Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

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? Ezek. 22.14. Thus is the judgment against Nineveh described; God hath his way in the Whirlwind to thunder down their strongest Walls, which were so thick, that Chariots could march a-breast upon them, and batter down their mighty Towers, which that City had in multitudes upon their Walls.

7. The irresistibleness of the judgment. Winds have more than a Gyant 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 ruine of the wicked is describ'd. 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? Ezek. 22.14. Thus is the judgment against Niniveh describ'd; God hath his way in the Whirlwind to thunder down their strongest Walls, which were so thick, that Chariots could march a-breast upon them, and batter down their mighty Towers, which that City had in multitudes upon their Walls.