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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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2. This awful Providence should put us upon Earnest Prayer to God, that the Wrath of Heaven may not fall upon our Nation. For truly this Storm seems to be Ominous of a Storm of another Nature hastening on the Nation. The tearing up so many Trees by the Roots, makes me think of the threatening the Lord denounced against His People Israel, 2 Chron 7.20. I will pluck them up by the Roots, out of the Land I have given them. If when there was but Eighteen men destroyed by the fall of a Tower on them, it was an Omen to the Jewish Nation and to the City of Jerusalem, that their Towers should fall, that the Temple should fall, that the National Religion Established among them should fall: May we not fear, when not Eighteen only, but more than Eighteen Hundred have at once been taken out of the world, by a sudden unexpected ⟨p. 54⟩expected blow, that it may intimate terrible things coming on a Sinful Nation. But the most dreadful Omen of all is, he Sins ra•• are & have been in the Land. In one of the latter Reigns, the whole Land was overwhelmed with horrible Debauchery. And we may fear that there is yet a terrible Wrath from Heaven coming for those Sins. Moreover, The Caroline Persecution was a dreadful one. How many Thousands did then perish by cruel Imprisonments? Nay, how many Thousand Families were ruined, because they dared not sin against their Consciences? And although' in the Last, and in the Present Reign, (which the Lord make prosperous) indulgence is granted in matters relating to Conscience (that may be a lengthening of Tranquility;) Nevertheless, in the Day that God visits the English Nation, He will visit on the account of Former Iniquities, as well as for Latter ones. What a Glorious Reformation was there in Josiahs Reign? Yet 2 King. 23.26. God did not turn from the fierceness of His Anger, because of the Sins that Manasseh provoked him with. Manasseh the King of Judah had been Dead some scores of Years before ⟨p. 55⟩the Nation was destroyed for his sins. But there are still grievous Sins in the Nation. I mentioned it before, that the QUEEN in Her Proclamation for a Fast to be observed all the Kingdom over, because of the Displeasure of God manifested in that dreadful Storm, says there are Crying Sins in the Nation, which have drawn down that heavy Judgment. Alas that there are Heaven-daring provocations.