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.

John M. Mason

Date:: MDCCXCIII [1793]

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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(t) paffions: brwratbf merited wrath, remem- ber and tcllify, unmerited <( mercy The words wrath, rntrty] remember, which occur in the text, muft be underftood, and ex- plained in a fenfe which will not militate againfl the purity, and fimplicity of the divine nature. It would be both ignorant and impious to af- cribe to Jehovah thofe emotions which agitate the bofom of a mortal. In the uncreated mind, there is, properly fpeaking, neither paflion, nor affection, but all is pure all. The wrath of God, then, as it refpects himfelf, is his holy de- termination to pu/iijh fin ; and, as it refpects his creatures, is the execution of that determination. Mercy, in Him, is that perfection which is ever ready to relieve the miferable; and when it re- gards mifery connected with guilt, it is termed grace. As every thing is invariably prefent to the in- finite mind, God cannot be ftrictly faid to for- get : and therefore to remember mercy, is the fame as to Jhezv mercy: And the prayer of the prophet is briefly this, that the Lord would gra- cioufly remove from the Ifraelites the punifh-

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