The end and design of God's judgments : a sermon preach'd before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, on Friday, December 8, 1721. Being the day appointed for a general fast, for obtaining the pardon of our sins, and averting those heavy judgments we have most justly deserved, and particularly the plague, with which several other countries are at this time visited / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Norwich.

  • Thomas Green
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1721
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Credit: The end and design of God's judgments : a sermon preach'd before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church in Westminster, on Friday, December 8, 1721. Being the day appointed for a general fast, for obtaining the pardon of our sins, and averting those heavy judgments we have most justly deserved, and particularly the plague, with which several other countries are at this time visited / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Norwich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L * ] I S A. XXVI. 9. - - - When thy ‘Judgments are in the Eartht the Inhabitants of the World will learn Righteoufnefs, T being the Original Defign of God’s creating Mankind., that they might ferve him here in Holinefs, and fo be happy for ever hereafter ; he has been pleas’d to ex¬ ert himfelf towards them in various Me¬ thods., fuitable to their Nature^ as reafon- able free Creatures., in order to produce that gracious End. Sometimes he deals with them in the Way of his Mercies ^ by thofe gentler Difpenfations 3 endeavouring to oblige and win them to their Duty, and as it is were with the Cords of Love, and the Bands of a Man , as he exprelfeth himfelf by his Prophet, Hof. xi. 4. to draw them to it. And fometimes he treats them in the Way of his Judgments j by ' A3 thofe