A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 : a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia / by John Mitchel Mason, Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York.

  • Mason, John M. (John Mitchell), 1770-1829.
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MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A sermon, preached September 20th, 1793 : a day set apart, in the city of New-York, for public fasting, humiliation and prayer, on account of a malignant and mortal fever prevailing in the city of Philadelphia / by John Mitchel Mason, Minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church in the city of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A SERMON, &c. O LORD IN WRATH REMEMBER MERCY. HAB. 4. Ill, A ,T the time when our Prophet directed to the throne of grace, that fublime and affecting petition of which our text is a part, the circurru fiances of his country were calamitous, and her profpects alarming. The moil high God, pro- voked at her unfaithfulnefs, had withdrawn the fmiles of his countenance, and the protection of his arm*. To make her know, by fad experi- ence, that it is indeed an evil thing and bitter to depart from God, he commiflioned his fervant Habakkuk to tbretcl the fpeedy invafion of the Chaldeans, and to declare that he would yield