God's terrible voice in the city

If any profane mockers do reply against God, and reflect upon his righteousness and goodness towards his own people, because these judgments have fallen so sore upon London, the Glory of the Land, yea of the World, for the number of godly persons (as in scoff they call them) which dwell in it; if God were so righteous and favourable to the Godly, would he bend his bow, and shoot so many arrows amongst them as he did in the visitation by the Plague, whilst he suffered so many notoriously wicked persons to escape? would he send the Fire to consume so many habitations of the Godly, whilst the houses of the most vicious and vile were preserved? I shall labour to stop the mouths of such, who are ready to open them against the King of Heaven, by proposing to consideration these following particulars.

1. That Gods way is sometimes in the Sea, and his paths in the great Waters; and his foot-steps are ⟨p. 72⟩not known. Psal. 77. 19. That his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out. Rom. 11. 33. And that even then he is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works, Psal. 145. 17. And when clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his Throne. Psal. 97. 2. And when his judgments are a great deep, his righteousness is like the great Mountains. Psal. 36. 6. We do not understand all the mysteries of nature, neither are we acquainted with all the mysteries of State; and if there be some mysteries in Gods way of governing the World, and distributing temporal mercies and judgments, which we do not apprehend in every thing the meaning of, and cannot so fully trace Gods righteousness and goodness therein, let us say it is because our eyes are shut, and that we are covered with darkness: Therefore let us shut our mouths too, and seal up our lips with silence, not daring in the least to utter any thing which may derogate from these attributes in God, which are as inviolable and unchangeable as his very Being. This might be said if the reason were more abstruse than it is.