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ourselves of dust and sin, to tremble and quake 

 at the wrath of this dread Lord of the universe ; 

 at whose voice alone, the great emperor Caligula* 

 runs under the bed; and the mighty Belshazzar sf 

 loins are loosed, and his knees knock one against 

 another, when God but writes bitter things against 

 him on the wall. 



It were a vain affectation, to attempt a descrip- 

 tion of the greatness of our late horrible devasta- 

 tion. This were to be Ambitiosus in 7naUs, to 

 chew over all our wormwood and our gall again : 

 this were Rogum ascipolire, which the xii tables 

 forbad, to carve and paint the wood of our fune- 

 ral pile. I shall only call back your thoughts to 

 stand with me upon the prospect of that horrid 

 theatre of the Divine judgments, and say, :[:Come 

 hither, and behold the Works of the Lord, what 

 desolation he hath made in the earth ; — and then 

 who will not join with me to say, upon so con- 

 vincing an occasion, We humble ourselves under 

 the Almighty Hand of God, the Lord of all the 

 world; we adore his Power and Majesty in lowly 

 prostrations ; before whom all the nations of the 

 world are as a §drop of the bucket ; the globe of 

 the earth, as the small dust of the balance ; and 

 who taketh up the isles (even our Great Britain's 

 too, as we call them) as a very little thing. 

 II Great and marvellous are thy Works, O Lord 

 God Almighty! Who would not fear thee, and 



^ Siieton. 1. V. 11. 51. t Dan, v. 6. \ Psm. xlvi. 8. 



§ Isa. xl. 15. I! Apoc, XV. 3;, 4, 



