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Meditation 1.
IT cannot chuse but be a grief unto a Christi∣an, to see how many murmur in this Visita∣tion; some fearing the Plague in their Persons, others in their Purses; some being loth to lose their Goods, others to leave the World, not fearing to say with despairing Cain, their Pu∣nishment is greater than they can bear; and thus do they undervalue Gods Mercy in his Ju∣stice, in whose Vial is not only Wine, but al∣so Oyl: Had he delivered us up to Famine, it would have been a Burthen farr more grievous; and had he delivered us up into the hands of our Enemies, as he hath done some Neigh∣bouring Nations, it had been likely, that our should not only have been banished from our Country, but that all hope should have been banished from us: How much better is it then, as David chose, to fall into the hand of God, than into the hands of Men; and to be visited with this Plague, than to be Plagued with our Enemies: The Lord give us grace to repent and amend, that he may cease to afflict us; and grant, that being once cleansed, we may sin no more, lest a worse Evil happen unto us.