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And the reason of this is, Reason. because God at all times is in all places, and of equal power in every place, and therefore what should hinder him from doing that every where in the same moment, if it stand with his justice and will, which he doth any where? The great deluge in the time of Noah, covered not one Nation one year, and an other the next, and a long time after the rest which were far separated asunder, but he in his wrath was present in every country, and so were they all overwhelmed in few days: and who knoweth whether it seized not upon each of them in one day? which maketh,

And the reason of this is, Reason. because God at all times is in all places, and of equall power in euery place, and therefore what should hinder him from doing that euery where in the same moment, if it stand with his iustice and will, which he doth any where? The great deluge in the time of Noe, couered not one Nation one yeare, and an other the next, and a long time after the rest which were farre separated asunder, but he in his wrath was present in euery country, and so were they all ouerwhelmed in few daies: and who knoweth whether it seized not vpon each of them in one day? which maketh,

For reproof of them that think, Use. if they escape one place of infection, they are safe enough. But cannot God or his Angel reach them wheresoever they be? ⟨p. 54⟩Though no infected person come near them, cannot the Lords hand find them out? Yes certainly, let them climb up unto heaven, ¹or go down into hell, or hide themselves at the centre of the earth, Gods eye is still upon them, and his hand near unto them: so that they can go safe no where without Gods favour. If the pestilence were only in India, we should as easily be infected in England, if God had a quarrel against us, and a purpose to plague us that way, as if we were in the midst of the infected persons. Who would have thought that Gehazi should have been smitten with the leprosy when his master and he were together? The like may be said of Miriam when Aaron was with her. Nay who would have thought that King Uzziah should have been plagued with that stroke in such an holy place as the Temple was, where God would have no unclean thing to enter? Yet when he presumptuously usurped the high Priests office, he was not spared, no not in the Sanctuary. So that this may be surely concluded, that no place can shelter a man from misery, if sin be harboured and entertained in his heart.