[Terribilia Dei. Remarkable judgements of God, on several sorts of offenders, in several scores…

And there is another Contempt of the Gospel, which we have often seen another way chastised among us. Our Lord Jesus Christ hath said concerning the Faithful Ministers of His Gospel, in Luk. 10.16. He that Despiseth you, Despiseth me. When the Ministers of the Gospel, are Holy Prayerful, Painful, Watchful, and Fruitful Servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, and men Filled and Acted with His Holy Spirit: We have seen the Judgments of God many a Time, Arresting those that have Abused these Ambassadors from the King of Heaven. Thus, there have been Angry men among us, who have sat over their Cups, Railing at such or such a Minister of God, and Hoping ⟨p. 33⟩ere long to see the Death of him▪ In a little while they themselves have Dyed miserably, and on their Death-beds, they have cried out for that very Minister to help them in their Anguishes. Yea, you may sometimes mark it in our Churches; A Church has long Enjoyed an Excellent Minister; but they grow at length full of unaccountable prejudices against him; The Son of God seeing this their Froward Folly, sends for that Minister away to Heaven presently; & let 'em supply themselves with such another when they can find •im! If unto these things, I should add, That the Impoverishing Judgments of God upon our Land, have been very much for that Abominable Sacrilege ▪ wherein the Ministers of Christ almost all the Land over, have been as much defrauded of their Dues, as if you should withhold the Wages of your Servants, [which is a Sin that cries to God for Vengeance!] I could quote Scripture enough, to give Authority unto that Assertion. Scripture! Yea, and Experience too. A Town in this Country, Enriched with Two very Eminent Ministers, did one year pass a Town Vote, That they could not allow their Ministers above Thirty Pounds a piece that year, for their Salaries; and behold, the God who will not be mocked, immediately caused the Town to lose Three Hundred Pounds, in that Specie of their Cattle, by one Disaster. But I forbear it; for though the Judgments of God go on to break