Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

Oh how deplorable had thy case been, if a Pagan Idolatress had brought thee forth, and Idolatry had been sucked in with thy Mothers milk! then in all probability, thou hadst been at this day worshipping Devils, and posting with full speed in the direct road to Damnation: for these are the people of Gods wrath, Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know the• ⟨p. 43⟩not, and upon the families that call not upon thy name. How dreadful is that imprecation against them? •sal. 97. 7. which takes hold of them and all that's theirs, Confounded be all they that serve graven Images, that boast themselves of Idols.

Oh how deplorable had thy case been, if a Pagan Idolatress had brought thee forth, and Idolatry had been suckt in with thy Mothers milk! then in all probability, thou hadst been at this day worshipping Devils, and posting with full speed in the direct road to Damnation: for these are the people of Gods wrath, Jer. 10. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know the• ⟨p. 43⟩not, and upon the familJes that call not upon thy name. How dreadful is that imprecation against them? •sal. 97. 7. which takes hold of them and all that's theirs, Confounded be all they that serve graven Images, that boast themselves of Idols.

(2.) Or suppose your Lot had fallen among Mahometans, who next to Pagans spread over the greatest tract of the Earth: for though Arabia bred that unclean Bird, yet it was not that Cage, that could long contain him; for, not only the Arabians, but the Persians, Turks and Tartars, do all bow down their backs under that grand Impostor. This poison hath dispersed it self through the veins of Asia, over a great part of Afric, even the Circumference of seven thousand miles, and stops not there, but hath tainted a considerable part of Europe also.