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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
GOD is to be Praised, For Giving Snow like Wool.GOD is to be Praised, For Giving Snow like VVool.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Three PROPOSITIONS will come under our Consideration, all contained in the Doctrine.
PROP. I. That the Snow is fitly resembled to Wool. Snow like Wool says the Psalmist. And not only the Sacred writers, but others make use of this Comparison. The Grecians of old were wont to call the Snow, ERIODES HUDOR, Woolly Water, or wet Wool. The Latin word Floccus, signifies both a Lock of Wool and a Flake of Snow, in that they resemble one another. The aptness of the similitude appears in three things.
PROP. I. That the Snow is fitly resembled to Wool. Snow like Wool sayes the Psalmist. And not only the Sacred writers, but others make use of this Comparison. The Grecians of old were won't to call the Snow, ERIODES HUDOR, Wooly Water, or wet Wool. The Latin word Floccus, signifies both a Lock of Wool and a Flake of Snow, in that they resemble one another. The aptness of the similitude appears in three things.
1. In respect of the Whiteness thereof. Isa. 1.18. The Lord says to His People, tho' ⟨p. 72⟩your sins have been as Scarlet, they shall be white as Snow, tho' red like Crimson, they shall be as Wool. Scarlet and Crimson are of a red Colour, and Snow and Wool of a white. Although' there is Black Wool, and in some parts of the world there is Snow that will turn Red after it has lain long on the Earth, nevertheless, usually Whiteness is the Colour of it. It is a Scripture Expression, white as snow.