An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

God gives as clear signs of the changes that shall be in times, as he doth concerning the change of the weather: And that's one thing which doth very much fore-show it, when God puts it into the hearts of his Ministers unanimously to fore-warn approaching troubles. Such warnings were given to Jerusalem, not only by Christ,¹ but afterward by others. Josephus in his History reports of one that could not by any punishment be stopped from crying up and down the City, for several years, after this manner, A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem, and a voice against the Temple. There was also (as the same Author reports) a voice heard in the Temple, Let us depart hence. The Jews generally would not believe these voices, but went on and were angry when any told them of a Cloud coming over their day, yet they found them all verified in the subversion of their city, by the Romans. Such fore-warnings were given the Palatinate, and other parts of Germany, before those great evils came upon them. Some way or other God ⟨p. 426⟩hath always showed when these showers were coming; and when a people grow weary of their warnings, when they grow more profane and wicked under them, this is a sure sign, a fatal prognostic, that God is coming with a shower of wrath, and is ready to pour down a storm of vengeance upon them. And surely these warnings, both with respect to natural changes in the Air, and civil changes in the affairs of this World, argue the wonderful goodness of God, that he would have us prepare for all dispensations: He will not send a shower of rain, but would have us prepared for it; and when he is about to send those great showers of Judgment upon the world, he would have his people ready and prepared, and therefore by some means or other he tells them before hand what is at hand.

God gives as clear signs of the changes that shall be in times, as he doth concerning the change of the weather: And that's one thing which doth very much fore-shew it, when God puts it into the hearts of his Ministers unanimously to fore-warn approaching troubles. Such warnings were given to Hierusalem, not only by Ch•ist,¹ but afterward by others. Josephus in his History reports of one tht could not by any punishment be stopt from crying up and down the City, for several years, after this manner, A voyce from the east, a voyce from the west, a voyce from the four windes, a voyce against Jerusalem, and a voyce against the Temple. There was also (as the same Author reports) a voyce heard in the Temple, Let us depart hence. The Jewes generally would not believe these voyces, but went on and were angry when any told them of a Cloud coming over their day, yet they found them all verified in the subversion of their city, by the Romans. Such fore-warnings were given the Palatinate, and other parts of Germany, before those great evils came upon them. Some way or other God