The day, & the work of the day. A brief discourse, on what fears…

Seventhly. Let not Fear be cast off: Are we not Afraid, Lest the Great Wrath of the Devil which hath been upon us, do remain for more than a Short Time among ⟨p. 65⟩us. I Remember, 'tis affirmed by •laber Radulphus, That about the Time, when Antichrist was breaking in upon the World, People were scared almost out of their Wits, with a Fiery Dragon, seen sometimes to Fly about the Air. Truly, That Fiery Dragon, the Devil, has been most sensibly Flying about us, within this year […] two, in the matchless Enchantments and Possessions, that have abounded. in our Neighbourhood. But into what Passions, into what Mistakes, into what Enormous Disorders, has this Descent of the Devil precipitated us, instead of driving us, to a more Trembling Walk with God? The Evil Angels being now so much rated off as they are, 'tis well if the next Stroke be not that in Psal 78 49, 59. He cast upon them the Fierceness of His Anger, Wrath, and Indignation, and Trouble, by sending Evil Angels among them. And what's the Next News? He made a way to His Anger, He spared not their Soul from Death, but gave their Life over to the Pestilence, We have been in an Egyptian Darkness, buffeted by Evil Angels, and buffeting one another upon the Impulse of those Angels. God forbid, that the next Thing should be, such an Egyptian ⟨p. 66⟩Pestilence, as will hardly Leave an House without one Dead Person in […] What if the Angels of Death, should next shoot the Arrows of Death, in an our Windows, with Epidemical Contagions? This I know; A Learned Man Writing against the Regard of Omens, yet about Apparitions of Spectres, has this passage; Perhaps God will have these Apollyons to be seen, as it were upon the Stage before Execution; that men may consider into whose Hands, in likelihood, their Iniquities have Betrayed them.

Seventhly. Let not Fear be cast off: Are we not Afraid, Lest the Great Wrath of the Devil which hath been upon us, do remain for more than a Short Time among ⟨p. 65⟩us. I Remember, 'tis affirm'd by •laber Radulphus, That about the Time, when Antichrist was breaking in upon the World, People were scared almost out of their Wits, with a Fiery Dragon, seen sometimes to Fly about the Air. Truly, That Fiery Dragon, the Devil, has been most sensibly Flying about us, within this year two, in the matchless Enchantments and Possessions, that have abounded. in our Neighbourhood. But into what Passions, into what Mistakes, into what Enormous Disorders, has this Descent of the Devil precipitated us, instead of driving us, to a more Trembling Walk with God? The Evil Angels being now so much rated off as they are, 'tis well if the next Stroke be not that in Psal 78 49, 59. He cast upon them the Fierceness of His Anger, Wrath, and Indignatoon, and Trouble, by sending Evil Angels among them. And what's the Next News? He made a way to His Anger, He spared not their Soul from Death, but gave their Life over to the Pestilence, We have been in an Egyptian Darkness, buffeted by Evil Angels, and buffeting one another upon the Impulse of those Angels. God forbid, that the next Thing should be, such an Egyptian