Item #3127 A Discourse Upon the Great Fire of London, in the Year, 1666. D. Jones.
A Discourse Upon the Great Fire of London, in the Year, 1666.

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A Discourse Upon the Great Fire of London, in the Year, 1666.

Boston: Sold by Thomas Bromfield, next to the Two Sugar-Loaves, in King-street, [1760]. 8vo, recent plain blue wrappers. 24 pp., title-page woodcut and tailpiece on p. 24.

A Boston printing of this English sermon citing the Great Fire of 1666 as an example of the wrath of God to be avoided through “true Repentance.” “He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Lord says unto him by my mouth. It is of the Lord’s Mercy that we are not all consumed. It is of the Lord’s Mercy that we are not all burned. It is of the Lord’s Mercy that all our Houses, and Goods, and Wives and Children, and our selves too, are not now made a Prey to that devouring Element, which, as upon this Day, did once bring our glorious City into Ashes, and buried it in its own Ruins.” With a woodcut on the title-page depicting a minister (or gentlemen, at any rate) consoling a weeping woman, and a tailpiece depicting a man and a woman separately at their Bibles. According to the AAS this pamphlet was advertised in the Evening Post, Boston, on June 2, 1760. The catalog entry further notes that their copy includes a manuscript note in the hand of Isaiah Thomas: “Printed in Boston by Fowle & Draper, 1760.” Ownership inscriptions of John Winslow and M. A. Winslow at head of title-page.

REFERENCES: Evans 8628.

CONDITION: Good, occasional foxing, neatly repaired tear slightly into text on one leaf.

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