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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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The Voice of GOD IN Stormy Winds. › SERMON II. › Application 1: USE I.
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Although' Nebuchadnezzar in making War upon the Jews had his Ambition and Revenge, he fulfilled the Word of the Lord in what he did. It is therefore said, 1 Chron. ⟨p. 41⟩6. 15. The Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Twas God that did it, tho' Nebuchadnezzar was the instrument. That Whirlwind out of the North, could never have overset the City of Jerusalem, if the Word of the Lord had not been in it. Lam. 3 37. Who is he that says and it comes to pass, if the Lord Command it not? The Emperor of Babylon might determine to lay Jerusalem wast, but it would never have come to pass, if the Lord had not Commanded it. But especially when there is (as at this Day there is) a Flame of War broke out among many Nations, the Word of the Lord has done it. When there is a War in which many Nations are concerned, it causes a mighty Storm in the Earth. Thus when the two Greatest Kings in the world fell out, and were engaged in a bloody War. (Namely, the King of Persia, and the King of Babylon,) it put a great part of the Earth into a Combustion. There was in it a notable fulfilment of the Decree and Providence of God, and of what the Prophet Isaiah had foretold, who had Prophesied of a Tumultuous noise of Nations, and Kingdoms, the Lord of ⟨p. 42⟩Hosts mustering them for the Battle. Isa. 13.4. So then, such things on the Earth are ordered by the Hand of Heaven.
Altho' Nebuchadnezzar in making War upon the Jews had his Ambition and Revenge, he fulfilled the Word of the Lord in what he did. It is therefore said, 1 Chron. ⟨p. 41⟩6. 15. The Lord carried away Judah and Jerusalem, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Twas God that did it, tho' Nebuchadnezzar was the instrument. That Whirlwind out of the North, could never have overset the City of Jerusalem, if the Word of the Lord had not been in it.