God's terrible voice in the city

Now secure sinners begin to be startled, and ⟨p. 30⟩those who would have slept at quiet still in their nests, are unwillingly awakened. Now a great consternation seizeth upon most persons, and fearful bodings of a desolating judgment. Now guilty sinners begin to look about them, and think with themselves into what corner of the Land they might fly to hide them. Now the profane and sensual, if they have not remorse for their sins; yet dread and terrors, the effects of guilt, they could not drive from them; and if by company, and carousing, and soft pleasures they do intoxicate and smoothen their spirits in the day; yet we may guess what dread doth return upon them if they give but any room for retirement, and what hideous thoughts such persons have in the silent night, through fears of death which they are in danger of. Now those who did not believe an unseen God, are afraid of unseen arrows; and those which slighted Gods threatenings of eternal judgments, do tremble at the beginning of his execution of one, and not the greatest temporal judgment. Now those which had as it were challenged the God of Heaven, and defied him by their horrid oaths and blasphemies, when he begins to appear, they retreat, yea fly away with terror and amazement. The great Orbs begin first to move; the Lords and Gentry retire into their Countries; their remote houses are prepared, goods removed, and London is quickly upon their backs: few ruffling Gallants walk the streets: few spotted Ladies to be seen at windows: a great forsaking there was of the adjacent places where the Plague did first rage.

Now secure sinners begin to be startled, and ⟨p. 30⟩those who would have slept at quiet still in their nests, are unwillingly awakened. Now a great consternation seizeth upon most persons, and fearful bodings of a desolating judgment. Now guilty sinners begin to look about them, and think with themselves into what corner of the Land they might fly to hide them. Now the profane and sensual, if they have not remorse for their sins; yet dread and terrors, the effects of guilt, they could not drive from them; and if by company, and carousing, and soft pleasures they do intoxicate and smoothen their spirits in the day; yet we may guess what dread doth return upon them if they give but any room for retirement, and what hideous thoughts such persons have in the silent night, through fears of death which they are in danger of. Now those who did not believe an unseen God, are affraid of unseen arrows; and those which slighted Gods threatnings of eternal judgments, do tremble at the beginning of his execution of one, and not the greatest temporal judgment. Now those which had as it were challenged the God of Heaven, and defied him by their horrid oaths and blasphemies, when he begins to appear, they retreat, yea fly away with terror and amazement. The great Orbs begin first to move; the Lords and Gentry retire into their Countries; their remote houses are prepared, goods removed, and London is quickly upon their backs: few ruffling Gallants walk the streets: few spotted Ladies to be seen at windows: a great forsaking there was of the adjacent places where the Plague did first rage.