GOD'S TERRIBLE VOICE IN THE CITY 1722 THOMAS VINCENT [PLAGUE - GREAT FIRE OF LONDON]

[VINCENT, THOMAS]. God's Terrible Voice in the City: Wherein are Set Forth I. The Sound of the Voice, in a Narration of the Two Late Dreadful Judgments of Plague and Fire, Inflicted Upon the City of London; the Former in the Year 1665, the Latter in the Year 1666. II. The interpretation of the Voice; Discovering, 1. The Cause of These Judgments, With a Catalogue of London's Sins. 2. The Design of These Judgments, With an Enumeration of the Duties God Calls for by This Terrible Voice. By Thomas Vincent. With a Preface by the Reverend Mr. John Evans. London: Printed for John Clark, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry near Cheapside, 1722.

REPRINT. Leather-bound, hardcover, duodecimo (16.5 x 10 x 2 cm.), pp. [14], 261, [1] publisher's advertisements. English text, with a preface by the Reverend Mr. John Evans. Bound in full calf, title within double-line border, decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Condition: GOOD. Binding secure, having been re-spined retaining the original boards. The covers are scuffed and rubbed to the extremities. Contents complete but variably foxed and toned.  

Notes: Early reprint edition of Thomas Vincent's very scarce sermon preached after the Great Plague, in which he describes the plague as a manifestation of God's wrath. Puritan minister Thomas Vincent lived in London throughout the plague, with seven of his own household dying as a result of it. In this sermon, Vincent uses the imagery of the Biblical passage Isaiah 29:6 to warn his audience that the Plague is a manifestation of God's wrath, and calls upon his listeners to repent and turn to God in order to escape his judgment. Vincent's sermon was widely circulated in print, and seen as a powerful example of the Puritan preaching style, which emphasised the authority and majesty of God, and the importance of personal conversion and religious devotion.