God's terrible voice in the city

when their doors have been shut up and fastened on the outside with an Inscription, Lord have mercy upon us, and none suffered to come in but a Nurse, whom they have been more afraid of, then the Plague it self: when lovers and friends, and companions in sin have stood aloof, and not dared to come nigh the door of the house, lest death should issue forth from thence upon them; especially when the disease hath invaded themselves; and first began with a pain and dizziness in their head, then trembling in their other members; when they have felt boils to arise under their arms, and in their groins, and seen blains to come forth in other parts: when the disease hath wrought in them to that height as to send forth those spots which (most think) ⟨p. 35⟩are the certain tokens of near approaching death; and now they have received the sentence of death within themselves, and have certainly concluded, that within a few hours they must go down into the dust; and their naked souls, without the case of their body, must make its passage into eternity, and appear before the highest Majesty, to render their accounts, and receive their sentence: None can utter the horror, which hath been upon the spirits of such, through the lashes and stings of their guilty consciences, when they have called to mind a life of sensuality, and profaneness, their uncleanness, drunkenness, injustice, oaths, curses, derision of Saints, and holiness, neglect of their own salvation; and when a thousand sins have been set in order before their eyes, with another aspect, than when they looked upon them in the temptation; and they find God to be irreconcilably angry with them, and that the day of grace is over, the door of mercy is shut, and that pardon and salvation (which before they slighted) is now unattainable; that the grave is now opening its mouth to receive their bodies, and hell opening its mouth to receive their souls; and they apprehend, that they are now just entering into a place of endless woe and torment, and they must now take up their lodgings in the inferior regions of utter darkness, with devils and their fellow damned sinners, and there abide for evermore in the extremity of misery, without any hopes or possibility of a release; and that they have foolishly brought themselves into this condition, and been the cause of their own ruin;

when their doors have been shut up and fastned on the outside with an Inscription, Lord have mercy upon us, and none suffered to come in but a Nurse, whom they have been more afraid of, then the Plague it self: when lovers and friends, and companions in sin have stood aloof, and not dared to come nigh the door of the house, lest death should issue forth from thence upon them; especially when the disease hath invaded themselves; and first began with a pain and diziness in their head, then trembling in their other members; when they have felt boiles to arise under their arms, and in their groins, and seen blaines to come forth in other parts: when the disease hath wrought in them to that height as to send forth those spots which (most think)