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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    I)ifiempev in our own Houfes and Cities, which, tho* not quite Mortal, is yet unac¬ countable, and by the Swiftnefs of its Flight thro5 Holland^ Flanders^ Germany, and France, molt like unto an Epidemical Difeafe * nay, and as fome Ikillful in Nature will have it, is actually a Forerunner of the terrible lence. And what do you think therefore, does it not behove us for Once to ftand ftill, and in the Houfe of God puhlickly to take Notice of thefe his Publick Judgments, in Order to awaken and exhort one another to Repentance, that thefe Vifitations of the ’Neighbouring Nations and of 0 urfelves y iftay be truly fancHfied to us, and we in Time prepar’d, if perhaps this terrible Day and Deflroyer might, for the encreafing Sins of the Land, come quickly .<? For which End I have chofen to Day the Words of the Holy Pfalmifi in the Text which are at once a lively and comforting Exhortation of the Spirit of the Lord to the Godly, not to be afraid even in the moft ter¬ rible Time of Plague ^ the Dreadfulnefs of which He at the fame Time deferibes by the moft Pathetical Exprejjlons, and Mournful Similies * of TERROUR BY NIGHT, the ARROW THAT FLIETH BY DAY, the PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS, and the DESTRUCTI¬ ON THAT WASTETH AT NOON¬ DAY ; In Order to (hew how at all Times, ‘ and