We may be Thankful, that the Winter it self is not so Hard, either as it might be, if God should make it so, or as it is now in some other Lands, yea, or as it has been heretofore among our selves. The Psalmist saw cause to say, in Psal. 147.17. Who can stand before His Cold? If God should carry on the Cold unto a little further Extremity upon us, there could be no Standing be sore it. Or, if the Cold which in its Extremity tarries usually but Three Days among us, were Extended for Three Mouths, instead of any Standing, there could be no Living for us. But, in the midst of the Cold, God Remembers Mercy. And Our Winters indeed are not so fiercely cold, as those of some other Countries. We are not, as Livy speaks of the Alps, Eternis Damnati Nivibus, D••om'd unto Eternal Snows! 'Tis not with us, as Olearius tells us, tis in Muscovia, where, Their Spittle will freeze ere it reach the Ground; and so violent is the Cold, that no Furs can hinder it, but sometimes mens Noses, Ears, Hands, and Feet, will be Frozen, and all fall off; And, as the Great Fletcher ⟨p. 42⟩has reported, not only they who Travel abroad, but many in the very Markers of their Towns are mortally pinched, so that you shall see many drop down in the […] & many Travellers brought home Dead and stiff in their Sleds. Which is a Report that S••••mundus ab Herberstein has also given us Nor is it with us, as Capt. James found it, in some of his Northern Coasting, where, when he and his Companions were a little while parted, they had their Face•, Hair, and Clothes, frozen over that they could not know each other, by their Habits, no, nor by their Voices: Nor, as where Gerat de U•er •wa•, when their shoes Froze as hard as Horns upon their Feet; nor were they able to wear them; Nor, as where Beauplan tells us, that without Good Precautions, the cold produces those Cancers, which in a few Hours destroy the parts they seize upon.
We may be Thankful, that the Winter it self is not so Hard, either as it might be, if God should make it so, or as it is now in some other Lands, yea, or as it has been heretofore among our selves. The Psalmist saw cause to say, in Psal. 147.17. Who can stand before His Cold? If God should carry on the Cold unto a little further Extremity upon us, there could be no Standing be sore it. Or, if the Cold which in its Extremity tarries usually but Three Days among us, were Extended for Three Mouths, instead of any Standing, there could be no Living for us. But, in the midst of the Cold, God Remembers Mercy. And Our Winters indeed are not so fiercely cold, as those of some other Countreys. We are not, as Livy speaks of the Alps, Eternis Damnati Nivibus, D••om'd unto Eternal Snowes! 'Tis not with us, as Olearius tells us, tis in Muscovia, where, Their Spittle will freeze e're it reach the Ground; and so violent is the Cold, that no Furs can hinder it, but sometimes mens Noses, Ears, Hands, and Feet, will be Frozen, and all fall off; And, as the Great Fletcher ⟨p. 42⟩has reported, not only they who Travel abroad, but many in the very Markers of their Towns are mortally pinch'd, so that you shall see many drop down in the 〈…〉 & many Travellers brought home Dead and stiff in their Sleds. Which is a Report that S••••mundus ab Herberstein has also given us Nor is it with us, as Capt. James found it, in some of his Northern Coasting, where, when he and his Companions were a little while parted, they had their Face•, Hair, and Cloaths, frozen over that they could not know each other, by their Habits, no, nor by their Voices: Nor, as where Gerat de U•er •wa•, when their shoes Froze as hard as Horns upon their Feet; nor were they able to wear them; Nor, as where Beauplan tells us, that without Good Precautions, the cold produces those Cancers, which in a few Hours destroy the parts they sieze upon.
