History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections.

Date:: [1795?]

Credit: History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( '9 ) ' ' f < 1 longer enquired whac condition the people who fat near them were in,Jaut came with¬ out the lead caution, and crowded together, as if their lives were of no confequence, compared with the work which they were come about. Indeed their zeal in coming, and the earneftnefs and affectionate atten¬ tion they fhewed to what they heard, madt it manifeit what value people would put upon the wodhipof God, if they thought every day they attended at the church might be their laft. . It was in the height of this defpair it pleafed God to day his hand, and to flacken the violence of the contagion, in.a manner as furprifmg as that of -its beginning; and which f ie wed it to be his own particular hand. Nothing but Almighty power could have done it; the diforder ddpifed all medi¬ cine, death raged in every corner,1 and had it gone on as it did then, a few weeks more would have cleared the town of all its' inhabitants. In that very moment, when thirty thou- fand were dead in three weeks, nay, when it was reported three thoufand died in one night, and an hundred thoufand were taken fick; when we might well fay, “ Vain was the * •• * * , S'?- \$

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