 His account of the plague in "God's Terrible Voice in the City by Plague and Fire", 1667, is graphic; seven in his own household died as a result of the plague.Subsequently, he gathered a large congregation at Hoxton, apparently in a wooden meeting-house, of which for a time he was dispossessed.He was among the signers of the 1673 Puritan Preface to the Scots Metrical Psalter.