Written during the plague in London in 1667. "Oh what havoc doth the Plague make amongst Men's Bodies! And what slaughter is Sin making amongst Men's Souls! Oh how fast are Men passing into Eternal torments, when the Plague cometh and catcheth the Drunkard, the Swearer,in his known Impiety, and the Hypocrite in his close hypocrisy! Ah that I could bewail the doleful state of the unbelieving and impenitent, of the Christless and the Graceless Souls, that must not live in this World, and yetare unfit to go into another!