in the fields , on the 9 th day of september . being the next lords-day after the dismal fire in the city of london . by nath. hardy d. d. d. r. chaplain in ordinary to his majesty , and vicar of the said parish-church . lam. 1. 12. is it nothing to you all you that pass by ? behold and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow which is done unto me , wherewith the lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger . london , printed by tho. newcomb for william grantham , at the sign of the black bear in westminster-hall . 1666. to the right worshipful sir thomas adams , knight and baronet . sir , i first preached , and have now published this discourse as a testimony of my sorrow for londons ruines . if the phrase and composure be ( as i am conscious they are ) very defective , my apology is , that it was a time of distraction ; besides , broken language is the best rhetorick upon a mournful occasion : and considering those manifold relations and obligations i have to that once illustrious city , it will not ( i hope ) be looked upon as a presumption , that i have thus publickly expressed my sorrow ; for that cloud of smoke which hath covered her , or rather that flame of fire which hath laid her honour in the dust . london was the place of my birth , baptism , education , and ( excepting those years which i lived in the university of oxford ) in and about the city , hath been the place of my abode and habitation to this day . it is now full twenty and seven years since i entered into holy orders , eighteen whereof i exercised my ministerial function in that one parish church of st. dyonis , which together with many more ( proh dolor ) is now laid waste . and , though i must confess my self highly obliged as in special to many persons of honour and quality , so in general to all sorts of inhabitants in this parish , where by gods providence i now am , and have ( according to my slender ability ) officiated well nigh six years , whose merciful preservation in this late imminent danger , i heartily congratulate , and praise god for : yet i cannot but acknowledge those many and great kindnesses which in those years i received ; and that not only ( though chiefly ) from that particular parish , but several other citizens , as well of the upper , as the lower sort : so that though i wanted not some enemies , i bless god , i found many friends , with whom if i should not affectionately sympathize in this their calamity , i should justly incur the odious brand of ungrateful and obdurate : nay , if i forget thee ( o london ) let my right hand forget her cunning ; if i do not remember thee , let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth . being upon these considerations ( honoured sir ) resolved as to the publication of the sermon , i know not to whom more sutably than your self i should make the dedication ; and that both in reference to my self in particular , and the city in general . among my numerous acquaintance in the city , i have great reason to look upon you as a singular friend , as well as a prime parishioner in that place where i lived so long : nor must i forget to own not only that liberal bounty , those free entertainments , but those sage advices , and forward encouragements which i received from you in the late perilous times , when it was a crime to own a prelatical clergy-man . among the inhabitants of the city , you are the principal mourner . the kingdom calls the city her mother , and the city calls you her father , as being the eldest among the aldermen ; not only in respect of years , but office ; none now surviving who before you had the honour to have the sword carried before them : and who should be chief mourner at the daughters funeral , but her father ? and though i easily believe your particular losses are great , yet i dare say such is your compassion , that you are much more affected with the publick misery , than your own damage ; and such your devotion , that you are most afflicted with those iniquities which have procured this misery . upon this account , i am confident you often turn aside ( in your meditations ) to see this sad fight , and probably have prevented me in what i cannot but take notice of , how within the revolution of less than seven years , we have lived to see a most joyful , and a most doleful sight . the one of the sun breaking forth , the other of the fire breaking out . that of the king in his beauty , this of the city in its ashes . that a representation of heaven , and this of hell. that in the spring of the year 1660. this in the autumn of the year 1666. it cannot be imagined with what gladness of heart all loyal subjects beheld their native lawful king , after a twelve years tedious exile , return to his throne ; and not in an hostile , but amicable manner pass through his chief city to his royal palace , welcomed with the multiplied shouts and acclamations of all sorts . nor can it be expressed with what sadness of heart all good people beheld the flaming fire , as it were a conqueror , riding upon the wings of the wind from street to street , with a triumphant rage through that great city , eating up her habitations , casting down her goodly structures to the earth ; and not ceasing , till he that said to it go , said also to it stay. had the sight of that wonderful and merciful restauration quickned us ( as it ought ) to sutable returns of gratitude and obedience , we probably had never beheld this dreadful and woful desolation . and since the former could not allure us to our duty , i would to god this latter may yet at length affright us from our sins : then i should comfortably hope , what i doubt not we all earnestly desire , a resurrection of this city out of her rubbish , to a more glorious estate than before . which ( worthy sir ) that ( if it be gods blessed will ) your age may be prolonged to see , and thereby prevent the bringing of your grey hairs with sorrow to the grave ; and however , that whensoever you go hence , the blessings of heaven may rest upon the heads of your posterity : and as you have been a vigilant , diligent , prudent and faithful senator in this terrestrial city , so you may ( after a long course finished on earth ) be a triumphant citizen , and have an everlasting habitation in that heavenly city of the living god , where the moth frets not , the rust eats not , the fire consumeth not ; is the uncessant prayer of , sir , your most affectionate friend , nath : hardy . lamentation , mourning and woe . st. luke , cap. 19. ver . 41. and when he was come near , he beheld the city , and wept over it . i have no sooner read the text , but i suppose you all reflect upon the doleful occasion of handling it ; how forcible are right words , saith job ? and much more when they are sutable . the words of the wife ( saith solomon ) are as nails , and as goads , to make a deep impression upon the auditors , but then especially when they are fitted to the season . such is this scripture i have now read , seasonable ; ey ( be it spoken with submission to the divine appointment ) too seasonable , whil'st that late dismal conflagration of our neighbour city calls upon , nay , crieth aloud to us all to tread in the footsteps of our saviours deportment toward jerusalem , who when he came near , beheld the city , and wept over it . caesar said vaingloriously of himself , veni , vidi , vici ; i came , i saw , i overcame . here our evangelist saith of christ , what he did piously , venit , vidit , flevit , he came , he saw , he wept : and these three acts of christ , are the three parts of the text. his approach , when he was come near , his aspect , he behold the city , his tears , and wept over it . these three did one make way for the other , he came near that he might behold , and beholding he weepeth . indeed the last is the principal , to which the two other are preparatory ; and therefore passing through these , i shall chiefly insist upon that . i. the first act here mentioned , is christs coming near . appropinquation is a local motion , wherein there is terminus à quo , a place from which we depart ; and terminus ad quem , a place to which we draw near , and this is here affirmed concerning christ. surely then christs body ( as well as ours ) is circumscribed in one certain place , so as it cannot be simul in utroque termino , in many places at once . to what purpose else those various peregrinations of our saviour , who , as st. peter saith , went about doing good , if he could at once have been in those several places whither he went. and if he could not be at once in many places on earth , much less can he be in heaven and earth together . when he was on earth , he was not in heaven ( saith vigilius ) and now he is in heaven , he is not on earth . and if he cannot be in many , much less can he be in every place ; it being impossible that he should come near to any place , whereas he was there before ; or go from it , since he must be there still ; so that it were easie from this scripture , to confute the multipresence of the romanists , and omnipresence of the lutherans : but controversies ill befit the pulpit at any time , especially in such a dolorous time as this , and therefore i pass it over . and yet i must not leave this first act of christs coming near to jerusalem , till i have taken notice upon what account it was , and what might be the reason of his approach : for , first , jerusalem was at this time a very wicked city , a sink of filth , a den of thieves , and a cage of unclean birds , and therefore ( one would think ) most unfit for the holy iesus to draw nigh to . the voice from heaven said concerning babylon , come out of her ( my people ) not come near to her ; and it is st. pauls question , intending a negation , and thereby a confirmation of the dehortation , what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness ? what communion hath light with darkness ? and what concord hath christ with belial ? but we must know , 1. on the one hand , that as the historian saith of the river dee in wales , that it passeth through a lake called pimble meere , but mingleth not with its waters ; or as the fish , which remaineth fresh , notwithstanding it doth not only swim , but suck in the salt water : so our blessed lord drew near to wicked persons and places , and yet was not defiled or infected by them . he is called by the prophet malachy , the sun of righteousness ; and as the sun , though it cast forth its beams upon the filthy dunghil , receiveth no pollution from it : no more did christ from those noisom places to which he approached ; and , 2. on the other hand , he was sent by his father , especially to the jews , iis primò missus quibus promissus ; and that among others , to discharge the office of a prophet ; nay , in respect of the personal performance of that office , he was not sent but to them . accordingly we find him in the subsequent verses , reproving their iniquity , and foretelling their calamity ; which he could not have done , had he not come near to them ; for this reason he drew near to , and suffered publicans and sinners in jerusalem to draw near to him ; since , as he saith himself , he came to call sinners to repentance . it is not absolutely unlawful for good men to approach wicked places ; and it is not only lawful , but expedient for men of god to converse with that people to whom they are sent , though never so wicked . indeed since it is not with us , as it was with christ ; he was not , but we are too capable of infection ; and more apt to receive evil , than do good ; we have therefore the greater need to be watchful and circumspect : but since the whole need not the physitian , but the sick ; those who are appointed by god to be the physitians of souls , not only may , but ought upon just occasion offered , to draw nigh , and visit the most desperate patients : but , secondly , jerusalem was the place where christ was to suffer . he knew how maliciously they were bent against him , and how greedily they thirsted after his blood , and therefore the greater wonder that he should come near such a people . but the answer is easily returned , he was sent to them , and no dangers could divert him from the errand about which he was sent . thus ought we to run all hazards in the discharge of our duty . it was a great crime in jonah to flee to tarshish , when he was sent by god to nineveh : and it was a singular fortitude in st. paul , to go to those places whither he was sent , though he knew that bonds and afflictions did abide him in every city . we must not needlesly put our selves upon dangers , nor can we take comfort in such sufferings . christ gave leave to his disciples when persecuted in one city , to flie unto another . and wisdom teacheth us , not to draw near to , but avoid those places which threaten our ruine , except we have an express call from heaven , and then piety obligeth us not to consult with flesh and blood ; but as luther , when cited to wormes to answer for himself ( though much disswaded by his friends ) resolved to go thither , though all the tiles of the houses were devils : so ought we to encounter with all perils , not fearing to follow gods call , be the danger never so great ; upon which account it was that christ came near to ierusalem . and yet there was more than this in it , christ did not only approach jerusalem , notwithstanding but because he was , and that he might suffer there . he was as a prophet , so a priest , and such a priest as was to offer himself a sacrifice . now all sacrifices were to be offered at jerusalem , that being the place which god had chosen for that end ; and therefore the time of his offering up being at hand , he cometh near to ierusalem , and coming near , ii. beholds the city , which is his second act . the person here spoken of being god-man , might be said to behold the city at this time with an humane and a divine eye . or if you conceive him here spoken of only as man ; he beheld the city with an eye of sense , and an eye of prophesie . with his bodily eyes he beheld the city , as those did , who speaking of the temple , said , what goodly stones are here ? he saw a beautiful city environed with strong walls , adorned with a magnificent temple , and other stately fabricks , replenished with wealthy citizens , and furnished with all manner of conveniencies : but with the eye of his mind enlightned by divine revelation , he saw this city encompassed with malicious enemies , the walls sacked , houses burnt , inhabitants slain , and not one of those goodly stones left upon another . yea , all this , though not to come to pass till many years after , he saw as certainly and clearly , as if it were then acted before his eyes . to foreknow future contingencies is one of gods peculiars , to whom all things past , present , and to come ; and those not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , necessary , but casual are at once obvious : but yet there were men of god to whom he was pleased to impart the knowledge of what was to come to pass , according to that of amos , surely the lord god will do nothing , but he revealeth his secrets to his servants the prophets . indeed this light of immediate revelation ceased after the sacred canon was compleated ; and though god still can if he please , yet it is that which he seldom , if at all , hath done since ; and therefore those who pretend upon the account of any extraordinary inspiration to foresee and foretell the ruine of places , are to be looked upon either as subtle-headed impostors , or at best , giddy-headed zelots . nor are we to give any greater regard to our prognosticating astrologers , who presume to read that in the stars , which god never wrote there ; and abuse them to that end for which god never appointed them . how fallible , conjectural , and uncertain that fore knowledge is which they have by this means , appeareth not only in that the events which they foretell do oft-times prove contrary , but that as to the most remarkable accidents which befall ( such as the late dismal conflagration ) they are usually silent . and yet ( my beloved ) god hath not left us altogether destitute of means whereby we may at least probably foresee misery and calamity coming upon the places where we live . the prudent man ( saith solomon once and again ) foreseeth the evil , and in this respect his eyes are said to be in his head , the upper part of his body ; and as they that are on the upper ground can see afar off , so doth the wise man , whil'st the fools eyes are in his feet ; nay , he is ready-to stumble upon , and fall into danger before he will see it . this seeing eye , as well as the hearing ear , is that which god is ready to confer ; and therefore if any man lack wisdom , let him ask of god ( saith st. james ) who , as solomon assureth us , layeth up wisdom for the righteous ; and upon our asking will lay it out upon us . if you shall enquire yet more particularly , how by the eye of prudence a man may foresee evil to come ? i answer , 1. by considering the several threats which god hath denounc't in his word against sinners ; for since gods threatnings are no less true than his promises , and though the sentence be not speedily executed , yet it can by no means but repentance be prevented ; the prudent man may foresee , that sooner or later the evils threatned , will fall upon them that go on in their sins . 2. by comparing the city , or place where he liveth , with those cities and places which are recorded in holy writ , as the instances of gods vengeance : for since ( as st. peter saith ) of the cities of sodom and gomorrah , it is no less true of the rest , that they were made an ensample to them who should after live ungodly , we may hence infer , that though not the same , yet some calamity or other will befall wicked places now , as well as then ; and , 3. lastly , by observing the method of divine dispensation in his iudgments . how usually he first striveth with mercies , then with judgments ; how he giveth warning first , and then striketh ; how he proceeds from corrective , to destructive punishments ; we may foresee that that people , upon whom mercies , and warnings , and lesser judgments have had no kindly influence , are near to destruction . and oh how happy were it , if we would thus behold desolation before it come ; for then perhaps we may prevent it , and never behold the desolation : or if not , in respect of the community , yet according to that of solomon , the prudent foreseeth the evil , and hideth himself , we may prevent our own ruine , and provide for our safety ; or if not so , yet according to that known saying , praemeditati mali mollis ictus , evil foreseen is better born ; we shall the more easily sustain it when it cometh : but alas , such is our iniquity , as well as infelicity , we will not believe till we feel , nor see till it is too late to avoid ; and then we sigh forth the fools language , non putâram , i did not think this mischief would have come . it is observed of some creatures which have only sense , that they foresee evils by a natural instinct ; swallows the fall of a ruinous house , cranes the coming of a storm , and such like ; and yet we who are endued with reason , will not take notice of approaching judgments . oh let us at length be wise , and imitate our blessed lord as far as we can , in foreseeing those evils which threaten us , though we cannot with that certainty which he did behold jerusalem in ashes . iii. and now it is high time to take a view of that influence which this approach and aspect had upon him , and that is expressed in the last act , he wept over it . christum flevisse saepe , risisse nunquam legimus . it is not unfitly observed , that we read often of christs tears , but never of his laughter . holcot reckons up seven times of his weeping , at his birth , circumcision , for judas , lazarus , over jerusalem , in the garden , and on the cross. it is not improbable , but that , as other infants , he at his birth did salute the world with tears , and that the pain of circumcision did extract tears from him ; but neither of these are mentioned in holy writ . it is said indeed in respect of judas , he was troubled in spirit , not that he wept , though not improbably that trouble might express it self by weeping . three times are expressed , that for lazarus by one evangelist , st. john ; this over ierusalem by another , st. luke ; the other is mentioned by no evangelist , but the apostle st. paul in his epistle to the hebrews , and yet whether those tears refer to the garden , or the cross , or both , is a question ; it is very likely , he who sweat drops of blood , at the same time shed tears ; and it as likely that his prayers on the cross were accompanied with tears : it is certain , in the one place or other , or both , he wept ; his tears for lazarus , were the tears of a friend ; those on the cross , the tears of a priest ; these over ierusalem , the tears of a prophet ; for as a prophet he beheld ierusalems ruine , and beholding , weepeth . it is a good observation of origen concerning our saviour , omnes beatitudines quas in evangelio docuit , exemplo sirmavit . he confirmed by his pattern all those beatitudes which he preached in his sermon : he was meek , and poor in spirit , pure and merciful , the great peacemaker , and a sufferer for righteousness sake ; and that he was a mourner , appeareth here by his weeping . for the fuller discussion whereof , i shall desire you to take notice of these four circumstances , who , when , over whom , and for what : and , 1. who it was that wept , christ the son of the living god made man , indeed his very weeping bespeaketh him a man , and that not in appearance only , but reality . a phantasm cannot weep , a picture cannot grieve ; so that from hence , we may infer a strong argument against the apollinarian hereticks , who imagined , that christ had but an imaginary body : nor doth this only argue him a man , but such a man as was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , subject to the same passions with us . tears are not only indices naturae , but doloris , testimonies of humane nature ; but of humane passion , particularly that of grief and sorrow , whence it followeth . that the passions of the mind are not in themselves sinful , else the holy and undefiled jesus who knew no sin ( to wit , experimentally and practically ) could not have been subject to them . the truth is , they are very apt ( like the wind , to be boystrous , on in a wrong corner ) to exceed in their measure , or err in their object , and so degenerate into sins and vices ; love into lust , anger into rage , and grief into impatiency : but in themselves they are not sinful , as being the products of nature , not of the corruption of it . that stoical precept of putting off humane affections , as it is impossible , so it is not necessary were in possible . we need not banish , but only imprison our passions ; not extirpate , but regulate them ; for christ himself gave various expressions of several passions , and here in particular of his grief by his tears . besides , this notion of the who in my text as to his being a man , and that subject to passion , i must not forget to mind you that he was a prophet , a man of god ; and being to utter a sad message , delivers it with tears . the priests and prophets of the lord are resembled to eyes , and those eyes said to be like the fish-pools of heshbon , to note that they should be watry eyes distilling with tears , in which respect , among the many ceremonies of the romish ordination , an handkerchief is given to the person ordained for wiping away those tears which should continually run down . indeed tears well become us in all our offices . do we pray for the people ? our prayers and tears do well together . let the priests weep between the porch and the altar , and say , spare thy people , o lord. do we instruct the ignorant , or comfort the dejected , or reprove the sinner , or threaten the obstinate ! we should express our pity by our tears . many walk ( saith s. paul ) of whom i have told you often , and now tell you weeping , that they are enemies of the cross of christ. and here our saviour being to denounce gods judgements against , weepeth over jerusalem . 2. the next considerable circumstance is the when : and that , as appeareth by the preceding context , was inter acclamatioues , in a time of joy . when the people welcomed him with shouts , he approacheth them with sighs . he would let us see how little he was taken with the pomp and splendor of the world , and intimateth a special act of prudence , namely , to mingle our joyes with some sorrowful thoughts , which may serve as a check to their exuberancy . it is observable how king david in the very same psalm where he speaketh of his still waters , green pastures , full cup , spread table , taketh occasion to mention the shadow of death . solomon tells us , there is a time to laugh , and a time to weep ; we may carry it further , the time of laughing is a fit time of weeping , lest we should laugh too much . it is the usual dispensation of divine providence , to make all our earthly comforts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , bitter-sweets , checker work , black and white , in our most prosperous estate , sending some cross event , which may be an allay to our joy ; and it is the dictate of humane prudence , to present to our selves some sorrowful thoughts in the time of our greatest mirth . we may observe when men laugh most heartily , tears stand in their eyes : we have often beheld a showre of rain fall in a sun-shine ; we use to eat our sweet meat with sharp sauce : thus let us intermingle something of sadness with our delights , after the example of our saviour , who wept at a time of the greatest solemnity of joy , when the multitudes that went before , and followed after , cryed , hosanna to the son of david . 3. the next circumstance to be discussed , is the whom : and that is expressed in the text to be the city , to wit , of jerusalem . and that which i would here take notice of , is the enmity which jerusalem had to him , and the love which he shewed to jerusalem : doloris may stand in the poets verse , as well as timoris , and it is as true in the sense , love is full of grief , as well as fear : when he wept for lazarus , the jews said , see how he loved him ; may we not say the same here : see how he loved the city over which he weepeth ; and how much this city hated him , appeareth by that bloudy murther which in a few days after this , was by them committed upon him : he commiserateth them who had no compassion for him ; nay , he sheddeth tears for them that shed his bloud . it was his precept in the sermon on the mount , given in charge to all his disciples , love your enemies ; and lo , here he practiseth it , and well doth it become us to follow both his command , and his example . indeed we read in the psalms , the righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance ; but that is on the churches implacable enemies ; otherwise it is solomons caveat , rejoyce not when thine enemy falleth ; nor is there any thing more truly christian , than not onely not to rejoyce , but mourn for our enemies misfortune : and let me tell you , it is the best way of revenge , when our enemy hungers , to feed him , when he thirsts , to give him drink ; not onely to be sorry for , but to succour him , since hereby we heap coals of sire upon his head . thus let our love to our enemy , be the love of the heart , not feigned , but sincere , not counterfet , but cordial , the love of the tongue in praying and blessing , the love of the hand in doing good , and the love of the eye in weeping for them that hate , that curse , that do evil to us , and that when misery cometh upon them . 4. there is onely one question more to be resolved , and that is , for what christ weepeth in reference to jerusalem ? and that will appear by the following context , to be her sins and her sufferings . of both a word . 1. he weepeth for her sins , in that she did not know the things of her peace , as appeareth in the next verse ; nay , as we find in that paralel place , that she stoned the prophets , and killed those who were sent unto her with the glad tidings of peace ; nay , not onely the wickedness which she had , but which he foresaw she would commit against himself , in putting to shame and death , him who was the lord of life and glory ; and that notwithstanding all her wickedness , she remained secure and obstinate , according as it is said elsewhere by s. mark , that christ looked round about the people , and was grieved for the hardness of their hearts . the wickedness of bad men ought to be the sorrow of good men , and when they are so wicked as not to grieve for themselves , they grieve so much the more for them . lots righteous soul was vexed ( as s. peter tells us ) with the unclean conversation of the sodomites : david saith of himself , rivers of waters run down mine eyes , because they keep not thy law. and again , i beheld the transgressors , and was grieved : s. paul , weepeth for those among the philippians , whose god was their belly : and s. hierom said to an impenitent wretch , hoc plango quod teipsum non plangis , this i bemoan that thou dost not bemoan thy self . this is that which holy men always do upon a threefold account . of piety and devotion towards god , whose name is blasphemed and dishonoured by their violation and contempt of his law. of pity and compassion towards the sinners , who are running headlong to perdition , and perceive it not . of charity to themselves , in avoiding hereby the guilt of other mens sins ; which the very not grieving , contracts upon those that behold them , and also escaping the punishment which those sins bring upon the places where they live , for so we read of a mark set upon the mourners for the abominations in jerusalem . and if upon these accounts we must weep for the sins of others , much more ought we every one for his own sins ; in this indeed we could not have our saviour for an example , who had no sins of his own to weep for , since he could not have been a saviour , had he been a sinner . but ( he excepted ) there was never any who had not sins enow of his own to bewail ; and truly , in vain doth he pretend to be troubled at the faults of others , who yet indulgeth to his own ; nay , hovv can he bemoan another , vvho doth not pity himself ; or vvill any man believe that he is offended at the dishonour done to god by others , vvho yet vvilfuly dishonours him himself ? and therefore , as our saviour exhorts , first to cast the beam out of our own eye , so let us be persvvaded , first to repent of our own sins , and then to weep over the sins of others . 2. but secondly , christ wept over jerusalems sufferings : whence observe . 1. others passion should move our compassion , and vve should mingle the wine of their afflictions vvith the water of our tears . there is no duty to which we are more frequently exhorted than that of mercy ; and what is misericordia , but miseria ad cor ; mercy , but the laying anothers miseries to heart . it was st. pauls precept , weep with them that weep ; and it was his practice , who is weak , and i am not weak . that golden rule , of doing to others , as we would they should do to us , holds true , as in many other particulars , so in this , that since we desire to be commiserated our selves , we should commiserate others . thus job , who crieth out , have pity on me , o you my friends , have pity on me ; saith also of himself , did not i weep for him that was in trouble ? was not my soul grieved for the poor ? there is nothing more humane , than for one man to sympathize with another . it is observed among swine and bees , unâ agrotante lament antur omnes ; if one be sick , the rest are sorry ; but much more sutable is it to our humane nature , and therefore cruebty is called inhumanity ; nay , there is nothing more divine , more christian than this ; and therefore st. paul calls upon us , to put on bowels of mercies as the elect of god , chosen to be his children , and consequently to resemble him ; upon which account , it is christs argument , be you merciful , as your father which is in heaven is merciful : nor was there any virtue did more illustriously shine forth in christ himself , an instance whereof he giveth us here in weeping over the city . 2. private , but much more publick calamities require our sympathy ; for such was this , not over a particular person or family , but a city . we use to say , bonum quò communius eo melius ; good is the better , by how much more it is communicated ; and evil , the further it spreads , the worse . it is an undeniable maxim , the whole is greater than any part ; and consequently , as the safety of the whole ought to be first preferred , so the calamity of it ought to be most condoled . every good man is of a publick spirit , and therefore deeply affected with common miseries : a few drops of water may quench a spark , but many buckets will not easily extinguish a great flame . in times of general calamity , we may well wish with jeremy , that our head were waters , and our eyes fountains of tears to weep day and night . 3. not only when we our selves are fellow-sufferers , but when we are only spectators of , we ought to be concerned in others miseries . our blessed lord was to ascend to heaven , and sit down at his fathers right hand long before the time of jerusalems misery , and yet it becometh the object of his sorrow . nehemiah was himself in the kings palace , a principal officer , a great favourite ; and yet by reason of jerusalems calamity , he sat down , and wept , and mourned . when we our selves are at liberty , we must remember them that are in bonds , as if we were bound with them ; nor must our own prosperity make us forgetful of others adversity . 4. all sorts of miseries , but especially grievous desolations , call for a lamentation ; no less was this which befell jerusalem , when not one stone left upon another which should not be thrown down . it was queen hesters plea to ahashuerus , we are sold , i and my people to be destroyed , and to perish ; if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen , i had held my tongue . look away from me ( saith the prophet esay ) i will weep bitterly ; and why so bitterly , for it is a day of trouble ( and that no small or slight trouble , but ) of treading down , and perplexity , breaking down the walls , and crying to the mountains . it is a doleful sight to behold the ship tossed up and down by the boystrous waves , but to see it sink into the sea , or dash in pieces against the rock , may well cause an outery . the deeper the wound is , the greater need of washing it with our tears ; and the heavier the burden , the greater need of our hands to help to bear it up . 5. lastly , if the foresight of misery when yet it is afar off , much more when it is near ; and if when it is near , much more the sight of it when actually brought upon a person or people , ought to move our pity and compassion . when hazael said to elisha , why weepeth my lord ? his answer was , because i know the evil thou wilt do to the children of israel : and much like was the reason of our saviours weeping here , who knew the evil which the romans would do to jerusalem : but when the evil is really done before our eyes , good reason our eye should affect our hearts with sorrow , and our hearts fill our eyes with tears . this , this , is that ( my beloved ) which i am this day to press upon my self and you , in reference to that doleful destruction which hath actually befallen our ierusalem , the once renowned , but now desolate city of london ; and her inhabitants that being near , and having beheld its conflagration , we would weep over it . it is not many weeks since we kept a joyful day of thanksgiving for the good hand of our god upon his majesties naval forces , in causing their enemies to flee before them ; and great reason we had to rejoyce in so seasonable a victory ! but alas ! the righteous god hath now turned our laughing into mourning , and our singing into sighing , whil'st we have been forced to flee from our houses . we read of marcus marcellus , that having besieged , and taken the famous city of syracus , he wept to see such citizens become his captives and slaves . and it is storied of titus vespastan , who was the instrument of gods vengeance upon this city in my text , that he did not invade it without tears ; and truly that late burning of the ships and goods , and houses of our enemies , though it was very justifiable , as an act of military iustice , done by persons empowred with royal authority for the avenging of former injuries ; and very acceptable , as a weaking of our enemies power to do future : yet as it was an act which brought ruine and destruction upon many private persons and families , some of whom might be in some sort innocent as to the publick quarrel ; it was matter of compassionate grief : but oh then what sadness should sit upon our spirits , whil'st we behold so great a destruction at home , a fire in our own bowels ! true it is , we of these parts have very great cause of joy in our particular preservation , since we deserved no less than they to have been devoured by the flame ; but to use the psalmists language , we have cause to rejoyce with trembling , lest the like misfortune befall our houses ; ey , and to rejoyce with weeping , because it hath befallen so many of our friends , neighbours , and fellow-citizens . indeed had it been a particular house and family , or some village , hamlet , town , or burrough , it would have been deplorable ; but magnum momentum est in nomine urbis , saith the orator : there is a great deal of weight in the name of a city , and consequently the ruine of it most lamentable . as among stars , there are of the first and second , and third magnitude ; and among ships , of the first , second and third rate : so among cities , there are greater and less ; and surely by how much the greater the city , the sadder the loss . what tears then , yea , rivers of tears ( were they like the goodly thames which runs by ) can be sufficient to bemoan the downfall of this so ancient , and so eminent a city . this city was called ( when in her glory ) by ammianus , marcellinus , augusta , the stately magnificent city ; but how is she now become angusta ? this large volume in folio abridged almost to an octavo , there being , as is probably computed , scarce a sixth part remaining within the walls . the shape of the city hath been observed to be like that of a laurel , and it was a good wish of him who desired that like the laurel , it might alwayes be green and flourishing : but this sad fire hath spoiled her of her greenness , and she is now become as it were one brand , withered , scorched , nay , burnt to ashes . one of the names anciently given to her was troja nova , and her citizens called troynovanters ; and behold now she is too like old troy in her constagration . i pray god it may not be said , i am seges ubi troja fuit , corn groweth where new , as well as old troy stood . chronologers tell us , i hat london was 354 years older than rome ; and tacitus speaking of her above 1500 years ago , calleth her , londinum copid negotiarum maxime celebre , a very famous place for merchants ; ever since which time she was rising higher and higher in splendor and glory : but alas ! in a few dayes she is spoiled of all that beauty she had been advancing so many hundred years . we have not ( i suppose ) forgot that fatal blow by fire and gun-powder given to that ship which did wear her name ; but the loyalty of many worthy citizens in one year repaired that loss , by building a better , now deservedly called the loyal london . but who can tell how many years may pass before this city of london attain to her pristine lustre ! though yet i will not despair , but that in gods good time she may become more illustrious than before . a late writer having first given a full and particular account of this city , goeth on to parallel it ; not only with all the cities of these three kingdoms , but of the whole world , and prefers it before them : for having reckoned up about twenty several kinds of ornaments belonging to a city , he proveth by an induction of particulars , that though in some one or few of those ornaments , many other cities out-go her , yet , all taken together , she surpassed them all . and to all those excellencies which he mentioneth , i shall add one , in which i am sure no city could equalize her , the number of her learned , religious and painful preachers ; upon which account , the title which the city of quinzie in china attributed to her self ( for her high walls ) might have been given her , she was an heavenly city ; or to use our saviours language of capernaum , a city lifted up to heaven . and now who can refrain from weeping , to see this city almost stripped of all her ornaments , and her honour laid in the dust ? let the merchants weep for the downfall of that royal exchange ( where they used to drive on their mutual commerce ) with the several wharfs and keyes , which were so commodious for landing their goods . let the several companies weep for the ruine of their halls , where they were wont to meet each other in love and amity . let the poor orphans weep for the loss of that hospital , where so many thousands of them have been nourished and educated . let the priests weep , not as of old , between the porch and the altar ; but that now there are so many churches , where there is neither porch nor altar to weep between . let the parishioners weep , that they have now neither churches nor preachers ; whil'st those are so demolished as unfit for use , and these , as well as themselves , forced to look abroad for shelter . finally , let all the inhabitants of this city , and her adjacent parts , weep to consider how many families have not where to hide their heads , but are scattered up and down the fields for want of their habitations : yea , how many wealthy citizens are very much impoverished , and some of them brought to a morsel of bread . nor do i only call upon the city her self , but the court , the countrey , the whole kingdom , to weep over the cities destruction ; and that not only in regard of the particular losses which several persons throughout the kingdom undergo upon this account , but of the concern which the misfortune of this city is to king and kingdom . the city of london was as it were the dominical letter , by which the whole nation reckoned how the year would go about ; or as the golden number , by which we were wont to cast up our accounts . it was the saying of a judicious forreigner , that england might rather be said to be in london , than london in england . sure i am , the welfare of england was very much concerned in londons prosperity . some have enviously resembled her to the spleen , whose high swelling made the rest of the body lean : but i doubt we shall find , she may more truly be compared to the stomack , and the apologue made good ; whil'st the stomack wants supply , the rest of the members cannot thrive . if england be as the heavens , london was as the sun in those heavens ; must not darkness needs cover the whole heavens , when the sun is so much eclipsed ? if england be as the ring of gold , london was as the diamond , how little is the value of the ring , when the diamond is , if not wholly lost , yet very much cracked ? if england be as a goodly tree , london was as the root ; and when the root is withered , how can the tree flourish ? london was wont to be called camera regis , the kings chamber ; ey , and it might have been called the kings coffer , since besides the great income which her custom , excise and chimnies brought to the crown , she was ready to fill ▪ his hands with present coin upon all occasions : well may the king weep , nay , we need not call upon him ; i would to god all his subjects were as deeply sensible of this sad blow as he. london is called in the law , cor reipublicae & totius regni epitome , the heart of the commonwealth , and epitome of the whole kingdom . and she is no less justly , than usually stiled the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , mother-city of the kingdom : well may all the daughter-cities , yea , all the people of the land take up a bitter wailing for this blow , which hath as it were stab'd them at the heart , and killed their mother . ey and especially at such a time as this , when , by reason of our forreign war , her assistance was so useful . sad indeed , to have the milch cow dry , when most need of milk ; and the cloud vanish , when most want of rain ; yea , as it were , the fountain to be empty , when most occasion for water . how stupid is that man ? how hard is that heart , which these considerations do not affect ? and yet this is not all , since the doleful influences of this calamity , in some sort , reach not only to the whole kingdom , but to all the protestant churches . there have not wanted daring prognosticators , who have presumed to foretell the destruction of rome , and the downfall of the pope this year ; no doubt , if they repent not of their superstitions and idolatries , vengeance will pursue them ; but it is not for us to know the times , nor to build positive predictions upon our interprepretations of dark prophecies : in the mean time we sadly behold the most famous protestant city of the world , become an heap of rubbish . i easily believe , our romish enemies rejoyce at this flame , and cry among themselves , o pulchrum spectaculum ! o goodly sight ! and perhaps our protestant adversaries rejoyce also ; but i doubt they will have little cause for it , when they weigh all things in a right balance . whither by that babylon mentioned in the revelation be understood pagan or papal rome , i shall not now dispute ; but sure i am , all protestant princes and churches have reason to make the like lamentation over london , which is said to be made over babylon , alas , alas , that great city which was clothed in sine linnen and purple , and scarlet , with gold and pearls , and precious stones ; for in one hour ( at most a few dayes ) she is made desolate ! all this while i have only set before you the sadness of the ruine , together with the doleful effects which attend it ; but now give me leave to enlarge , and increase your sorrow , by minding you of the causes , as well as the effects , entreating you to consider by whom , and for what it is , that this great desolation is befallen this great city . we read in the book of job , that the fire of god sell from heaven , and consumed his sheep . and god threatneth by his prophet amos against damascus , gaza , &c. that he would send a fire which should devour their palaces . and surely no other was this fire which hath laid waste so many beautiful churches , goodly fabricks and houses , than the fire of god , a fire of his sending . if there were any sons of the coal who kindled , or fomented the flame , yet they were the rod of gods anger , and the fire-balls in their hand his indignation ; and i both pray and hope , that if there were any such rods , they may themselves be cast into the fire , and receive their deserved punishment for so horrid a villany . if it were an accidental fire , occasioned by negligence and inanimadvertency , yet even that casualevent was of divine appointment : nor was it only the hand , but a special , signal hand of god , which appeareth among other things , chiefly in the concurrent wind by which the fire was carried on with an impetuous violence , for who was it but god , who was pleased at once both to stop the windows of heaven that it rained not , and brought forth the wind out of his treasuries , that it continued , till the fire had done that work which he determined should come to pass . and as we must acknowledge it was the merciful and powerful word of our god , which said to the fire ( as he doth to the sea ) hitherto thou shalt come , and no further : so it was no other than the angry and revengeful hand of god which caused the fire ( with the wind ) to bring upon the city such a generally destructive calamity . upon this consideration , it will be fit for us , as we look upon the burning to be the effect of gods wrath , to bewail the sins which have incensed it , and thereby procured this constagration : so that whereas all this while i have called upon you for tears of compassion , i must now exhort you to tears of compunction . i do not design ( beloved ) to upbraid london in this day of her calamity , far be it from me ; but i think it a very fit season for london to be put in mind of her iniquity . i would not confine the sins which have deserved this devastation only to london , nay , rather enlarge the accusation against the whole kingdom ; and as both prince and people will find themselves concerned in the sad effects of the flame , so all have reason to charge themselves with the kindling it . but as the judgment is fallen more immediately and most heavily upon the city ; so doubtless it concerneth the city more especially to remember and bewail her own sins : and whereas there were several parties , and men of various perswasions in that once populous city , i could heartily wish , that instead of throwing dirt in each others faces , they would throw each the first stone at themselves ; and instead of railing and reviling , they would all of them with weeping eyes bemoan first their own sins , and then the sins of one another . we read of josephs brethren , when their brother had put them in ward , they said one to another , we are verily guilty concerning our brother , in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us , and we would not hear ; therefore is this distress come upon us . i would to god it might be so with all the inhabitants of this city , now that so great distress is come upon us , to hear the voice of conscience , which if not quite seared , will speak at such a time , and to say one to another , we are verily guilty of these and these sins . now that god hath overthrown some among us , as god overthrew sodom and gomorrah , it is time surely for those who have been guilty of sodoms sins , to accuse themselves for their pride , fulness of bread , abundance of idleness , and not strengthning the hands of the needy . now that so many houses of god are burnt up , and laid waste in the city , and their teachers are removed from them ; it is time for those to bethink themselves , who either out of prophaneness have neglected , or out of schism vilified the houses of god ; and if not like this city of jerusalem killed and stoned , yet disheartned and contemned those who were sent unto them . now that many of our wealthy citizens are much weakned and impoverished in their estates , it is time for them to call to mind , how forward they were to part with their wealth for raising a rebellious war against their soveraign , which at last most tragically ended in his murder . now that such a well-ordered society ( as the city of london was ) is broken , and neighbors and friends are scattered up and down in several parts , and that the fire hath run through , and thrown down her goodly structures , it is a fit season for those cursed incendiaries to condemn themselves , who delighted in division , made wide breaches in church and state , between the king and his people ; and when time was , set the whole kingdom on flames ; yea , i fear still would , had they the like opportunity . now that their shops and tables , chambers and houses are demolished , their wares and goods either removed or consumed , it concerneth those to call themselves to an account , who have sequestred and plundered their neighbors goods and houses , and lands , ey , and those also who have kept houses of riot , chambers of wantonness , tables of surfeit , and shops of lying , deceit and perjury . this , this is that ( my brethren ) which the lords voice crieth at this time to the city , and which he expects from the inhabitants thereof , that we should every one so seriously and speedily reflect on his own sins , as to bewail them with proportionable grief ; and so much the rather now , because we did it not before , not this last year , when his hand of pestilence was so heavy upon us , and we so insensible of it . then he consumed our persons by the burning plague , and now our houses with the burning fire . then he removed us from our habitations , now he hath taken away our habitations from us ; and because there was not enough weeping then , therefore there should be the more weeping now . to draw to an end , i have i think said enough by this time to put you upon sprinkling your heads with ashes , girding your loins with sackcloth , filling your eyes with tears , and breaking your hearts with sorrow ; but i must withall tell you , that all is not done , when this is done . our weeping of compassion must be attended with a ready contribution towards their relief whom this fire hath undone . i hope there are not , and yet i would there were not any so cruel as to exact upon their necessity , who come to hire lodgings or houses of them , this were to add affliction to the afflicted ; nay , rather use them kindly : and to those who are not able to hire , give entertainment ; yea , let us willingly embrace whatsoever overtures may be proposed for repairing the breaches and raine of our metropolis . our weeping of compunction must be accompanied with reformation . oh let the heat of that flame not only thaw our frozen hearts into tears of godly sorrow , but melt away the dross of our corruption ; that the fire which was consuming to our houses , may be as a refiners fire unto our lives . let us pull down the strong holds of atheism and prophaness , luxury and uncleanness , blow up the turrets of pride and ambition , envy and faction ; burn up the thorns and bryars of hatred and malice , covetousness and oppression , the chaffe and rubbish of all manner of wickedness ; that so god may be entreated to spare the remnant of our habitations , and make up the ruines of those that are demolished , to give us beauty for ashes , and the oyle of gladness for the spirit of heaviness , when we shall behold a new london , ( like the phenix ) rise more gloriously out of the ashes of the old . amen , amen . finis . notes, typically marginal, from the original text notes for div a45552-e2780 chap. 6. 25. eccles. 12. 11. acts 10. 38. revel . 18. 4. 2 cor. 6. 14 , 15. mal. 4. 2. luke 15. 1. mat. 19. 13. mat. 9. 12. jonah 1. 3. acts 20. 22 , 23. mat. 10. 23. luke 21. 5. chap. 3. 7. prov. 22. 3. 23. 12. eccles. 2. 14. james 1. 5. prov. 2. 7. 2 pet. 2. 6. prov. 22. 3. john 13. 21. chap. 11. 35. heb. 5. 7. cant. 7. 4. joel 2. 17. phil. ●● . 18. ver . 36 , 37. ps. 23. 5. eccles. 3. 4. res est soliciti plena timoris amor . ovid. john 11. 37. matth. 5. 44 , psal. 58. 10. prov. 24. 17. rom. 12. 20. ver . 42 , 43 , 44. matth. 21. 37. mark 3. 5. 2 pet. 2. 8. ps. 119. 136. 158. ezek 9. 4. matth. 7. 5. rom. 12. 15. 2 cor. 11. 27. matth. 7. 12. job 19. 21. 32. 25. coloss. 3. 12. luke 6. 36. jer. 9. 1. nehem. 1. 4. hester 7. 4. isa. 22. 4. 2 kings 8. 12. psal. 2. 6. cic. howels , lond : matth. 11. 23. rev. 18. 16. chap. 1. 16. chap. 1. 4. 7. 12 , 16. isa. 10. 3. job 38. 12. gen. 42. 12. amos 4. 11. ezek. 16. 46. 