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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 2: USE II.
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USE II.
Let us hence be Exhorted to make a due Improvement of that dreadful Storm that the Lord has sent among the European Nations: The astonishing tidings whereof, arrived to us in America, a few days since. We may not think that because we were afar off from the Fury of that Storm, that therefore we need not to have any concerned thoughts ••out it. It was said to those that we•e afar off from Jerusalem, Jer. 51.50. You that have escaped the Sword, remember the Lord afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your minds. Even so, We that have escaped the Destruction of that Stormy Wind, yet ought to remember what the Lord has done afar off: and let it come into our minds. For truly, the Providence of God was very Extraordinary in it. Whether we speak of the Extent of it, which has been beyond what has been ordinarily known. For it raged not only in England, but in Holland, and the Spanish Netherlands, and France, Hamburg, and in many places in Germany, Denmark, and all along the Coast of the ⟨p. 50⟩Baltic Sea. Or, if we speak of the dismal Devastations made by it: Come and behold the Works of the Lord, the Desolations which He has made in the Earth. We hear that in France, their Capital City received much Damage, and all the Neighbouring Country, besides several other places. In that Kingdom, it is said that Calais, and the City of Roan have suffered very much; & that Eight French Ships of War were Destroyed by that Stormy Wind. And no Question but that whole Kingdom has received more Damage by it, then we are as yet informed of. In the Spanish Netherlands, no less than Six Cities were shattered by it as if they had been Bombarded. In Ostend, a third part of the Town destroyed, and an Hundred Ships lost. In Holland, several Villages at the Texel laid under water. In Friesland, the Sea broke in upon them, and overwhelmed a Fourth part of the Country. And in England we know that it was Dreadful. Several Ships of War, and Hundreds of other Vessels lost. And it is supposed that not less than Seven Thousand Seamen perished: Many Houses utterly demolished, and many more greatly defaced.