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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    Right Hand as in other Places of the Holy Scripture, the moft piercing and fevered: of God's Judgments upon a finful World are fet forth by the fame Simile of an ARROW from HIS BOW WHICH HE HATH BENT AND MADE READY : For Godjudgeth the Righteous and God is angry with the Wicked every Fay • if he turn not, he will wet his Sword^and hath BENT HIS BOW, AND MADE IT READY-, HE HATH ALSO PREPAR'D FOR HIM THE IN¬ STRUMENTS OF DEATH, HE OR- DAINETH HIS ARROWS AGAINST THE PERSECUTORS. Pfalm vil Verfe SI, 12, 13. Thirdly, Does the Holy Penman go on to give us yet a nearer and clearer Explication of all this in the 6th Verfe, and calls it by its proper Name, the PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS, becaufe this raging Infedion falls on Mankind,like inevita¬ ble Dangers or Enemies life to do, in the dark of thzNight, which as they cannot be feen, fo can they neither be avoided for Indeed thus adually does the Plague attack poor Mortals like one Man does another in the Dark, they being oftentimes infeded with it, even before they can be aware of it, or difcover its dreadful Symptoms 3 and becaufe. Secondly, it WALKS perfedly round, and infefls not only from Bed to Bed, from Chamber to Chamber, from Houfe to Houfe, from Neigh¬ bourhood to Neighbourhood\ from Street to B 2 Street,