The voice of God, in stormy winds. Considered, in two sermons, occasioned by the…

These Examples with many more, too long with the Circumstances of them to be here recited, should awaken the world out of its Lethargy: which would be the way to avert the Omen of such Portentous Providences. For we know that when the most high God sees cause to menace Nations, whether by His Word, or by His awful Works, these Threatenings are Conditional. When He speaks concerning a Nation to destroy it, if that Nation against whom He has Pronounced turn from their Evils, He will Repent of the Evil that He thought to do unto them. However it shall be, Certain it is, that the Voice of God who sometimes spoke to Job out of the Whirlwind is speaking to the Nations in that Stormy Wind which has Fulfilled His Word, in a manner most terrible.

These Examples with many more, too long with the Circumstances of them to be here recited, should awaken the world out of its Lethargy: which would be the way to avert the Omen of such Portentous Providences. For we know that when the most high God sees cause to menace Nations, whether by His Word, or by His awful Works, these Threatnings are Conditional. When He speaks concerning a Nation to destroy it, if that Nation against whom He has Pronounced turn from their Evils, He will Repent of the Evil that He thought to do unto them. However it shall be, Certain it is, that the Voice of God who sometimes spoke to Job out of the Whirlwind is speaking to the Nations in that Stormy Wind which has Fulfilled His Word, in a manner most terrible.

Nothing can be more Dangerous than for Mortals to Contemn dreadful Pro•• dences, ⟨p. 6⟩and in particular, Dreadful Tempests. A worthy Helvetian Divine, (Bart. Anhorn.) giveth us an account of an awful Judgment, which lately befell a very impious man in Suevia, where they are often visited with terrible Thunders. When some were gathering in their Corn, a Thunder Storm coming upon them, most of the Company hastened into their Houses: only one Atheistical man remained in his Cart. A Clap of Thunder breaking close by him without doing him any hurt, the Prodigious Heaven daring Atheist uttered such words as these, Charge again for thou hast not hit me! Immediately a second Thunder struck him Dead in a moment. The same Author speaks of another, who was wont profanely to Swear by the Thunder and Lightning. This man in the Month of July 1682. said, he had something else to do than to Die as yet: he was resolved to dispatch some business in the Country first. The next day after he had thus irreligiously Expressed himself, the Lightning by which he was wont to Swear, Killed him before he could be at leisure to Die, or could finish his Rural Affairs.