The end and design of God's judgments : a sermon preach'd before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, on Friday, December 8, 1721. Being the day appointed for a general fast, for obtaining the pardon of our sins, and averting those heavy judgments we have most justly deserved, and particularly the plague, with which several other countries are at this time visited / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Norwich.

  • Greene, Thomas, 1658-1738.
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1721
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Credit: The end and design of God's judgments : a sermon preach'd before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, on Friday, December 8, 1721. Being the day appointed for a general fast, for obtaining the pardon of our sins, and averting those heavy judgments we have most justly deserved, and particularly the plague, with which several other countries are at this time visited / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dom, fpreading its deadly Infe&ion id un~ controulably, firft on one Side, and then on another, as if it threatned to go through the whole Land. And whether or no it may not at laft involve the neighbouring Nations, and ours among the reft, in the fame moft fatal and dreadful Calamity, God alone knows. It is now Fifty Five Years, fince this Na¬ tion was infe&ed with any Fejlilential Difiem- per j a Space of Time longer than ever this Nation was known to have efcaped the like before. Not that we have lefs deferved fuch a Judgment than our Fathers before us did, ( I wifh I could fee any Reafon to fup- pofe that;) but it has been owing to God’s wonderful Mercy alone towards us, that he has fpared us fo long from fo fevere a Scourge. For it has plea fed God, like a prudent and indulgent Father, by various Methods of his Providence towards this Nation, of late Years, to endeavour to bring us to a Confideration of our wicked Ways, that we might amend them. One while inviting us to it by many Bleftlngs, and at another trying to reclaim us by the Severity of hk 13 Judg”