The increase of righteousness the best preservative against national judgements : a sermon preach'd before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, Decemb. the 16th. 1720. Being the day appointed by His Majesty for a general fast and humiliation for obtaining pardon of our sins and averting God's judgments, and particularly for beseeching God to preserve us from the plague with which several other countries are at this time visited / by Joseph Wilcocks.

  • Wilcocks, Joseph, 1673-1756.
Date:
1720
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Credit: The increase of righteousness the best preservative against national judgements : a sermon preach'd before the honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, Decemb. the 16th. 1720. Being the day appointed by His Majesty for a general fast and humiliation for obtaining pardon of our sins and averting God's judgments, and particularly for beseeching God to preserve us from the plague with which several other countries are at this time visited / by Joseph Wilcocks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Divine Vengeance, our Contention and Enmity fhould ceafe on Earth; we flhould concurr, at leaft, as we may confiftently, with differing Opinions, in reforming the Errors of pur Lives ’ and clothing ourfelves with Innocence, Integrity, and Virtue. So fliall we difengage ourfelves from die vile and mifchievous Suggeftions of Envy, Pre¬ judice, and Ill-nature; and from Avaricp that fatal Root of the Evil we fo hea¬ vily complain of, and of another Ca¬ lamity, which we would as induftri- ouffy conceal, and which equally ought to be lamented, our corrupt and mem cenary Practices. W e can ufe no Words that will bet¬ ter exprefs our true Cafe than thofe of the Prophet to the Jews ; Behold, the Lords Hand is not fhortned, that it cannot ifalah jave; neither his Ear heavy that it cannot 1,2,3» hear. But our Iniquities have feparated between us and our God, and our Sifts have hid his Face from us, that he will not hear. For cur Lips have D 2 fpoken lix. 12.