Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine…

But GOD was ever seen in those Mountains! At last, he cries out, I shall one day perish. Ziklag is burnt, and all he had is carried away, and his very Friends talk of Stoning him. Here is what we may with Good Sense call, The Last Extremity! Well, O David, Now Encourage thy self in the Lord thy GOD: Thou shalt be upon the Throne immediately! When has the Poor Widow, her Supplies brought in unto her? Truly, When She is come to the Last Handful of Meal in the Barrel, the Last Spoonful of Oil in the Cruse. The Three Worthies are thrown into the tremendous Furnace. How Seasonably does the SON of GOD step down to cover them? Daniel is thrown down to the hungry Lions. How Seasonably does the Messenger of GOD step down to Muzzle them? Is it possible for peter to be delivered! Why He is to Die the Next Day; Heavy Fetters are upon him; cruel Keepers are about him; A strong Prison holds him in the straitest Custody. But GOD sends down from Heaven; and Peter is on the Next Day Preaching to the People of GOD. Who would have imagined it? How often is Paul just upon the very Point of being offered up? Once he says, Act. XXVII. 20. All hope that we should be saved, was then ⟨p. 14⟩taken away. But still, Paul when thus Dying Daily, yet, Behold, He Lives! Doubtless, Many of those who felt the Healing Miracles of our SAVIOUR, were Healed, with very Unexpected Cures. A Learned Physician, has written an Essay of much Erudition, to prove, That they were all Incurable by any other Hand, but our SAVIOURS, Ask among the People of GOD: How many will you find, who have had the Mercy of GOD coming unto them, when like Epaphroditus, they have been just Nigh unto Death? How many have been brought into the comfort of a Calm, when the Tempest caused 'em to cry, with the Disciples in theirs, Lord, Save us; or we perish in a Moment! How many brought out of Perplexity, when the Extremity has been such as to throw them into an uncommon Agony? Of our GOD and SAVIOUR we may say, These are part of His ways; But how little a portion is heard of them!

But GOD was ever seen in those Mountains! At last, he crys out, I shall one day perish. Ziklag is burn't, and all he had is carried away, and his very Friends talk of Stoning him. Here is what we may with Good Sense call, The Last Extremity! Well, O David, Now Encourage thy self in the Lord thy GOD: Thou shalt be upon the Throne immediately! When has the Poor Widow, her Supplies brought in unto her? Truly, When She is come to the Last Handful of Meal in the Barrel, the Last Spoonful of Oyl in the Cruse. The Three Worthies are thrown into the tremendous Furnace. How Seasonably does the SON of GOD step down to cover them? Daniel is thrown down to the hungry Lions. How Seasonably does the Messenger of GOD step down to Muzzle them? Is it possible for peter to be delivered! Why He is to Dy the Next Day; Heavy Fetters are upon him; cruel Keepers are about him; A strong Prison holds him in the straitest Custody. But GOD sends down from Heaven; and Peter is on the Next Day Preaching to the People of GOD. Who would have imagined it? How often is Paul just upon the very Point of being offered up? Once he says,