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           THEOLOGICAL
  DISSERTATION,
                   ON  THE
     PROPRIETY  OF REMOVING
                  FROM   THE
SEAT  OF  THE   PESTILENCE:
          PRESENTED TO  THE PERUSAL
                    OF  THE
        SERIOUS  INHABITANTS
                       O  F
   PHILADELPHIA  and NEW-YORK.
    Ey WILLIAM  MARSHALL,  A.  ill.
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Theological   Dissertation,   <Sc.
        l\.S our capital cities have, of late,  been
feveral  times  vifited with  the  peftilential fever,
whereby many thoufands of their inhabitants  have
been  carried away  to  ths  eternal  world ; it has
been warmly agitated among profelTors of religion,
whether  it is confident with revealed religion to
remove  from them during the  time of this awful
judgment or not.  An inveftigation of  this  fubject
is now briefly attempted.

   The  queftion  is not, "  Whether  we can fly
from God ?"  Impreffed  with a  deep fenfe of the
divine omniprefence, we may fay with the Pfalmift,
1 Whither (hall  I  go from thy Spirit, or flee  from
1 ihy prefence.'
                    A ~               Neithe-
 
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    Neither is the  queflion, " Whether  the  pefli-
lential fever be a judgment f.orn God?"  The holy
fcriptures allure us that this is one of his judgments.
' I have fent among you the peflilence after the
' manner of Egypt,' Amos iv.  io. ' If  1 fend  a
' peflilence into that lard, and pour out iry fury
* in blood, to cut off  from  it  man and  beafl,'
Ezek.  xiv.  19.  Whether the   American  plague
generates in our cities,  or is  imported from other
places of the world, is all or.c  to thofe who  be-
lieve that all fe.-ond caufes are in mediately under
the direction of the iirft  Caufe.   The Lord fays,
' Shall there be [penal] evil in a city and I have not
' done it,' Amos iii. 6.  Thofe who leave their habi-
tations, and  go to other places, where they  fuffer
many hardHii'S, and fpend much of their  fubflance,
fuffer  no fmall  part of the judgment, as well as
thofe who flay in the pLce where the feat of the ca-
lamity is.

    Yea the quefiion is not, " What is  the  duty
of every  individual,  where the peflilence rages?"
Thofe who are feized with the difcafe ou£.ht  to be
duly attended, by fuch as  can adminifter  any com-
fort or relief.  It appears (hocking to n: tare, for
friends to leave one another in fuch a time of dif-
trefs.   The poor,  who cynuot remove, nor do any 
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thing for their fupport during the time of the pre-
vailing ficknefs and mortality,  muft be looked  af-
ter,  and fpiritcd meafures purfued (as there  has
been) fdr their relief; all  this renders it neceffary,
that fuch as can be ufeful  to their fellow creatures
ought to remain.  Thofe who  flay upon fuch  be-
nevolent principles,  furely  deferve  much credit.
There is no fitintion  in life in which all are bound
to act alike.  Even on public worfhip it is  not  the
duty of every individual of a church to attend every
time it  is performed.   This is on"e good rule  for
the right underftanding of our duty at all- times,
"  That what God forbids is at  no time to be done ;
what he  commando is  always duty, and yet every
particular duty is not to be done  at all times."

    The queflion precifely i=,  " What is the duty
of thofe who live in a place where the peftii-nce is
fprdading ? Should  they  not remove to a  more
healthy fituation if it is in their  power?"

    We anfwer in the affirmative,—for the follow-
ing reafons :

    I. The facred  oracles  require  this.   Match.
,xxiv. 7.  ' And there  fhall  be famines  and  peftilen-
' ces, a;id earthquakes, in diverfe places.' Ver.  16".
                                          ' Then 
[  8  1
' Then Ut them which be in Judea flee to themoun-
' tains.'  When the Lord poured out his  anger in
fire from heaven, upon the cities of Sodom and Go-
morrah, he ordered Lot  and his family to fly to a
a place of fa':<:tv, Gen. xix. 17. When he fent the
fore  judgment of  hail mingled with  fire upon the
Egyptians, they  were commanded to fly out of the
field into their houfes, and thus efcape: according-
ly thofe of the fervants of Pharoah who feared the
word of the Lord  were  preferved alive, while all
the reft  .vere deftroyed,  Exod.  ix.  18,—2 r.   The
prophet Elilha ordered  the woman vvhofe fon he
mercifully raifed from the dead, to arife and fly out
of the land, when  the feven  years  of famine were
fent  upon Ifracl  as a judgment to punifli  their ini-
quities,  2 Kings viii. I.  3.-—Perfecution for righ-
teoufnefs'fake is a fore judgment;  yet  our Lord
Jefus Chrift fays,  *  When  they perfecute you in
' this city fly to another,' Matth. x. 23.  No doubt
many hive fallen into the hands of perfecutors, and
obtained the crown of martyrdom ; but others fled
without blemifhing their chirn&cr*.   * Many wan-
4 dered about  in fbeep-fkins  and  goaifldns,  b:ing
' deftitute and afflicted; (of whom the  world was not
' w.rthv) they wandered about  in dens and caves of
' the earth..and all  thefe  obtained a  good  report,
* through faith,'  Heb. xi. 37,-39.   In the time of 
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the perfecution raifed by Ahab, Obadiah being in
high  office  at that profligate court,  hid an hun-
dred prophets of  the Lord  in caves, and fed them
with bread and  water,  I Kings iii. 3, 4.   It was
no reproach tq  thefc  prophets  that  they did  not
fland their ground, and  teflify  againfl the corrup-
tions and  wickcdnefs that  prevailed, but allowed
themfclves to be for fomc time buried  alive.  When
the plague brake out at Chiavenna, 156.;, Zanchius,
an eminent reformer, left his piftoral charge, and with
his family removed to  a mountain for three months
and a half.   During the plague at Glafgow,  1647,
the maftersand fludents of the univerfity removed to
Irvine, by the advice and dire&ion  of the pious and
learned Mr. David Dickfon.   The  fynod  of the
New England churches, in the lafl  century, gave it
 as their  opinion,  " That in  times  of epidemical
 "  contagion, the  mir.ifters  of  the gofpel  may by
 "  various methods attend to  what is neceffaryto be
"  attended to,  without the  ordinary vifitations of
 11  infected chambers,—ind that they fhould  not run
 li the rli'k of facrificing their lives for the  private
 "  i'civice of the fkk."*

                                        II. The

    * Mathers'* III.T. of N, England, Book V. p. 46. 
[  io  ]
   II. The example of our Lord Jefus Chrift war-
rants a flight from a place of danger.  We are cx-
prefsly  told by an  infpircd writer,  that  *  J  fug
* would not walk in Jewry becaufe the Jews fought
' to kill him,' John  vii.  i.  On this paffagc the
pious  Mr. Henry comments—" In  times of inni-
"  nent peril,  it is not only  allowable  but  com-
"  mendable, to withdraw  for cur own Lfcty and
"  prefervation, and to choofe the  fervice of thofe
"  places which are leafl perilous, (Matth. xvi. 23.)
"  Then,  and  not  till  then, are  we called to  lay
"  down our liv_-s,when we cannot fave them  with-
"  out. fl t."  The U-arned Mr.Wifbarf, on this fub-
je&, thus expreffes his fentiments :  " If in times
"  of  dd.:ger we neglect the means that the  Lord
"  in  his goodnefs affords us for our ihfety, this is
"  not to  truft  in  his power,  but to n?:le£l it.
"  Chrift himfelf did  wot  prefume up: n the  po-ver
"  of  God to  iecurc  him  from ihe Jews,  but ufed
*'  ordinary means for his p.Ulrnation."*

    While we fpeak of following Chiift's example,
we would not be  underftood  as  if we  confidered
Chrift S example as the chief defign of" his  divine
                                         million.

    * Wifhart's Theology, Vol, I. p. 221. 
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million.  This was doubtlefs  to  make  an atone-
ment for the fins of his choien people.   In his fal-
ling at laft into the hands of his enemies,  and per-
mitting them to take away  his life,  he acted as our
deliverer, not our example ; but notwithstanding,
he  hath fet us an example that we fhould follow his
fteps, in ordinary  cafes which  are imitable  by us.
Hence we are taught,  ' He that faith he abideth in
* him, ought himfelf alfo to walk even  as he walk-
* ed,'  i John ii. 6.

    III. To remove from  the  feat of infectious dif-
 eafe is enjoined by the fixth  precept of the moral
 law.   This requires  " all  lawful endeavours  to
 prefcrve our own life, and the life  of others."  To
 remain in fuch a  fituation, when it is in our power
 to remove, is  tempting  the  Lord :  when Satan
 tempted  Chrift,  he  defired   him   to  caft himfelf
 down from a pinnacle of  the temple,  telling him,
 ' It is written,  he fhall give his angels  charge con-
 ' cerning thee ;' our  Lord repelled the temptation,
 by telling him, ' It is written, thou (halt not tempt
 ' the Lord thy God,'  Matth. iv. 7.
     It muft mar  our  confidence in prayer to God
 v.'h-n we are  in affliction,  if we had any finful
  hand, either  direeily or  indirectly, in bringing it
  on ouifelves.  Staying in a place  where  the plague
                                               is, 
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is, without fome ve-v weighty  reafon, is vo Irfs  an
act of temerity, than ftanding  near an army enga-
ged in battle,  when one is expofed  to danger  by
the bullets flying in all directions.   The courage
cf the foldier  is ve-y  ciirertnt from  the fool-run di-
ne Is of fuch a  ipeciator.

    If what is  advanced  be denied, then it muft be
wrong to nuke laws to prevent peflilei.ihil difeafes
being  introduced,— to  ufe  any mea>iS  to prevent
fpreading tho  infection,—toeiect  hofp-tals  for  re-
ceiving the fick,or to give any medical aid to them,
becaufe it nvght be alleged, that all thefe are fight-
ing againft the judgments of God.

    Indeed this monftrous doctrine is no other than
the Mahometan doctrine of Fate; by the belief of
which, fo riany thoufands of the Turks have fallen
facrifices to rho plague; as their religion would  not
allow them to ufe means of preventing  or  flying
from  it.   It will in like manner  lead ..way from
the ufe of the  means  of grace, under a notion that
God's decrees are irreverflble.  But all arguments
of  this fort,  in as far as they are pretended to be
founded on the holy fcripture,  are   very frivolous ;
whatever weight they may  have with  frme,  there
are others  who will allege  that  they  deferve no
                                            other  | 
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other  name  than,  " The maggots of  corrupted
texts."

    The reader will perhaps think it now  time  to
proceed to anfwer objections.

    ift. "  The Lord has fixed,  in his  eternal pur-
" pofe, the precife time of our death, and therefore
" we need not fly from the peflilence, becaufe we
" will not die till our time comes."

    Anfwer.  It rcuft be granted, ' that  our days are
f determined  :' yet the Lord has, in  hys holy purpo-
fes, fixed the means and the end infenarably together.
When Paul  fuffered fhipwreck at Meletus, he was
allured by an angel  of God, that  he  and  all that
were in  the fhip fhould be faved; but  this was con-
 nected with  the ufe of lawful means for their pre-
fervation : therefore he told  the centurion, when
he faw the mariners about leaving the thip, ' That
 * except they abode in the fhip,  (and  ufed  means
 * of fafety)  they could not be  faved,' Ac^ls xxvii.
 24.  31.  It is a grofs abufe of the  doctrine of  the
divine decrees, to expect the end without the ufe of
 the  appointed and ordinary means.  We might as
 well argue,  that if God has decreed   that  we fhall
 live a year longer, then we fhall live fo long though
<ttys  neither cat or drink.   It is the doctrine  cf  de-
ifc                 B                      vils, 
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vils, to alTcrt, that upon the  funpofition  of a divine
decree, we fhall obtain the end,  though the means
be neglected.  Matth. iv.  6.

    As there are  fo many miftaken opinions about
the divine decrees, it may  be  pro; er to obferve,
that they extend not only to all things which come
to pafs ;  * known unto God are all his works from
'  the  beginning;' but  they extend to all poffible
things which fhall not come to pafs ; yea, to all
poffible things and their  poffible  connexion with
thefe  poffible things,  though God has determined
that neither  of thefe poffible things fhall  come  to
pafs.   This may appear fomewhat paradoxical, but
a little attention to what is faid  in  the  unerring
rule of righteoufnefs, will illuftrate it  fully.  When
David was at Keilah, rnd forely purfued  by Saul,
he afked  the Lord,  ' Will the men of Keilah de-
'  liver me and  my men into  the hand  of Saul ;
'  and  the Lord  faid,  they will  deliver  thee  up,'
I Sam. xxiii. 12.  Though the  Lrr.I  had deter-
mined that David fhould  not fall  into the  hand  of
Saul,  yet in the  divine councils,  there  was a con-
nexion fixed between  his flaying at  Keilah and
being delivered  up into the  hand oi Saul.   When
Joalh  king  of lfrael came to pay  his laft vifit to the
prophet Elifha when dying, the prophet defired hint'
                                              to 
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to fake hh arrows and fnite upon the ground, which
he did three times, and  flayed :  '  And the man of
' God was wroth wi;h him, and faid, Thou fhouldeft
' irive fmitten five or fix times, then hadft thou frnit-
  tcn  Syria,  till thou had ft confumed it ;  whereas
' now thou  fhalt  fmite Syria but  thrice,'  2 Kings
Xin.  19.*   The application of this doctrine to our
purpofe is obvious.  That certain confiitutions  be-
ing exgof^d to an infectious difeafe,  there may be
a connexion fixed in  taking the difcafe,  and their
dying in if ; and a connexion in their being conti-
nued  in health-end life in another  fitustion.

    Object.   2d.  " When  the  peflilence  was fent
"  under ths Old Teflament difpenfation,  we do
" not redd  of  any flying from it; why fhould we
" iJ/ now ?"

    Anfwer.  Under the Old Teflament,  when  the
people of If.-ael were guilfy of fomc particular pro-
vocation, the peflilence was inflated  by the imme-
mediate hand of God.  The cafe  is  not  fo now :
The  peflilence,  which  has'made fuch ravages,
certainly ariies from natural caules ; whether it
is imported  or  generated in our cities,  it is all one
                                             to
   * Wifhart's TheoJ.  Vol. II. pag. 80. 
                    [   I*  ]

to this  point.  No doubt the Lord over-rules all
fecondary caufes as he  pleafes; but as it  comes
in  this way, the  cafe  now  is  by  no  means
parallel with what it was under the law.  Yet even
under the law, the lepers were fhut  up in a  fepa-
xate houfe ;  and when the plague broke out in the
camp,  thofe who died of it  were feparated  from
thofe who were not infected.  When fourteen thou-
sand feven hundred  were at  once cut  off' by this
dreadful malady, ' Aaron made  an  atonement for
' the people, and  flood between the dead and the
* living*,  and the plague  was  flayed,' Numb.-
>;vic 48.

    The cannon  of fcripture  being now completed,
and the Chriftian religion having the broad feal of
heaven appended to it, by the miracles which  were
wrought for its confirmation,  it is not to be expect-
ed  that the Lord will now appear in the mir&culous
way in which he  has  done,  either  in  mercies or
judgments.   Notwithftanding of all this,  it muft be
granted, that the various fhapes  in which the late
fever has appeared ;  the infidious manner  of its
communication ; the  new modifications of  it from
year to yc?r, fo as to overthrow former theories a-
-bout it, and  confound the wifdom of tho wife, do all
loudly call  upon us in this  generation, to  know
                                          ' that 
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'that God is  the  Lord;' and nothing  down  of
an obduracy of hoart like Pharoah's,  can keep any
from  filing, *  This is  the finger of God,'  Exod.
viii. 19.

    Oject. 3d. "  Judgments are fent on account of
"  the wickednefs of a people; then the wicked on-
"  ly fhould fly,  not the godly ; who if they flay,
"  and fall in the common  calamity,  will make a
"  bleffed exchange of the prefent  (Lite for eternal
"  glory."

    Anfwer.  I. It is true that it is the wickednefs
of  our cities is  the  moral caufe  of our plagues.
Thereby  the Lord teflifies his indignation againft
our grievous  provocations;  particularly the  awful
profanation of  his name and day, with  the  diflti-
five fpread of atbeifm arid inhddity.   ' And if ye
' will walk contrary unto me, then will I alfo walk
' contrary unto ycu, and when ye  are gathered to-
' gether within  your cities, I will  fend the  pefli-
' lence among you,' Lov. xxxvi. 23,—25.   Yet it
is not the Lord's ordinary way,  to  pv.nifh  fin  in
this world according to  its  demerit.   Ho punifhes
{one  fins in the prefent ftaie,  to  fhew that there is
a God ;   and palTes by  many, to evince the cer-
tainty  of a judgment to come.   It is a very dan-
                      B 2               gerous 
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 gerous way to judge  men to be the objects of the
 divine hatred  by their afflictions :  This was  the er-
 ror of Job's friends, who alleged that he was mark-
 ed cut by the  Almighty as  an hypocrite, becaufe
 he inflicted fore afflictions upon him.  Againft all
 this pragmatical judging our Lord Jefus Chrift tef-
 tifies, when he fays, ' Think not that the men \\p-
 ' on whom the tower of  Siloam fell, were greater
 ' flnncrs than others;   I tell you, Nay," Luke
 xiii. 4.

    2. It is  a  very felfifh religion  that aims only r.f
 obtaining the  happirefs of heaven.  It  looks  very
 unlike  perfons being  formed for  God himfelf,  to
 fhew forth his  praifc, when  they  only defire to be
 delivered from hell, and brought to enjoy eternal
 glory, without any concern   about glorifying God
 on  earth.   '  The living,  the living  only fhall
 ' praife thee, the Libers  to the children fhall make
 ' known thy truths,' lfa. xxxvii.  19.

    3. It is not true that God always fends judg-
 ments on account  of the openly  profane.   When
 the  prophet Jonnh fled from  the  prefence  of the
Lord in a fhip  to Tarlhilh, though he was  the only
perfon on  board  that  knew and  worfhipped  the
true God, yet  merely on  his  account ' did the Lord
                                          ' fend 
t  *9   I
 4 fend a prmt wind into  the fea,  and there was a
 ' mighty temptt in the fen, fo that the  (hip  was
 ' like  to  be broken.'   Confcious  of this, the re-
 bellious prophet faid to the mariners, * Take me up,
 ' and  caft me forth info  the fea ;  io fhall the fea
 ' be calm unto you: for I know that  for my fake
 ' this great tempeft is  upon you,'  Jonah  i. 4. 12.
 In following the light  of divine  revelation, we ffiall
 fee  that God often chaflif;s  his  own  profeffed
 people for fins  which  he would  even pafs by in
 thofe   who n^ke no  pnhilcn  of  his  name.
 * You have I known of all the families of the earth,
 • therefore will  I punifh you for  all your iniquities,'
 Atr.os hi. 2.  The more diftinguifhed  a people are
 by their  privileges, the  more  highly aggravated
 are their iniquities : when we Jive in the midft of
 a  perverfe and  adulterous generation, we  are in-
 volved in  their guilt if  we do not mourn  over their
 fins.   ProfelTors oi the name of Jefus, in our cities,
 have a deep hand in the treipafs, by their not duly
 fanclifying  the Lord's  holy day, by their carelefs
 attendance on the ordinances of his grace,—their
 finful conformity  to the world,—their neglect  of
 family and fee ret prayer,—th.ir unfruitfulnefs un-,
 der the means  of grace,  and  by  their  want  of
 love to our Lord Jefus  Chrift, and to one another as
his friends,  ix  any fnould i\\y thrv are altogether
                                       innocent, 
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innocent, they only  deceive themfelves. No doubt
the Lord's own people do fall  in the common ca-
lamity, but they die  in peace.  Jofiah  fell  in bat-
tle, and yet died  in  peace ;  though it perhaps  in-
crcafed  the .pain of  his  wounds, that  he  finfully
plunged  himfelf into.the  war which occafloned his
death.  The Lord p rdons even  when he chaflifeth.
'  Thou waft a God that forgaveft them, though thou
'  tookefl  vengeance  of  their  inventions,'   Pfal.
xcix.  8.   To  fly  without  danger   argues  the
greateft  timidity;  to remain in  danger when  it
might be avoided  fhews  finful  temerity, and  de-
fcrvos to  be called preemption rather than faith.

   Objofl.  4th.  "  It is to be feared that thofe who ,
"  fled from our cities in time of  the  peftileoce,
"  were only actuated by  fear of loofing their lives,
"-and had  no  truft in the Lord."

   Anfwer. \\ hatever was  the motive, the Lord
has over-ruied  it as a me in  of  favr.ig  the lives  of
thoL'fands ;  and thereby has in an awful manner re-
buked all thofe cavillers,  who hue qoarrelled with
them. It is  ve.-y dangerous to judge  rafhly of men's
motives.  There were doubtlefs home who we:0hed
the matter in the balance  of the  fanctuary, and re-
moved from the danger upon a  deep conviction  of
                                            it. 
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its bejng prefent duty. - Alfo among thofe  who re-
mained, fome had not clearnefa in  their mind that
the* Lord called them to leave thetr homes.  Yet it
would not be a breach of charity, to fuppofe that o-
thers were actuated by very  felfifh motives,—the
expcnce attending a removal,  and  fears of  loofing
their property left behind, did doubtlefs  prevent
il em from going away:  of fuch  fome  have fallen
victims to their  avarice, or loft their dear relatives'.
Thofe who  had clearnefs in their mind to remove,
and  were fhut up in prow ience to  flay, were truly
objects of Chriftian fympathy.   We ali h-ve much
ground to lament our not truflingin the Lord, and
our  putting means of fafety in his place.

    Conclusion.  Fcom  what has happened thefe
years bygone, the  minds  of  many are dreadfully
diftracted with fears about  the  return  of the pefti-
lential and mortal fever.   Indeed,  when we confi-
der  the  fmall evidences  of its producing any gra-
cious effects upon thofe  who  furvive,  we have no-
thing to hope upon the ground of our own goodnefs;
but our  God h merciful;  * who can tell if God v. ill
' repent and  turn awo y hem his fierce an ;sr, that we
'  perifh  not.' Judgment is ' his act,  his ftranqe act :'
but ' he delighteth in  mercy.'  The minds of many
are  exceedingly alarmed  with a  number  of vain
                                     prophecies 
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prophecies and idle ftor'es of v'fions, all portending
the return of the  dreadful malady ; but * the Lord
* fruftrateth the tokens of liars, and maketh divin-
' ers mad;  he tumcth  wife  men backward, and
' maketh their knowledge foolifh,' Ifa. xliv. 25.  It
is  he alone who knows what is to come to pafs, and
it wet becomes us, with refignstion to his wil', to wait
the events, of the  holy providence of Him 'who does
' all things well,' and performeth the things appoint-
' ed for us.'  * Say to the righteous, it fhall be well
' with him,'—but * wo to the  wicked, it  fhall be
' ill with him,'  lh.. iii. 10. 11.   Let us ' fearch
' and try our ways, and  turn  again to the  Lord.
And we  ought always to fludy to be in a  ftate  of
habitual  and actual preparation  for the enjoyment
of that bleffed eflate,  when ' God fnall wipe away
' all tears from our eyes;  and  there fhall be no
' more death, neither forrow,  nor crying ;  neither
' fli.il 1 there be any more pain,' Rev. xxi. 4. ' And
' the ra'ifomed of the Lord, fnall return, and come
' to Zion with fongs, and everlafting joy  upon their
'h'eads: they  fhall  obtain joy and  gladnefs, and
'■ forrow and fighing fhall flee away,'  Ifa. xxxv. io.«
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