A short account of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, for the reflecting Christian / by J. Henry C. Helmuth, Minister of the Lutheran congregation ; translated from the German by Charles Erdmann ; copy right secured according to law.

  • Helmuth, Justus Henry Christian, 1745-1825.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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    only an hour after funfet, becaufe it was deemed to be very dangerous to people, not accultomed to the air and vapours of that place, yet, Lo! now they were fafe in this unhealthful place ; not one of them, to my knowledge, got fick. But few Would fly to Kenfington, becaufe that part was infected as well as the city itfelf. In laying thus before the reader my opinion about the origin of the diforder, I mould be en- tirely mifunderftood, if any fhould fuppofe, that I thereby meant to exclude the agency of God in exercifmg his holy judgments upon us ; no, I re- peat again, what I have faid already in the be- ginning, I look upon the whole as a deferved punifhment of a j'uft, as well as merciful God. It remains an eternal truth, of which I aril fully convinced, when we anfwer the queftion of Amos. III. 6. ** There is no evil in the city, but what the Lord hath done. It is the Lord who makes the feftilence cleave unto thee. It is the Lord who fmU feth mankind with ulcers and fevers, and heat, and blafling, and drought, and infeclion, and jaundice, Deut. XXVIII, 21.22. The Lord fends peflilence among the tranfgreffors of his law, Jerem. XXIV. io. It is according to Ifaiah XXIV. i. The Lord of whom it faid Behold he maketh the earth empty and makctb it wafle. And v. 3. The land jhallbe utterly emptied and utterly fpoiled: for the Lord hath j'poken this word. Sword, famine and peflilence are the fervants of the Lord, whom he fends or retains at his pleaiure. It would not have cofl a miracle to have