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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32805	Of God Almighty's providence both in the sending and dissolving great snows & frosts, and the improvement we ought to make of it a sermon occasioned by the late extreme cold weather, preached in it to his neighbours, and now thought fit to be made more public, for the common good / by Benj. Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1684 (1684)	Wing C382; ESTC R5822	19,660	35

When Job had spoken sundry Great Things of God he adds These are parts of his ways But how little a portion is heard of him but the Thunder of his power who can understand chap. xxvi xiv q.d. These are but a small parcel of his works For alas It is very little indeed that such as we can understand of him but the utmost Force of his power is quite out of our ken But then if we are posed in these vulgar Things which every were affect our Senses how absurd and presumptuous is it for us to pry boldly into more hidden mysteries or take upon our selves to contradict any of the Divine Revelations concerning them Canst thou by scarching find out God saith Zopar well Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection It is as high as Heaven what canst Thou do Deeper than Hell what canst thou know The measure thereof is longer than the Earth and broader than the Sea Job XI vii viii ix That is Thou maist as as well go about to take the measure of the height of Heaven or the Depth of Hell the length of the Earth or Breadth of the Sea as think to comprehend the Reasons of God's Doings Nay all These have their certain Bounds and Limits but He hath none We shall do well to make an Essay and try our selves first with the Resolving of the me mest of these common Instances which are about us before we presume upon those which are more Remote and Hidden And by this very means God himself silenceth Job shewing of him that He who found himself Gravel'd and Non-plus'd in accounting for the meanest of his visible works should nor dare to penetrate into the wisdom of his secret Counsels convincing him all along of his ignorance and weakness by shewing him how little he understood of the most obvious Things of the world And thus also our Blessed Saviour deals with Nicodemus St. John III. Tho the wind bloweth where it listeth saith he and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things Teach us saith Elihu in a due sense of humane infirmity and blindness what we shall say unto him for we cannot order our speech by reason of Darkness Fair or Cold weather cometh out of the North with God is Terrible Majesty Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out He is excellent in power and in plenty of Justice Job XXXVII xix c. Let me here put you in mind therefore of the counsel of the wise son of Sirach Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee neither search the things which are above thy strength but what is commanded thee think thereupon with reverence For it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret Be not curious in unnecessary matters for more things are shewed to thee than men understand For many are deceived by their own vain opinion c. Eccles III. xxi c. And then add that of the Author of the Book of Wisdom What man is he that can know the Counsel of God or Who can think what the Will of the Lord is For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable and our devices are uncertain For the corruptible Body presseth down the soul and the earthly Tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth and with labour do we sind the things that are before us But the things that are in heaven who hath searched out And thy Counsel who hath known except thou give Wisdom and send thy Spirit from above Wisd IX xiii c. There is more edifying and useful Truth and Philosophy which indeed should never be made two distinct things in saying that God bringeth the Rain and Hail and Snow and Winds out of his Treasures his to us unknown and unsearchable Magazines or Store-houses than in any particular reasons we can otherwise assign of them without or besides him IV. We learn from hence farther Not to expect or look for any setled or fixed state of affairs to last and abide long with us in a world that is continually uncertain and mutable liable to such variety of changes from his Almighty Word who presides and governs all things in it He trains us up by the very course of his Providence to look and provide continually for Changes even by the circular Revolution of the several Seasons of the year and the manifold difference which we feel and experience time after time in those Seasons The Spring introduceth Summer and Summer Autumn and Autumn Winter and then Winter again is succeeded by the more welcome Spring c. But we have a strange Interchange sometimes of Winterly weather with our Summers and Summer-weather again with our Winters The day is thine and the night is also thine saith the Psalmist thou hast prepared the Light and the Sun that is the Moon and Sun thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made them Summer and Winter Psal LXXIV xvi xvii The Heavens are thine the Earth also is thine Thou hast made the North and the South Psalm LXXXIX xii xiii Which if we would allegorize the Preacher tells us That God hath set the day of Prosperity and Adversity over against each other that man should find nothing after him Eccles VII xiv That is Nothing justly to blame or amend in God's works and yet be at continual uncertainty what shall befall him that he may live the rather in a submissive Dependence upon him who orders all according to the Counsel of his own Will even all things in Measure Number and Weight with the greatest Skill and Exactness though we know it not or cannot give an account of it Good is set against evil and Life against Death Yea Look upon all the works of the most High saith the son of Sirach and there are two and two one against another Eccles XXXIII xiv xv And again All things are double one against another saith he and he hath made nothing imperfect But one thing establisheth the good of another Ch. XLII xxiv xxv V. Therefore we are from hence trained up in the midst of our greatest Serenity and Happiness in our summer days of Prosperity to be moderate and sober considering how we and all we have and are related to are at the Disposal of the sovereign Ruler among the Children of men Who sendeth forth his Commandment upon Earth and his Word runneth very swiftly who can soon blacken our Skie with Clouds and from thence send forth his Artillery of Snow and Hail and Rain and Cold upon us This also is well expressed by the son of Sirach When thou hast enough remember the time of Hunger and when thou art Rich