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.

Date:
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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    • r ' ## i Lot it hath been lately as to have lived in Places vifited by this Divine Judgment, and can re-colled your Memory, willbe to the full convinc’d with me ! Or if you pleafe to look into the Hiftories thereof, both in For- mer and Latter Ages, there you will every Time be brought into a raoft difnaal and ter¬ rible Field of Slaughter, and behold every where about you nothing but pale Death in its moft ghaftly Figure, and, by Confe- quence, meet with nothing in all the Hou- fes and Streets of the City but Terrour. Yet, notwithftanding all this, hath the Supream Wifdom and Spirit of<Jod thought it necefiary, not only to give in ray Text of this in itfelf terrible Diftemper, yet a terrible Defcription, but to have it ipferted alfo in one of the publick Pfitlms to be fung in his Holy Temple j that Fir.fl the Severity of his Judgments upon a finful World might the better, and with a greater Attention, be con- iider’d, and thereby Mankind moved to a thorough Humiliation and Repentance ^ and Secondly, That the Greatnefs arid Strength of the Confidence of the Godly, under the All-fufficient and Almighty Proteftion of their Heavenly Father, might thereby be render’d more confpicuous, and the World convinc’d, how, even under thefe dreadful Vifitations, they have nothing to fear. For thefe and the like Reafons goes the Spirit of God about this fad Defcription of the Plague in thefe moil Pathetical ExpreJJ'tons and