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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.
6. The confusion of the Offenders upon God's proceeding. A Whirlwind is not only a boisterous wind, that hurls and rolls every thing out of its place, but by its circular motion, by its winding to all points of the compass, it confounds things, and jumbles them together. It keeps not one point, but by a circumgyration toucheth upon all. Clouds like dust shall be blown in their face, and gum up their eyes. They shall be in a posture of confusion, not know what counsels to take, what motions to resolve upon; Let them look to every point of Heaven and Earth, they shall meet with a Whirlwind to confound them, and cloudy dust to blind them.
6. The confusion of the Offenders upon God's proceeding. A Whirlwind is not only a boysterous wind, that hurls and rouls every thing out of its place, but by its circular motion, by its winding to all points of the compass, it confounds things, and jumbles them together. It keeps not one point, but by a circumgyration toucheth upon all. Clouds like dust shall be blown in their face, and gumm up their eyes. They shall be in a posture of confusion, not know what counsels to take, what motions to resolve upon; Let them look to every point of Heaven and Earth, they shall meet with a Whirlwind to confound them, and cloudy dust to blind them.
7. The irresistibleness of the judgment. Winds have more than a Giant like force, a torrent of compacted Air, that with an invincible wilfulness bears all before it, displaceth the firmest Trees, and levels the tallest Towers, and pulls up bodies from their natural place. Clouds also are over our heads, and above our reach; When God places them upon his people for defence, they are an invincible security. Isa. 4.5. And when he moves them as his Chariot against a people, they end in an irresistible destruction; Thus the ruin of the wicked is described. Prov. 10.25. As the Whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more. It blows them down, sweeps them away, they irrecoverably fall before the force of it. What heart can endure, and what hands can be strong, in the days wherein God doth deal with them?