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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A DISCOURSE UPON GODS Patience.
NAHUM. I. Verse 3. The Lord is slow to Anger, and great in Power, and will not at all acquit the Wicked: The Lord hath his way in the Whirl-wind, and in the Storm, and the Clouds are the dust of his Feet.
THE Subject of this prophecy is Gods sentence against Nineveh, the Head and Metropolis of the Assyrian Empire. A City famous for its strength, and thickness of its Walls, and the multitude of its Towers for defence against an Enemy. The Forces of this Empire did God use as a scourge against the Israelites, and by their hands ruined Samaria the chief City of the Ten Tribes, and transplanted them as Captives into another Country, 2 Kin. 17.5, 6. about six years after Hezekiah came to the Crown of Judah. 2 Kings 18. compared with the 17 chap. v. 6. In whose time, or (as some think) later, Nahum uttered this prophecy. The Name Nahum, signifies Comforter, though the matter of his prophecy be dreadful to Nineveh, it was comfortable to the people of God: For a promise is made ver. 7. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them, that trust in him. And an encouragement to Judah, to keep their solemn Feasts, ver. 15. And also in chap. 2.3. with a declaration of the misery of Nineveh and the destruction of it.