Shalahvatih or, The burning of London in the year 1666. Commemorated and improved in a CX. discourses, meditations, and contemplations. Divided into four parts, treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment. II. The natural causes of fire, morally applyed. III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire. IV. Counsels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment. By Samuel Rolle, minister of the Word, and sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge

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  • Shalahvatih or, The burning of London in the year 1666. Commemorated and improved in a CX. discourses, meditations, and contemplations. Divided into four parts, treating of I. The sins, or spiritual causes procuring that judgment. II. The natural causes of fire, morally applyed. III. The most remarkable passages and circumstances of that dreadful fire. IV. Counsels and comfort unto such as are sufferers by the said judgment. By Samuel Rolle, minister of the Word, and sometime Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge
  • Preliminary discourses: and meditations of the sins for which God hath first and last brought the judgment of fire; Physical contemplations; of the nature, and natural-causes of fire, morally applied; Burning of London in the year 1666; Sixty one meditations, and reflections upon the most remarkable passages and circumstances of the late dreadful fire; Twenty seven meditations consisting of counsel and comfort to direct and support Christians under outward troubles
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Imprint
London: printed by R[obert]. I[bbitson]. for Nathaniel Ranew, and Jonathan Robinson, 1667.
Publication year
1667
ESTC No.
R21820
Grub Street ID
92898
Description
[28], 128, [4], 220, [4], 144 p., [1] folded leaf of plates ; 8°.
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First word of title in Hebrew characters

Printer's name from Wing CD

With an engraved frontispiece (plate)

The first leaf is blank

Part 1, "Preliminary discourses: and meditations of the sins for which God hath first and last brought the judgment of fire" (a5r), and [part 2], "Physical contemplations; of the nature, and natural-causes of fire, morally applied" (G5r), each has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. Part 3, "Sixty one meditations, and reflections upon the most remarkable passages and circumstances of the late dreadful fire", and part 4, "Twenty seven meditations consisting of counsel and comfort to direct and support Christians under outward troubles", with imprint "printed for Thomas Parkhurst, Nathaniel Ranew, and Jonathan Robinson", each has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. In the imprint for part 4 Ranew's first name is printed as "Nathanael" in place of "Nathaniel"

A variant of the edition with "printed by R.I. for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Golden Bible on London-bridge" in imprint (Wing R1876).
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