An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

¹It is reported by Josephus, describing this battle, that as soon as the armies joined battle, God sent a violent shower of hail, which (say some) being naturally caused by the influences of the stars or heavenly bodies, the stars may be said to have fought in their courses, like soldiers drawn up in battalia against Sisera and his army. And thus by great thunder the Lord discomfited the host of the Philistines in the days of Samuel, (1 Sam. 7.10.) The prophet gives out several threatenings under the notion of hail (Isa. 28.17. chap. 30.30.) and so doth that last prophecy (Rev. 16.21.) And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent. All ⟨p. 192⟩which places, though not taken literally and properly, but metaphorically and symbolically for great and sore judgements of one kind or other, yet are a clear proof that proper hail stones have sometimes been the instruments of Gods sorest revenge upon his hardened enemies.

¹It is reported by Josephus, describing this battel, that as soon as the armies joyned battel, God sent a violent shower of hail, which (say some) being naturally caused by the influences of the stars or heavenly bodies, the stars may be said to have fought in their courses, like souldiers drawn up in battalia against Sisera and his army. And thus by great thunder the Lord discomfited the host of the Philistins in the days of Samuel, (1 Sam. 7.10.) The prophet gives out several threatnings under the notion of hail (Isa. 28.17. chap. 30.30.) and so doth that last prophesie (Rev. 16.21.) And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent. All ⟨p. 192⟩