The terrour of the world, and refuge of the godly, in sickly times : a sermon occasioned by the late general sickness in England, and other parts of Europe preached to a Protestant congregation in this city on Sunday the 31st of August, 1712.

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1712
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Credit: The terrour of the world, and refuge of the godly, in sickly times : a sermon occasioned by the late general sickness in England, and other parts of Europe preached to a Protestant congregation in this city on Sunday the 31st of August, 1712. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Heaven ? And if the leaft Touch ofSicknefs, affords abundant Matter of Speculation to a Child of God, both on the adorable JuJlice and Mercy of the Great God, as thereby temporally Punifhing Sin, and at the fame Time Calling to Repentance, how much more then muff General Dftempers and Epi¬ demical Difeafes as over-run vaft f rafts of the Habitable World, and whereby even the moft Worldly and Wicked are terrify’d and awaken’d? How much more then, I fay, ought we to hand (till, and to confider, and to make this Godly Ufe of them, duly to weigh from whence they come, from a Juft and Provoked God, and to what they fhould lead us, to Repentance and a Religious Life .<? Dearly Beloved, and who. amongft you ufeth to take but the leaft Notice of God's Finger in the Government of this World, and is not at this Time fully convinc’d that thefe very National Vijitations have now • befallen us? When the dreadful Plague hath near Eight Years together been raging in Our Part of the World, I mean in moft Places of Europeand been actually Walking about fn Darknefs frdm the Borders of the South to the Eaft^ And from the Eaft to the NTorth, and is now from the North drawing nigh to the Weft; I mean to this very Coun¬ try where we live in, as the fad Accounts from Abroad do, from Poft to Poft, inform us. Nay : And when We ourfelves have in this prefent Summer Seafon felt a General Dijlemper