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The voice of God, in stormy winds. Considered, in two sermons, occasioned by the…
The voice of God, in stormy winds. Considered, in two sermons, occasioned by the dreadful and unparalleled storm, in the European nations. Novemb. 27th. 1703. / By Increase Mather. ; [Five lines of quotations]The voice of God, in stormy winds. Considered, in two sermons, occasioned by the dreadful and unparallel'd storm, in the European nations. Novemb. 27th. 1703. / By Increase Mather. ; [Five lines of quotations]
printed by T. Green for Nicholas Buttolph, 1704
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PROP. III. The God of Heaven has Holy Ends in it, when He does visit the Earth with dreadful Storms and Tempests. He has Infinite Reason for what He does: He does nothing in vain. In the Day of the Revelation of the righteous Judgment of God, all the world will see that at is so.
But more particularly;
1. Sometimes God sends dreadful Storms in Mercy. In mercy to those that are His. Some of the Elect of God, have by such Providences been brought to the acknowledgement of the Great God, so ⟨p. 27⟩as to seek and serve Him. Psal. 83.15. Persecute them with thy Tempest, and make them afraid with thy Storm, that they may seek thy Name. God sometimes causes Storms and Tempests to make men seek his Name, humbly to fall down before Him, and beg for his Favour. Some Careless, Graceless Souls have thereby been Awakened to Pray. Psal. 107.23. They that go down to the Sea in Ships, see the wonders of God in the Deep; He raiseth the Stormy Wind, they mount up to the Heaven, and go down to the Deep; they reel to & fro, & are at their wits ends: And, ver. 28. Then they Cry to the Lord, and He saves them out of their Distresses. Some that have lived without God in the world, yet when they have been in terrible storms at Sea, they have Cried and Prayed to God. And although' it be sadly true, that most commonly men that have done so, after the Storm is over, and they delivered from their Fears & Dangers, forget the God of their salvation. Nevertheless, it is not so with all. It is not wont to be so with the Elect of God, whom He hath purposes of mercy unto. They will never forget the Storms which they met with at Sea,