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A63939	An essay upon the works of creation and providence being an introductory discourse to the history of remarkable providences now preparing for the press : to which is added a further specimen of the said work : as also Meditations upon the beauty of holiness / by William Turner ...	Turner, W. (William), fl. 1687-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3346; ESTC R8093	77,474	214

be able to stand when God appears When this Great and Terrible God shall by the sound of this Trumpet or the Voice of an Arch-Angel summon the World to Judgment who shall dare to appear before him If the giving of the Law and the enacting or rather promulgation of our Religion upon Mount Sinai was so dreadful as Exod. 19.16 Chap. 20.18 19. What will the Great Assizes be when all the men that ever lived in the World shall be called to give up their last Account and receive their Final Doom Then Oh! Come ye Mountains and fall upon us and ye Rocks cover us and hide us from the Wrath of the Lamb Then Oh! Where will the Heart and Stoutness of the Presumptuous Sinner shew it self How will he that brav'd it here with the Almighty be able then to stand his Ground and maintain his Cause Psal 50.1 2 3 4. 3. Air and Winds which what to make of we know not 't is such an invisible and yet real Meteor that it will puzzle the Natural Reason of the most subtile Philosopher to tell the Nature of it The Air is so like the Nature of the Souls in our Bodies or a 〈◊〉 in general that we know little 〈◊〉 of either one or other than what we know by the sensible effects John 3.8 The Wind c. If Man be so dim in Naturals with what face can he boast his knowledge of Spiritual Objects We neither know the Air that surrounds us every where nor the Wind that whistles in our Ears nor the Souls that lodge in our own Bodies We are so blind so near home And 't is enough to make us blush at our own weakness and such ignorance should make us humble and such humility should make us learn and till we are thus qualified we are not fit to learn What a pround lump of Clay is foolish Man that cannot comprehend things so near him things meerly natural things so common and ordinary and yet will call every Point of his Religion even the sublimist Mysteries to the Tribunal of Mear Reason And edetermine in particular Branches and Punctilio's as peremptorily and decisively as if he had been Privy Counsellour to the Almighty and judge others censoriously unkindly for differing from him but in the lesser doubtful difficult Points of Religion and prosecute severely for not knowing and believing with equal clearness as himself But besides We are often wondring at the Nature of God himself and cannot tell how to frame a Notion of a Being every where present Is not the Air and Wind a fit Emblem to shadow-forth this Attribute of the Divinity to us Is not the Air in every Creviss of our Houses in our Nostrils in our very Bowels Doth it not fill the World and enter into the smallest pores of our Bodies and yet 't is but a Creature and we see it not Why should we think it such an impossible thing for the God of Heaven to fill all places with his Presence and yet be limited to no bounds nor visible to any Eyes The same word that we use to signifie Air is used also to express the Spirit of God by in almost all the Languages viz. Spiritus Latine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And we find the Spirit of God choosing sometimes to come down and shew himself under this representation as 1 Kings 19.11 12. to Elijah in a still small Voice qu. only the whistling noise of a Calm Air But Acts 2.2 to the apprehension in the sound of a rushing mighty Wind. I have one thing more to remark upon this Meteor as tending very much to set forth the Glory of God and that is its divers Vses and Effects 'T is a wonder that such a thin tenuious invisible Body as that is should serve for such diverse and excellent purposes Consider them and wonder It carries all the Fowls of the Air which would no more be able to fly without it than the Fishes of the Sea to swim without Water it bears up the heavy Clouds and fans purges and transports them from place to place so that we say truly as Psal 18.10 that the Divine Glory doth ride upon the Cherubs and flies upon the Wings of the Wind it is a Faithful Messenger in the Hand of the Almighty to bring Tokens of Kindness or Judgments to a People One while Flies and Caterpillars innumerable Frogs and Lice Plagues and pestilential infections another while Quails and Manna Flesh and Feather'd Fowl Rain Plenty and Prosperity In short it fans our Lungs and walks to and fro through our Nostrils every moment and we are not able to breath without it And yet this so useful so necessary so common a Creature we cannot see we cannot comprehend In God we live move and have our being he is within us and without us and we know him not and no absurdity in all this 4. I might add to these Storms and Tempests not as specifically different from them but yet such as may require a consideration by themselves I mean those more violent eruptions of Wind and Vapours or other watry Exhalations commixed as either by their suddainness or violence or surprizing and contrary motion seem prodigious or prove hurtful to us These are sometimes so dreadful that they overturn Trees Houses Cities over-run whole Countries with a deluge of Waters drowning or swallowing up the Inhabitants rending sometimes Rocks asunder and carrying them into the midst of the Sea sometimes dividing parcels of Land from the Continent and carring them into the Ocean for Islands of which Histories are full of Examples All that I shall remark upon this Particular is that as the Storms are of God's sending so they are subject to his Government Nah. 1.3 4. The Lord hath his way in the Whirlwind c. vide Psal 107.25 26 27 29. and Psal 148.8 The stormy wind fulfilling his word You know the story Mat. 8.23 24 25 26 27. But that which I drive at in these quotations is this that he who rules the raging of the Sea and stilleth the violent Storms of the Wind and Waters is able also to appease the madness of a People to hush the noise and tumult of the World into a deep silence to turn our Spears into Pruning-hooks and our Swords into Plough-shears to give us instead of a Storm a Calm in our own Breasts in our Houses and Families in our Churches and Nations Had not we best then in such cases arise from our sleep every one and call upon his God as Jonah 1.4 5 6. and if our Lord seem to sleep too let us go and awaken him in good earnest and say Lord save us or we perish And then he that keepeth Israel and never slumbers nor sleeps will arise and scatter our Enemies and shew himself mighty in our Salvation upon the ungodly he will rain down Snares Fire and Brimstone and an horrible Tempest This shall be the portion of their Cup Psal

11.6 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness his Countenance doth behold the upright 5. Hail Rain Snow and Frosts c. I will not stay now to shew the particular usefulness of all these in their Kind Order and Seasons nor if I cared to spend time upon it have I skill to do it perfectly Something might be said which perhaps every one is not well sensible of concerning the Wisdom as well as the Power and Goodness of God in using such a diverse method in manuring of the Earth and nursing of Sublunary Bodies I shall conclude this with only that emphatical exhortation of the Psalmist 147.12 ad finem 6. To pass over Eclipses Conjunctions and Rain-bows c. I shall instance only in Extraordinary Signs and Apparitions as that of Angels appearing to Abraham to Lot to Jacob to Manaoh to David to divers others the extraordinary chasms of Light in the Heavens at our Saviours Baptism his Transfiguration his Ascension the Cloud and Pillar of Fire to the Israelites the Darkness at our Saviours Passion the Holy Ghost in the likeness of a Dove the Apparition exhibited to Saul to St. Stephen the Revelations of St. John the Prodigies before the Destruction of Jerusalem Armies conflicting in the Air with a thousand more such wonders which I list not to relate particularly I confess they are often mixed with false incredible relations yet not therefore all to be rejected Our Saviour hath given us warning to expect some such Mat. 24. and Act. 2.20.19 and every Age almost is witness of some Miracle or other of this nature tho not so many as many would believe Even Heathen and Mahometan History as well as Christian give suffrage to this From the whole we have this lesson briskly intimated to us viz. if the outward insensate Heavens that are neither endued with Sense nor Reason but are of a bruitish nature declare to the World the Glory of God what would be expected from us men to whom all these Creatures are given but as Servants If these mute senseless things preach so expresly the Glory of Him that made them what should not man do who tho he lives in place below them yet is endowed with an Excellency far above them God himself sometimes appeals to them for testimony against us to upbraid our disobedience Hear O Heavens and give Ear c. All the Host of the Inferior Heavens keep their place and observe the Laws of their Creation the very Clouds and Winds obey him Only Man is an Vnruly Vndutiful Disingenuous Obstinate Thing that will neither keep his Orb nor serve the ends of his Creation nor attend his Masters Will nor pursue diligently his own Happiness Tho our Feet are upon the Earth our Heads reach above the Clouds and we are near akin to the other World and have very great concernments beyond the Stars and yet that we should let our Affections sink into the Earth and our Souls incline so strongly towards Hell For shame Sirs let us set forth the Glory of God a little better in our Generations than commonly we do Let us vye here upon the Earth by the excellency of our Conversations with those twinkling Lamps that shine over our Heads let it never be said to our disgrace that these senseless Creatures glorifie God better in their place than we Let our Faces our Graces outshine the Sun Let men look on the Humility Honesty Sobriety Charity Piety and Patience of our Lives and give Glory to Him that hath given such Graces unto Men and let these Graces never be darkned with any unworthy unchristian practices let us appear Glorious to the World and no Hypocrisie or Apostacy ever pull down our Professions or lay our Glory in the Dust It 's possible we may meet with strong with close Temptations O let not our shining Stars fall from Heaven nor let our Moon be turned into Blood and then we shall be shortly removed from Grace to Glory and shortly shine like Stars in the highest Heavens yea as the Sun in the Firmament for ever 1 Cor. 15.41 As we shine in Grace now so in Glory hereafter CHAP. VI. Of the Continuation of the Heavenly Bodies DAY unto Day uttereth Speech and Night unto Night sheweth Knowledge q.d. one Day informeth another and one Night gives in fresh evidence to another to prove the Truth of it Not a Day nor a Night passeth over our Heads but the Heavens preach this Sermon to us We have a Continual Rehearsal of this Doctrine from Age to Age from one Year to another from the beginning of the World to this present time This Preacher is never silent this Exercise never over All that I can think necessary to be said upon this particular may be referred to two Heads 1. The wonderfulness of this Continuation 2. The practical Lessons we should learn from it 1. Wherein the wonder of it lies 1. In the multitude of the Bodies concerned We observe of Mechanical Instruments made by the Hands of Men that an Engine consisting of very many wheels or very many Motions or other parts are the most difficult to be kept in order An Orchard with many Trees or Garden with many Herbs and Flowers require more Culture and dressing or some will decay A Society of many Members is apt to disorder 'T is a harder task to manage a Nation than a Family The Hosts of Heaven are Thousands and the Appurtenances relating to them more and yet all keep still their appointed Courses We have lost none of the Stars out of their Orbs since their first coming there Some People tell us of some new ones as that in Cassiopea which was first discovered in the Heavens about the beginning of the Reformation what Salvo to give for that I know not it may be it was there before but not discovered But however 't was a case extraordinary and no prejudice to the order of the rest we have lost none of our Seasons Day and Night Summer and Winter have kept their times The Sun its Revolutions the Moon its due Changes the Stars their proper Periods and exact motions the standing still of the Sun in Joshua's time and the going back of it on Ahaz Dial are Miraculous instances and not to be parallel'd in other Ages 2. The Greatness of them Small Bodies are easily managed and apt to motion but Great Ones move slowly according to the Course of Sublunary Nature But they in the Etherial Orbs are of so vast a bigness that that Consideration doth mightily accumulate and greaten the Wonder That the Sun Moon and Stars all of them so big should move continually without disorder or period is an Accent upon the Miracle 3. The various Qualities they are of and the different motions they make do yet raise the Wonder to a higher Strain to keep all one motion especially if all of one nature were not so very much but to move from East to West from West to East from North to South from