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

Again consider, the former context told us of storms and tempest•, of thunder and lightening, of snow and rain, driving men from their labour in the field, to their homes and houses, and the wild beasts of the fields to their dens and coverts: Now this text speaks of warmth, of calms, and quietness, He quieteth the earth by the South wind.

Again consider, the former context told us of stormes and tempest•, of thunder and lightening, of snow and rain, driving men from their labour in the field, to their homes and houses, and the wild beasts of the fields to their dens and coverts: Now this text speakes of warmth, of calmes, and quietness, He quieteth the earth by the South wind.

Hence observe; There is a continual vicissitude in natural things.

As no day of the year is of the same continuance or length as to light, so very few are of the same complexion or temper as to heat and cold, fair or fowl weather, storms or calms. Now if there be such a vicissitude in natural things, then do not wonder that there is a vicissitude in civil things, or in the affairs and conditions of men in this wo•ld. If after the fair weather of health and peace, the fowl weather of sickness and trouble come upon us, if after calms we meet with storms, let us not be troubled. A heathen Poet said,¹ We should not be diffident in a stormy day, that we shall never have quietness, nor should we be confident in a quiet day, that we shall never have a storm. David, a holy man, was once exceedingly out in both; in his adversity he said, I shall never be established; that was the sense of his saying, when in his haste he said, all men are liars (