A sermon against the dangerous and sinful practice of inoculation. Preach'd at St. Andrew's Holborn, on Sunday, July the 8th, 1722 / By Edmund Massey.

  • Edmund Massey
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1722
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Credit: A sermon against the dangerous and sinful practice of inoculation. Preach'd at St. Andrew's Holborn, on Sunday, July the 8th, 1722 / By Edmund Massey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t it * re i be to try their Patience, and that their Faith may be found in the Day of the Lord, laudable, glorious and honourable, to the en- ereafe of Glory and endlefs Felicity: Or whether tt be fent to them to corrett and amend what¬ ever doth offend the Eyes of their Heavenly Fa- *er' For as the Scripture alTerts, God ot not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children Lam. of Men-, that is, affl.ft Men merely for the33' fake ofcorreaing them, nor take Pleafure in their Sufferings as fuch ; it will follow, that to one of our aforementioned Reafons, viz. either the Trial of our Faith, or Punifoment o our Sins, all his Vifitations are to be attri- buted. Some Sins it pleafes God to ftrike immedi- itely m a more remarkable Manner, as he 'd H,ni\ while orhers do naturally, and by At., legrees, advance to the Punifhment they de-2- Cl ve : Thus habitual Drunkennefs and Adul- ery, will ruin Health, and impair Eftates, nd induce a diftempered old Age as the na¬ if1 Conference of a riotous youthful one. Lhis alfo gives us to confider, that Difeafes re not only judicially inflifted for paft Of- :nces, but gracioufly alfo defign’d to pre- ent future : And a little Recolleaiqn will C 2 te]]