These Apprehensions, if they proceed from a Consciousness of Guilt, are the sad Warnings of Reason; and may excite our Pity, but admit of no Remedy. When the Hand of the Almighty is visibly lifted against the Impious, the Heart of mortal Man cannot withstand him. We have this Passion
represented in the Punishment of the
Egyptians
, tormented with the Plague of Darkness, in the
Apocryphal
Book. of
Wisdom
ascribed to
Solomon.