As the settling and establishment of the creature, is an effect or sign of his goodness, or as these tell us, that God is pleased: So when the Lord hurls the creature this way and that way, when he tosses it up and down, as if he cared not how, this is an argument of his anger; when Moses came down from the Mount, and saw what the people of Israel had done, how they had made a golden calf and polluted themselves with idols, such a passion of anger came upon him, that he threw the Tables of the Law out of his hand, and brake them. So, when the Lord would signify his displeasure, he throws the creature out of his hand, and breaks man against man, Nation against Nation (as a Potters vessel) one against another. The comfort and well-being of the creature, consist in this, that God holds it in his hand; if he do but let it go out of his hand it perishes, much more when he casts it with violence out of his hand. The Prophet (Hab. 3.8.) describing the great confusions which God made in the world, questions thus, Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses, and thy chariots of salvation? God being angry with the enemies of his people, made strange work amongst them; Rather then his people shall not be delivered, the world shall be confounded, Was the Lord angry with the sea? when he compelled the rivers to change their courses, and discover the bottom of their channels, as in the passage of his Israel through the red sea? No, God was not angry with the sea, but with Pharaoh and his host, with the oppressors and troublers of his Israel; and when he was thus angry, he checked the course of nature, and turned things up-side-down. When David was in a distress, and his ⟨p. 182⟩enemies encompassed him round about: what then? Then the earth struck and trembled, 1the foundations of the hills were moved and were shaken, because he was wrath (Psal. 18.7.) That, God might rescue David out of the hand of trouble, he troubled the foundations of the earth; he made the world shake and Kingdoms tremble, that his David might be settled upon his throne. The Lord threateneth (Hag. 2.6.) that he will shake the heaven and the earth, and the sea and the dry land; he will move all creatures, why so? He shakes them for the settling of his Zion (vers. 7.)
As the setling and establishment of the creature, is an effect or sign of his goodnesse, or as these tell us, that God is pleased: So when the Lord hurls the creature this way and that way, when he tosses it up and down, as if he cared not how, this is an argument of his anger; when Moses came down from the Mount, and saw what the people of Israel had done, how they had made a golden calf and polluted themselves with idols, such a passion of anger came upon him, that he threw the Tables of the Law out of his hand, and brake them. So, when the Lord would signifie his displeasure, he throws the creature out of his hand, and breaks man against man, Nation against Nation (as a Potters vessell) one against another. The comfort and well-being of the creature, consist in this, that God holds it in his hand; if he doe but let it goe out of his hand it perishes, much more when he casts it with violence out of his hand. The Prophet (Hab. 3.8.) describing the great confusions which God made in the world, questions thus, Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses, and thy chariots of salvation? God being angry with the enemies of his people, made strange work amongst them; Rather then his people shall not be delivered, the world shall be confounded, Was the Lord angry with the sea? when he compelled the rivers to change their courses, and discover the bottome of their chanels, as in the passage of his Israel thorow the red sea? No, God was not angry with the sea, but with Pharaoh and his host, with the oppressours and troublers of his Israel; and when he was thus angry, he check'd the course of nature, and turned things up-side-down. When David was in a distresse, and his ⟨p. 182⟩enemies encompast him round about: what then? Then the earth strook and trembled, 1the foundations of the hils were moved and were shaken, because he was wrath (Psal. 18.7.) That, God might rescue David out of the hand of trouble, he troubled the foundations of the earth; he made the world shake and Kingdoms tremble, that his David might be setled upon his throne. The Lord threatneth (Hag. 2.6.) that he will shake the heaven and the earth, and the sea and the dry land; he will move all creatures, why so? He shakes them for the setling of his Zion (vers. 7.)
- 1Tanta extiti• divinae irae vis pro David contra hostes defendendo, ut videbatur orbē invertere, omnia miscere, &c. Pined.Tanta extiti• divinae irae vis pro Davide contra hostes defendendo, ut videbatur orbē invertere, omnia miscere, &c. Pined.
