God's terrible voice in the city

In June the number increaseth from 43 to an 112. the next week to 168. the next to 267. the next to 470. most of which increase was in the remote parts; few in this month within, or near the walls of the City; and few that had any note for goodness or profession, were visited at the first: God gave them warning to bethink and prepare themselves; yet some few that were choice were visited pretty soon, that the best might not promise to themselves a supersedeas, or interpret any place of Scripture so literally, as if the Lord had promised an absolute general immunity and defence of his own people from this disease of the Plague.

In Iune the number increaseth from 43 to an 112. the next week to 168. the next to 267. the next to 470. most of which increase was in the remote parts; few in this month within, or neer the walls of the City; and few that had any note for goodness or profession, were visited at the first: God gave them warning to bethink and prepare themselves; yet some few that were choice were visited pretty soon, that the best might not promise to themselves a supercedeas, or interpret any place of Scripture so literally, as if the Lord had promised an absolute general immunity and defence of his own people from this disease of the Plague.

Now the Citizens of London are put to a stop in the carrier of their trade; they begin to fear whom they converse withal, and deal withal, least they should have come out of infected places. Now roses and other sweet flowers wither in the Gardens, are dis-regarded in the Markets, and People dare not offer them to their noses, lest with their sweet savour, that which is infectious should be attracted: Rue and Wormwood is taken into the hand; Myrrh and Zedoary into the mouth; and without some antidote few stir abroad in the morning. Now many houses are shut up where the Plague comes, and the inhabitants shut in, lest coming abroad they should spread infection. It was very dismal to behold the red Crosses, and read in great letters, Lord have mercy upon us, on the doors, and Watchmen standing before them with Halberds, and such a solitude about those places, and people ⟨p. 32⟩