God's terrible voice in the city

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.

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 Ierusalem, 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.

But if we further enquire into the reason, why the plague was sent the last year, and such a plague as hath not been known this forty year, which raged so sorely, when there was no such sultriness of weather (as in other years) to increase it; and why the fire was sent this year, and such a fire as neither we, nor our fore-fathers ever knew, neither do we read of in any History of any so great in any place, in time of peace; what shall we say was the cause of these extraordinary national judgments, but the extraordinary national sins. It was an extraordinary hand of God which brought the plague, of which no natural cause can be assigned, why it should be so great that year, more then in former years, but ⟨p. 77⟩