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[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…
[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores of instances; among the people of New-England. Observed, collected, related, and improved; in two sermons, at Boston-lecture in the month of July 1697]
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1697
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The First Rule.
There is one thing in the Judgments of God, whereof we should always be Afraid; that is, Lest we do make an Injudicious Interpretation of them. It is a caution given to us, in Psal. 36.6. Thy Judgments are a great Deep, O Lord; ⟨p. 15⟩And we should be very cautious, Lest we drown our selves in such a Deep, when we go to Fathom it. The Judgments of God are those things, whereof 'tis said, Whose is Wise will Observe those things; but then we must be careful to proceed wisely in our observing of them. 'Tis a Dangerous Thing for us, to indulge our own Fancy, & much more, for us to indulge our own Passion, in making of Glosses upon the Judgments of G•d: God will not hold the man guiltless, who shall so take His Name in vain. Very sad Things may befall the People of God, which if we should call them the Judgments of God, upon them, for some crime or other, this would be as great a crime in us▪ as to Adulterate the Coin of the Nation. The Sovereign God, has made a Cross, to be necessary for all the Disciples of Him, who Died upon the Cross; and He will in His Infinite Sovereignty, make choice of their Cross for them, to Exercise their Virtue, and prepare them and ripen them, for His Heavenly Kingdom. If we should be so wicked, as to suppose a Curse of God upon all that we see under the Cross, Behold, we should wickedly offend against the Generation of the Children of God. When the Sons of that Excellent Minister of God, Aaron the Priest of the Lord, came to an untimely End, it had been a vile Impiety in the Congregation of Israel, to have persecuted their Worthy and Aged Father, with any Censorious Imputations The Judgments of God are ⟨image ?⟩like to arrest none sooner, than the Rash Expositors of His Judgments on other men. The Jealous God, will soon Draw near in Judgment, unto those who Persecute them whom He hath Smitten, and who Talk to the Grief of those whom He hath Wounded Our Lord has given us, a most wholesome Admonition, to be generally made use of, when sore Disasters happen unto any of our Neighbours, in