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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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2. For the most part, such Storms are sent by the Providence of God as a sign of His Displeasure for the Sins of men. As Elihu said, Job 37.13. They come for Correction. They come as a Judgment. There is a real Truth couched in that Fiction of the Poet, That Pallas Destroyed a whole Fleet for the wickedness which one Ajax had been Guilty of. We know that Thousands fared the worse for the sin of one Achan. And certain it is, that the sin of one man in a Vessel, may cause the most High to send a storm that shall endanger all the Ships Company. Therefore Jonah made a most ingenuous Confession, Jon. 1.12. I know (said he) that this great Tempest is upon you for my sake. When there was an unusual Thunder Storm in the Land of Israel, Samuel told them that it was a sign of Gods displeasure, and that they had been guilty of great Iniquity in rejecting that Theocracy which they had been blest under, and desiring a Conformity in their Government to the heathen Nations. 1 Sam. 12.16, 17. When God ⟨p. 32⟩rained down an horrible Tempest on Sodom and Gomorrah, it was because there were Crying Sins in that place. And as to that dreadful Storm in the Nations of Europe, which has occasioned me to Preach on this subject, we may believe that it is come as an intimation of the Displeasure of the most high God, and that He has a Controversy with the Nations. The Anger of God is often in Scripture set forth by that Metaphor and Comparison of Stormy Winds. Jer. 23.19. A whirlwind of the Lord shall go forth in fury. God said concerning the Wall that the False Prophets had been building, Ezek. 13.13. I will rend it with a Stormy Wind in my Fury. Stormy Winds are oftentimes a sign of Gods Fury. And so may we fear with respect to the late Storm in the European Nations. The Queen of England has Published a Pious Proclamation, In which She declares, that the like astonishing Calamity has not befallen that Kingdom in the memory of any person living therein. And that She must needs acknowledge it is a Token of Divine Displeasure, and that it was the Infinite Mercy of GOD, that the QUEEN and all Her