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Excerpt from The Works of Rev. Samuel Shaw, M. A., Minister of the Gospel in London, Vol. 1 of 2
It is now more than seven months since it pleased the holy and wise God to visit my house with the plague, when some dear and Christian friends from London were with me, whereby he gently touched and gave warning to myself and whole family, consisting then of eight souls, but called away only three members of it, viz. Two tender babes and one servant, besides my beloved sister, and a child of my precious friend, that man of God, Mr. G. C. Since also trans lated, who were of those citizens that visited me. You will easily believe that I can have no pleasure to rake into the ashes of the dead, aorto revive the taste of that wormwood and gall, which was then given me to drink and yeti see no reason whyi ought not to take pleasure in the pure and holy will of God, which always proceeds by the eternal rules of Almighty love and goodness, though the same be executed upon my dearest creature-comforts, and bear hard ly or ever so much upon my sweetest earthly interest; yea, andi see all reason in the world why I should give to God the glory of his attributes and works before all the world, and endeavour that some instruction may accompany that astonishment, which from me and my house hath gone out and spread itself far and near. I will not undertake to make any physical observations upon this unaccountable disease, nor''to vindicate myself from that great guilt that is charged upon me, as if 31 were a sinner. Above all that dwell in this country, or from those many false and senseless aspersions that have been cast upon my behaviour during this visita tion, much like that we read of, Matt. Xxviii. But do freely commit myself to him that judgeth righteously and.
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It is now more than seven months since it pleased the holy and wise God to visit my house with the plague, when some dear and Christian friends from London were with me, whereby he gently touched and gave warning to myself and whole family, consisting then of eight souls, but called away only three members of it, viz. Two tender babes and one servant, besides my beloved sister, and a child of my precious friend, that man of God, Mr. G. C. Since also trans lated, who were of those citizens that visited me. You will easily believe that I can have no pleasure to rake into the ashes of the dead, aorto revive the taste of that wormwood and gall, which was then given me to drink and yeti see no reason whyi ought not to take pleasure in the pure and holy will of God, which always proceeds by the eternal rules of Almighty love and goodness, though the same be executed upon my dearest creature-comforts, and bear hard ly or ever so much upon my sweetest earthly interest; yea, andi see all reason in the world why I should give to God the glory of his attributes and works before all the world, and endeavour that some instruction may accompany that astonishment, which from me and my house hath gone out and spread itself far and near. I will not undertake to make any physical observations upon this unaccountable disease, nor''to vindicate myself from that great guilt that is charged upon me, as if 31 were a sinner. Above all that dwell in this country, or from those many false and senseless aspersions that have been cast upon my behaviour during this visita tion, much like that we read of, Matt. Xxviii. But do freely commit myself to him that judgeth righteously and.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Samuel Shaw
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ISBN - 9780260511546
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Page Count - 446
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