Jer_21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Ver. 6. They shall die of a great pestilence.] See Jer_16:4; Jer_18:21. Hippocrates calleth the pestilence
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, the divine disease; because there is much of God’s hand in it, like as there was here in the sweating sickness, wherewith the English only were chased, not only in England, but in all countries. {a}