A warning to Great-Britain, in a sermon preach'd at several churches in and about London, upon the spreading of the plague in France, and now publish'd for the benefit of others ... To which is added an appendix, containing an historical account of all the remarkable plagues, pestilences, and famines thro' the world ... with a large and particular description of that at Marseilles and other cities of France ... The whole is ended with Pope Gregory's sermon, preach'd at Rome in the year 590, when a pestilence destroy'd most of the citizens / By James Paterson, A.M.

Paterson, James, active 18th century.

Date:: [1721?]

Credit: A warning to Great-Britain, in a sermon preach'd at several churches in and about London, upon the spreading of the plague in France, and now publish'd for the benefit of others ... To which is added an appendix, containing an historical account of all the remarkable plagues, pestilences, and famines thro' the world ... with a large and particular description of that at Marseilles and other cities of France ... The whole is ended with Pope Gregory's sermon, preach'd at Rome in the year 590, when a pestilence destroy'd most of the citizens / By James Paterson, A.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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