The great Puritan divine tells us: "Plagues are some of those woes, with which the Divil troubles us.

It is said of the Israelites, in 1 Cor.10.10.THEY WERE DESTROYED OF THE DESTROYER.

That is, they had the Plague among them.

'Tis the Destroyer, or the Divil, that scatters Plagues about the World: Pestilential and Contagious Diseases, 'tis the Divel, who do's oftentimes Invade us with them.

'Tis no uneasy thing, for the Divel, to impregnate the Air about us, with such Malignant Salts, as meeting with the Salt of our Microcosm, shall immediately cast us into that Fermentation and Putrefaction, which will utterly dissolve All the Vital Tyes within us; Ev'n as an Aqua Fortis, made with a conjunction of Nitre and Vitriol, Corrodes what it Siezes upon.