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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    ( *4 ) thee from the Snare oj the Fowler, and from the noifom Pefiilence. He fall cover thee with his Feathers, and under his Wings /halt thou trujl, his Truth fall be thy Shield and Buck¬ ler * and then does he begin in particular in my Text: THOU SHALT HOT Be AFRAID OFTHETERROUR BT NIGHT, NOR FOR THE ARROW THAT FLIETH BT DAT; NOR FOR THE PESTILENCE THAT WAL- KETH IN DARKNESS, NOR FOR THE DESTRUCTION THAT WASTETH AT NOON-DAY. A Thoufand /hall fall at thy Side, and Ten Thoufand at thy Right-Hand, but it fiall not come ?iigh thee, and fo on to the End of the Pfahn. Infomuch that the Godly are here reprefented as joyful and of good Chear in Jehovah their Shield, and Almighty God of Covenant ^ of whom they are allured that, in his infinite Wifdom and Goodnefs, he may eafily either quite free them from the moft imminent Dangers, or at leaft direfl: lots Judgments in fuch a manner as they might not be prejudicial to them, but rather tend to their Salvation, and a bet¬ ter Life hereafter. Truly this is the chief Caufe of their Re¬ liance, even in thefe terrible Days of Pefti- lence * they knowing in th z fir ft Place, that fuch Natio?ial Punijhments muff now and then come down upon a hardened, and its Crimes from Time to Time accumulating World, wherein they, thro* Faith, ufe to glorify the Great God, and praife his righ¬ teous