[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…

The Sixth Remark.

Unto the Contentious we have seen God Recompense Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish. Said th• Apostle once, in Rom. 16 17. I beseech you, Brethren, Mark them which cause Div•••••s. And I now say, I beseech you, Brethren, Mark the Places and the Persons, which by Divisions have m•de themselves Notorious: Mark, what Judgments of God have Signalized them. Something of what I have Marked, I will freely tell you.

Unto the Contentious we have seen God Recompence Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish. Said th• Apostle once, in Rom. 16 17. I bes••ch you, Brethren, Mark them which cause Div•••••s. And I now say, I beseech you, Brethren, Mark the Places and the Persons, which by Divisions have m•de themselves Notorious: Mark, what Judgments of God have Signalized them. Something of what I have Marked, I will freely tell you.

I have Marked it, That those Places, which have kept up Divisions, and Strifes, and Schisms, have been direfully Smitten with Spiritual Plagues, the Plagues which are of all the direfullest. The most Lively Saints in those places, have been soon Snatched away by Death, one after another: The Power of Godliness hath been Lamentably lost among the Survivors, and a Leanness hath been sent into their Souls: The Work of Conversion hath been at a deadly stand, and the Rising Generation hath pined away in their Iniquities. Yea, there was one Church among us, wherein an uncomfortable Rupture happened: and a Young man