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

Here in the Text we have a Rod made of a Cloud, a strange kind of Rod; I'll send it for a Rod, it shall come for correction. Parents correct their children wi•h Rods, God corrects the world with Floods; first, with unseasonable, secondly, with superfluous Rains. O what severe corrections hath God laid upon the world by the Clouds! The Clouds have been terrifying, destroying Rods (Exod. 9.18, 23.) Clouds have destroyed the Fruits of the earth for the sin of Man, and taken away the hopes of the Harvest. Rain from the Clouds hath ruined the dwellings of men, and spoiled bo•h Co•n and Cattle; Rain from the Clouds was that overflowing scourge, which destroyed the whole earth in the days of Noah; then God caused the Cloud to come, I cannot say for correction, but for ruin, for an universal ruin and devastation. And as God then made the Clouds a ruin to the world, so he often makes them a correction (1 Sam. 12.18, 19. Ezra 10.9.) we have had many examples, both of sweeping Rains, and dreadful Thunders, Lightning and Tempest, coming forth from the Clouds.

Here in the Text we have a Rod made of a Cloud, a strange kind of Rod; I'le send it for a Rod, it shall come for correction. Parents correct their children wi•h Rods, God corrects the world with Floods; first, with unseasonable, secondly, with superfluous Rains. O what severe corrections hath God laid upon the world by the Clouds! The Clouds have been terrifying, destroying Rods (Exod. 9.18, 23.) Clouds have destroyed the Fruits of the earth for the sin of Man, and taken away the hopes of the Harvest. Rain from the Clouds hath ruined the dwellings of men, and spoyled bo•h Co•n and Cattel; Rain from the Clouds was that overflowing scourge, which destroyed the whole earth in the dayes of Noah; then God caused the Cloud to come, I cannot say for correction, but for ruine, for an universal ruine and devastation. And as God then made the Clouds a ruine to the world, so he often makes them a correction (