, for which he has been justly censured by the greatest Criticks. I do not know any imaginary Person made use of in a more sublime manner of thinking than that in one of the Prophets, who
God as descending from Heaven, and visiting the Sins of Mankind, adds that dreadful Circumstance, Before him went the
Pestilence
. It is certain this imaginary Person might have been described in all her purple Spots. The
Fever
might have marched before her,
Pain