But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

The LORD is the help of my life

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.