When ruin was hanging over Nineveh, Jonah is commanded to cry against it, Jonah 1. 2. Crying sins call for crying preachers; and when He slept in that terrible tempest which was upon the ship, the Master of the ship awakened him, What ailest thou O sleeper? arise and call upon thy God, Jon. 1. 6. We have had amongst us the confused noise of the battle of the Warrior, 1and garments rolled in blood, 2the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing of the horses, and of the ⟨p. 3⟩jumping of the Chariots, of the bright sword, and the glittering Spear. And this should have awakened us to return, and to seek the Lord.3 For certainly it is through the Lords wrath, that the people of a Land are as the fuel of fire, no man sparing his brother. But his anger is not turned away, his hand is stretched out still. And if our ears were well awakened, I fear we should hear a more dreadful noise then that of the Warrior, the noise of the wings of the living Creatures, Ezek. 1. 24. the glory of the Lord in his Church threatening to depart from us, as he did from his people Judah, Ezek. 9. 3. 10. 18, 19. 11. 22, 23. I have therefore made choice of these words of this Trumpet-sounding Prophet Hosea, that we may be awakened to cry mightily unto God, and to hold him fast, and not let him go, to repent and do our first works, least he come quickly and remove our Candlestick out of his place, as he threatened to do unto the Church of Ephesus, Rev. 2. 4, 5.
When ruine was hanging over Nineveh, Jonah is commanded to cry against it, Jonah 1. 2. Crying sinnes call for crying preachers; and when He slept in that terrible tempest which was upon the ship, the Master of the ship awakened him, What ailest thou O sleeper? arise and call upon thy God, Jon. 1. 6. We have had amongst us the confused noise of the battel of the Warrier, 1and garments rolled in blood, 2the noise of the ratling of the wheeles, and of the prancing of the horses, and of the ⟨p. 3⟩jumping of the Chariots, of the bright sword, and the glittering Speare. And this should have awakened us to returne, and to seek the Lord.3 For certainly it is through the Lords wrath, that the people of a Land are as the fuel of fire, no man sparing his brother. But his anger is not turned away, his hand is stretched out still. And if our eares were well awakened, I feare we should heare a more dreadful noise then that of the Warriar, the noise of the wings of the living Creatures, Ezek. 1. 24. the glory of the Lord in his Church threatning to depart from us, as he did from his people Judah, Ezek. 9. 3. 10. 18, 19. 11. 22, 23. I have therefore made choise of these words of this Trumpetsounding Prophet Hosea, that we may be awakened to cry mightily unto God, and to hold him fast, and not let him go, to repent and do our first works, least he come quickly and remove our Candlestick out of his place, as he threatned to do unto the Church of Ephesus, Rev. 2. 4, 5.
- 1Isa. 9. 5.
- 2Nahum 3. 2, 3.
- 3Isa. 9. 19.
