London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…

When the Lord hath any service for the wind to do, it is presently upon the march, to run and dispatch his errands, whether of indignation or of mercy. If the Lord General of Heaven and Earth, the great, the supreme Commander of the winds, will have them to destroy a people, and to help on the destruction of their houses, when the flames are kindled; or to break and dash in pieces their Ships at Sea, it shall soon be accomplished, 2 Chron. 20 37. Because thou hast joined thy self with Ahaziah, the Lord hath broken thy works, and the Ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. B••st•ro•s winds at Sea or a shore, are the arrows of God sh•t out of the bended bow of his displeasure; they are one of the lower tier of his indignation, that is fired upon the children of men, Nahum. 1. 3. The Lord hath his way in the whirl wind, and in the storm, and in the clouds are the dust of •is feet. The great Spanish Armada that came to invade our Land in 88. were broken and scattered by the winds: So that their ⟨p. 19⟩dice games were frustrated, and they sent into the bottom of the Sea, if not into a worse bottom. And when Charles the V. had besieged Algiers (that Pen of Thieves) both by Sea and by ¹Land, and had almost taken it, by two terrible Tempests, the greatest part of his great Fleet were destroyed, as they did lye in the Harbour at Anchor. Ships, Houses, Trees, Steeples, Rocks, Mountains, Monuments can't stand before a tempest• ous wind. 1 Kings 19. 11. A great strong wind rent the Mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks. What more strong than Rocks and Mountains? and yet they were too weak to stand before the strength of a tempestuous wind. Oh the terrible execution that God doth many times by the winds both at Sea and ashore.