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

First, Let us see what a powerful and mighty God we have! When it thunders, every believing soul may •ay, This is the Voice of my Father; what cannot he do for me that can speak thus?

First, Let us see what a powerful and mighty God we have! When it thunders, every believing soul may •ay, This is the Vo•ce of my Father; what cannot he do for me that can speak thus?

Secondly, If God hath such a dreadful Voice, if he thunder with his Voice, we should learn to secure, aim, and fence •ur selves against the dread and danger of Thunder, by the actings of Faith in him, and of Repentance and godly Sorrow for our sinnings against him. Some of the Heathens have given pitiful counsel what to do in time of thunder. Seneca was a wi•e man,¹ yet he directs to poor shifts, in such extremities; The remedies (saith he) against Thunder and the Batteries of the heavens, are underground houses, caves or holes of the earth, to hide our selves in. These were the best helps he could advise his Roman Gallants to, when God uttered his mighty voice in Thunder. But Christians know better how to hide themselves, even in the goodness of God, against those terrible appearances of his Power.

Secondly, If God hath such a dreadful Voice, if he thunder with his Voice, we should learn to secure, aim, and fence •ur selves against the dread and danger of Thunde•, by the actings of Faith in him, and of Repentance and godly Sorrow for our sinnings against him. Some of the Heathens have given pittiful counsel what to do in time of thunder. Seneca was a wi•e man,