The pestilence abroad, and the perplexity of our affairs at home, consider'd and improved : in a sermon preach'd in Exon, March 1. 1720. and now publish'd at the desire of several who heard it / By John Withers.

  • Withers, John, 1669-1729.
Date:
1721
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Credit: The pestilence abroad, and the perplexity of our affairs at home, consider'd and improved : in a sermon preach'd in Exon, March 1. 1720. and now publish'd at the desire of several who heard it / By John Withers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *7 ) Example and Succefs of Pious Mofes. Take Num. xii’ a Cenfer (fays he to Aaron the High- Pried) and put Fire therein from the Ah tar, and go quickly \into the Congrega¬ tion 5 for there is Wrath gone out from the Lord, the Flague is begun: And Aa¬ ron did fO) and food between the living and the dead\ and the Flague was fat¬ ed* O that we could cry mightily to our God this Day! That our Prayers might come up before him as Incenfe, and the lifting up of our Hands as the Evening Sa¬ crifice ! Then might we hope that he would appoint to us Salvation for Walls and Bul¬ warks. Let us cry and figh for the Abo¬ minations of the Land in which we live. Whilft others, by their Impieties, are widen¬ ing the Breach, and letting in an Inun¬ dation of Mifery upon us, let us Hand in the Gap, and by our fervent Suppli- • cations, endeavour to turn away Wrath from our Ifraeh When the Land of Ju¬ dah was in Danger of God’s Judgments, by reafon of the horrid Depravation of their Morals, we read, The Lord faw there wasiCzAix, no Mm, and wondred there was no Inter- cejfoTo f heir Silence and Stupidity in thefe Circumftances was Matter of Aftonifhment and Wonder. 7. The * A I