God's terrible voice in the city

The Plague indeed when it was come, made little discrimination between the bodies of the righteous, and the bodies of the wicked; no more doth grace; the difference is more inward and deep; it is the soul begins to be glorified hereby, and hath the seed of eternal life put into it, when it doth pass the new birth; but the body is not changed with the soul, the body remains as it was, as frail and weak, and exposed to diseases and death, as before, and as the body of any wicked person; and therefore the infectious disease of the Plague, coming into a populous City, the bodies of the righteous; amongst the rest, receive the contagion, and they fall in the common calamity; there is a difference in the manner of their death, and ⟨p. 76⟩a difference in their place, and state after death, as hath been spoken of before, but the kind of death is the same.

The Plague indeed when it was come, made little discrimination between the bodies of the righteous, and the bodies of the wicked; no more doth grace; the difference is more inward and deepe; it is the soul begins to be glorifyed hereby, and hath the seed of eternal life put into it, when it doth pass the new birth; but the body is not changed with the soul, the body remains as it was, as frail and weak, and exposed to diseases and death, as before, and as the body of any wicked person; and therefore the infectious disease of the Plague, coming into a populous City, the bodies of the righteous; amongst the rest, receive the contagion, and they fall in the common calamity; there is a difference in the manner of their death, and ⟨p. 76⟩a difference in their place, and state after death, as hath been spoken of before, but the kind of death is the same.

So the fire doth make no discrimination between the Houses of the godly, and the Houses of the ungodly, they are all made of the same combustible matter, and are enkindled, as bodies infected, one by another; indeed the godly have God to be their habitation, and they are Citizens of the new Jerusalem, which is above, a City which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God; an abiding City, which the fire cannot reach, and their persons are secured from the flames of eternal fire in Hell, but they have no promise nor security for the preservation of their Houses from fire here in this World. The judgments of the plague and fire being sent, work according to their nature, without distinguishing the righteous.