Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

To this might be added, the bridling the tumultuous passions of men for the preservation of human societies, which else would run the world into unconceivable confusions, Psal. 65.7. Which stilleth the noise of the Sea, and the tumults of the people. As also the Miraculous deliverance of a person or Nation, ⟨p. 39⟩when upon the very brink of ruin; The sudden answer of Prayer when God hath been sought to, and the turning away a Judgment, which in reason could not be expected to be averted, and the raising a sunk people from a ruin which seemed inevitable, by unexpected ways.

To this might be added, the bridling the tumultuous passions of men for the preservation of human societies, which else would run the world into unconceivable confusions, Psal. 65.7. Which stilleth the noise of the Sea, and the tumults of the people. As also the Miraculous deliverance of a person or Nation, ⟨p. 39⟩when upon the very brink of ruin; The suddain answer of Prayer when God hath been sought to, and the turning away a Judgment, which in reason could not be expected to be averted, and the raising a sunk people from a ruine which seemed inevitable, by unexpected ways.

3. Accomplishments of Prophecies. Those things which are purely contingent, and cannot be known by Natural signs and in their causes, as Eclipses and changes in Nations, which may be discerned by an observation of the signs of the times; such things that fall not within this compass, if they be foretold and come to pass, are solely from some higher hand, and above the cause of Nature. This in Scripture is asserted to be a notice of the true God, Isa. 41.23. Sh•w the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are God, and