noise of the Seas the noise of the waves and the tumults of the people It is the same power of God that doth both and the same power that must still the tumult of a mans own heart 3. From the third particular The Winds are sent to fulfill the word of Gods threat Vse 1. How sure then are Gods threats to be fulfilled when all Gods creatures are appointed to see them fulfilled every creature stands ready as if it said Lord shall I go to make good such a threat gone out against such a man for such a sinne committed at such a time if God saith to the winds goe pursue him attach him never cease until my word be fulfilled against him certainly they will go and will fulfill Gods word to the utmost although it be for thy utter ruine and sending thee downe to thine owne place although some word of Gods threat may seeme to lye as it were dead a while yet God hath wayes to raise it up and to make it good to the full and amongst other meanes this creature is often used for this end 1 Sam. 3. 12. In that day saith the Lord I will performe all the things which I have spoken against Eli. The words are I will raise up all the words I have spoken against him it may bee there hath beene some word of threat lien long against thee now the Winds are sent to raise up this word let it lye never so long it must rise at the last all the powers in Heaven and Earth will work to raise it up rather then it shall alwayes lye thus it certainly must rise at one time or another and as it is vers. 19. None of the words of the Lord shall fall to the ground The expression is Metaphoricall from a dart cast at an enemy if it be cast by a weak hand or not directed right instead of sticking in the thing it is cast at it falls to the ground but Gods words spoken by the Prophets shall not doe so they will be as darts that shall certainly sticke in the sides of wicked men and none of them shall fall to the ground and amongst other meanes the mighty Winds are sometimes used by God to carry the dart of the Word of his threat strongly upon Conscience to make it sticke fast and to abide untill it fulfills Gods purpose and not fall to the ground 2. Here you see what a dangerous thing it is to bee especially to goe to Sea under the power of a threat as soone as God hath thee at Sea if hee calls for a Wind out of the treasures of his wrath and bids it fulfill such a threat where art thou it is a bold adventure for thee to put out to Sea before thou hast cleared all with God and thine owne Conscience if all bee cleare then the blessing of Zebulun Deut. 13. 26. may be upon thee Rejoyce O Zebulun in thy going out Zebulun was the Mariners Tribe and his blessing was to rejoyce in his prosperous voyages in his expectation of them to rejoyce when hee went out when hee set to Sea if before your going out you have made all peace betweene God and you so that there be no word of threat to be fulfilled upon you then but not before can you rejoyce at your going out 3. When thou art in any danger in regard of stormy Winds consider advise with thy conscience what threat it is against what sinne of thine the word of the Lord is gone forth that this stormy Wind comes to fulfill conscience will tell thee here is a terrible tempest and it comes to fulfill the word of the Lord that word of the Lord that thou hast sleighted contemned despised now comes this tempest to put honour and majesty upon that word and to fulfill it it cryes out to thee the word of the Lord the word that thou heardest such a day against such a sinne in such a place thou hast escaped it all this while thou thoughtest thy selfe free from it out of its danger but now it pursues thee it comes in this stormy wind to be fulfilled on thee Thou thoughtest the Word was but as wind and that that wind should shake no corne as Jer. 5. 13. The Prophets shall become wind now they become Wind indeed I remember I have read a story that Hospinian in his History of Jesuites relates of Henricus a Jesuite at Ingolstate who said in his Sermon that it was no good signe of a Catholike to joy much in hearing of Sermons but rather the signe of an Heretike who delight themselves with those things as the Ape with a nut for saith he Sermons passe away presently as wind but his delight is to heare many Masses is this a distinguishing sign between a Catholike and an Heretick fit for a Iesuite to give such vile unworthy thoughts have carnall hearts of the Word but it is indeed and shall be Wind that shall shake thy heart one day although for the present it seemes to be hardened as the Rocke Isa. 63. 6. we read of a threat that their iniquities like the Wind should take men away the guilt of thine iniquity together with the stormy Wind is like to take thee and carry thee away to thine owne place when the stormy Wind blew so as it endangered those Mariners in the 1 of Jonah the text saith They consulted to cast lots that they might know for whose cause it blew It is good for thee when thou art in a stormy Wind to consult with thine owne heart is not this tempest raised against me for my sinne surely if thou wouldest aske the question to thine owne heart for what cause is it that it is so dreadfull the answer will be it is because thou hast not fulfilled the Word of the Lord by thy humiliation before it by thy obedience unto it and therefore it comes now to fulfulfill the Word of the Lord upon thee 4. If ever you have escaped dangerous Tempests learne for ever to have higher thoughts of the Word of the Lord then you have had to reverence it to humble thy soule before it to obey it Oh let me fulfill the Word of the Lord now by humiliation by obedience that the stormy Wind do not doe it so as shall be more grievous to me if yet thou darest resist his word when the Lord shall have raised againe another stormy Wind and caused his terror to be upon thee it may be then thou wilt cry O Lord now I wil fulfill thy Word Lord deliver mee and I shall be more carefull for ever to fulfill thy word thy word that commands mee to keepe thy Sabbaths thy word that commands mee to sanctifie thy Name thy word that commands me to bee chast and sober and religious Lord if my life may be spared it shall appeare I will regard thy word more then ever I have done God may then answer nay this stormy Wind shall fulfill my word I will rather have my glory out
East Wind carrieth him away and a storme hurleth him out of his place You know the speech of Eliah to Ahab when he see the clouds arise make haste lest the raine prevent you 1 King 18. 44. so I to you make haste lest the storme prevent you when an enemy takes in a Towne by storme it is very terrible Oh how dreadfull then will it bee to that people whom the Lord shall come against as an enemy and after many offers of conditions of peace rejected he shall take them in by storm It is the pride of mens hearts that is the cause they feare not this wherefore my prayer shall be according to that of the Psalmist Psal. 83. 15. Lord make them afraid of thy storme I doe not I will not pray as in the former part of the verse Lord persecute them with thy tempest Oh no if it may bee the Lord keep it from them neither doe I pray Lord make them afraid with thy storme but Lord make them afraid of thy storme For the second how terrible are stormes raised and raging in mens consciences When the wrath of God in a mans soule shall persecute him as the Wind as Job complaines chap. 30. 15. Terrors are turned upon mee they pursue my soule as the Wind and chap. 9. 17. Hee breaketh me with a tempest When God shall say to Conscience goe persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storme after great calmes there useth to arise grievous stormes many of you have had a long calme of peace and prosperity you may expect a storme a comming God who is said Psal. 107. 29. to make the storme a calme can as soone make thy calme a storme the vapors that cause the tempest arise insensibly but when they grow to a tempest they have mighty power so sinnes are committed and multiplyed insensibly they lie by heaps in the conscience you feele nothing of them now but at last if you looke not to it they will cause a dreadfull tempest and especially when the hearts of men are most swelling with pride Mariners observe that usually before great tempests there are great swellings at Sea it is so usually before great Conscience-tempests the more swelling any wicked mans heart is the neerer the more dreadfull is the tempest like to be Many of you have in your time beene in most fearefull tempests that have made your hearts to ake within you but you must looke for another manner a more dreadfull tempest when not vapors in the ayre but the wrath of an infinite God in the Conscience shall shake and rend your hearts the terrors of the Lord following you will cause another manner of rage in the heart then ever stormy wind caused in the mighty waters Psal. 11. 6. Vpon the wicked he shall raine snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this is the portion of their cup It is called the portion of their cup saith Saint Augustine upon the place because of the just measure and proportion Gods Justice observes in the dealing out punishment to sinners as we heard before God is said to have a weight for the winds so for this storme and tempest that comes upon the wicked the Lord weighes it it comes upon them proportionable to their sinne were you ever strucke with feare when you have seen the huge flouds of waters rowling and ranging in the Seas being driven by mighty winds what fear then will possesse your hearts when you shall see the flouds of ungodnesse comes in upon you how will the terrors even of Hell then compasse you about it is an expression of David Psal. 18. 4 5. The sorrowes of death compassed mee and the flouds of ungodlinesse made me afraid So Arias Montanus turnes it howsoever hee may meane of ungodly men yet the word bearing the other reading we may also apply it to the ungodlinesse of men then the sorrowes of Hell compassed me The Lord give you a heart to foresee this storme and to prevent it Wee read Exod. 9. 20. when God threatned to send upon Egypt a fearefull storme of haile those who feared the Word of the Lord made their servants and Cattle to flee into their houses so this day you heare from the Lord a storme threatned let every soule that feareth the Word of the Lord seeke to flee into a shelter there is no other shelter that can keepe it off but onely the Lord Jesus Christ that which is said Isa. 32. 2. is true of him a man shall be a hiding place from the Wind and a covert from the tempest 7. Let us yet rise higher in praising God in the stormy Wind by considering in our hearts if God be so dreadfull now in this one creature how dreadfull then will he be when he shall appeare in all his power in all his wrath his Iustice and holinesse what shall the glory of the great God be hereafter of which the Scripture speaks so much when he shall cloath himselfe in glory and majesty in the full brightnesse of them when the Heavens shall depart like a scrowle and the elements melt with fervent heat when all the World shall be on fire about him the voyce of the Lord hath shaken the earth but he saith yet once more I shake not the earth onely but also Heaven that will be a dreadfull day indeed when the starres of Heaven shall fall unto the earth as a Fig-tree casteth her untimely Figges when shee is shaken of by a mighty Wind when every Mountaine and Iland shall be moved out of their places when the Kings of the earth and the great and mighty men shall hide themselves in the Dennes and in the Rockes and Mountaines Revel. 6 13 14 15. A stormy Wind that shakes off the fruit of trees here wee account great but such as shall shake the Heavens and cause the starres to fall as the fruit the untimely fruit of a Fig-tree how dreadfull must that needes be beyond all apprehension and yet in such a stormy Wind will God one day appeare in his glory when not onely children and women and a few fearefull people shal be afraid but the Kings the Captaines and the great ones of the earth shall tremble and hide themselves and wish the Mountaines to fall upon them and the hills to cover them from the Wrath of the Lord Thus I have endeavoured to shew you how you should glorifie God in his worke to be moved with it in a sensitive way that is no more then the bruit beasts are the swine will runne up and down and cry in a stormy wind yea when it is comming being sensible of it before you are but Job 35. 11. God teacheth us more then the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser then the foules of heaven therefore God lookes for another manner of glory from us men then from them and more from us Christians then from men God hath given to the reasonable creature to
THE SEA-MANS DIRECTION IN TIME OF STORME Delivered in a Sermon upon occasion of a strong stormie Wind lately happening By IER. BURROUGHS MATTH. 8. 27. The Winds and the Sea obey him LONDON Printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons 1640. To the Reader IT hath been the way of God in speaking to men and drawing their hearts to him to apply himselfe to them in those things they have skill of and are acquainted with When Christ was revealed to the Wise men that came from the East it was by a Star they were Astronomers and conversed much in the contemplation of the Starres and God speakes to them accordingly When our Saviour called Fishermen to follow him he tels them Hee will make them Fishers of men hee expresseth himselfe unto them in their owne way Wherefore it being my lot to live where multitudes of Mariners especially of mine owne Countrey-men daily come and my Auditors being in great part of such I was willing to take the opportunity of that great worke of God that sore and grievous tempest that was lately so terrible as made the hearts of many to shake to adde the word sutable to Gods worke to labour to conveigh some spirituall truth by the advantage of that impression that was then upon their hearts little thinking then that such present thoughts hinted by such an occasion should ever be more publike then in mine owne Congregation but knowing what need Mariners have of Sermons and considering how few they heare because I could not preach to them where their chiefe businesse lies upon the Seas I was willing to send this Sermon to them that they might have it by them many Sabbaths they spend hearing none seldome hearing any It may be the sutablenesse of this subject may invite them to reade especially it being the desires of many of them who heard it and found some worke of God upon their hearts by it to have it by them at first I was unwilling to let such sudden things appeare so publike but after considering that some poore Saylors boy at least might get some good by them I yeelded I publish not this Sermon because I conceit any speciall excellency in it that cannot be expected it is the same for the frame and substance of it that was preached the next day after the occasion Some things are added and enlarged especially concerning the nature of the Winds But because I know nothing of this subiect published and some way it may be usefull and a little good is worth much of my time and labour who knowes what a truth what a hint fitted to the apprehensions of people in their owne way may doe therefore here you have it and the Lord prosper it to you Yours in Christ I. B. Imprimatur Jo. Hansley Octob. 14. 1640. THE SEA-MANS DIRECTION IN TIME OF STORME Psal. 148. 8. Stormy Wind fulfilling his word A Word spoken in season how good is it it is like Apples of Gold with pictures of Silver Silver pictures doe set out the golden Apples and the golden Apples doe grace the Silver pictures so words that are gracious fitted to their circumstances they are graced each by other A good word spoken at any time is a golden Apple it hath worth in it but fitted to circumstances it hath beauty added to it and not onely beauty but efficacie too for so it is in the Originall words upon their wheeles when they are rightly fitted to their circumstances being spoken in due season then they goe upon their wheeles and passe along like a triumphant Chariot whereas if these bee omitted they are drawne out as a Cart is drawne on without wheeles like Pharoahs Chariots when God tooke off their wheeles they drave heavily As Saint Augustine said of the outward element in the Sacrament let the word come to the element and it is made a Sacrament so I may say of Gods workes let the word be added to Gods workes and they are instructions great helpes to Godlinesse There is a great threat against those who regard not the workes of God Because they regard not the workes of the Lord nor the operation of his hands hee shall destroy them and not build them up Psal. 28. 5. That such a curse may not befall us for our regardlesnesse of this worke of the Lord in this dreadfull stormy wind I have chose this Scripture that as Job heard the Lord speaking out of the whirle-wind so you this day by this Scripture may heare the Lord speaking to you out of that stormy tempestuous wind that but yesterday was so terrible to you Sensitive things move much yet the impression of them holds not long it is good therefore to take the advantage of your hearts and that presently The title of this Psalme is Hallelujah praise ye the Lord it is a Psalme of praise by way of excellency above others it begins and ends with Praise ye the Lord all sorts of creatures in heaven and earth ayre and seas are called to joyne in this worke but especially man of all creatures in the world God expects his praise from man in a speciall manner the wayes of God towards man being the most glorious above that they are towards any of his other workes towards him his name indeede is excellent above the earth or heavens God will have active and passive praises from man and amongst men above all from his owne people his Church whom hee hath chosen to be a people neere unto him the high praises of God are to be in their mouthes Psal. 49. 6. They are not onely to rejoyce in their God and in his glorious workes but to bee joyfull in a glorious manner to rejoyce in glory not onely to sing the praises of the Lord but to sing aloud upon their beds vers. 5. God himselfe is the praise of his Saints as we have it in the 16. verse of this 148. Psalme not onely the workes of God but God himselfe hee is their praise both actively and passively he is their praise their glory their excellencie and he even he himselfe is the subject of their praise Gods people are his glory and God is the glory of his people They are his glory Psal. 78. 61. hee delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into their enemies hand God is their glory Psal. 3. 3. Thou art my glory and the lifter up of my head and thus God and his people glory one in another every where the Name of God is great but God is knowne in Judah and his Name is great in Israel Psal. 76. In his Temple every man speakes of his glory Psal. 29. 9. wherefore to him be glory in the Church Eph. 3. 21. The glory that God hath from his people from his Church is another manner of glory then hee hath from all the world besides wherefore let not us faile of giving God the glory of his great workes of this his mighty worke Our subject then at this time is
have said except the Wind had turned at such a time I had beene lost we had certainely been all cast away and if you had beene cast away then where had you beene now it may bee from those dreadfull waters you might have sunke into the lake of unquenchable fire you might have beene swallowed up of that infinit ocean of Gods eternal wrath but God hath preserved you you are alive and yet enjoy the day of grace the goodnesse of the Lord hath beene to you that which he promised I say 32. 2. A hiding place from the Wind and â— covert from the tempest It was the free grace of God towards you onely his goodnesse that hath beene your safety for what could you doe to helpe yourselfe it may be you cryed and prayed to God but what could your prayers doe who wert and it may be still art a prophane wretched creature the course of whose life is a way of enmity against the great God of the whole World It is reported of Bias the Philosopher who sayling among a company of rude Mariners they being in danger by a storme the Mariners fell on praying and crying out to their gods Bias calls to them to hold their peace lest the gods should heare them and so they should all fare the worse for their sakes The worst that is in such dangers will cry out and sometimes fall on praying but how should that prayer be accepted that comes out of that mouth out of which so many oathes came a while since which is defiled with so many blasphemies and not yet purged by repentance wherfore whensoever thou hast been delivered and others have perished admire at the free grace of God towards thee give him the glory of it and let God bee thus praised in the Stormie Wind. 5. Give God the glory of this work of his by seeking him for the raising ordering and stilling the Wind according as thy occasion is I have read of a people who erected an Altar to the Winds and once a yeer spent a whole night in their devotions to the Winds to seeke calme winds because of the great hurt they often suffered by them but wee have learned otherwise namely to looke beyond the Winds to seeke God acknowledge him the raiser and orderer of them this is part of that divine worship that is due to God that he should be acknowledged and sought in these things although it be but a common worke of his providence yet hee expects to bee sought to in it prayer hath shut the Heavens and opened them prayer hath power over Heaven and Earth and Ayre and Seas and Winds it hath power to prevail with God much more power over any creature whatsoever We reade 1 Sam. 7. 9 10. when Samuel offered to God but a sucking Lambe presently a grievous storme arose The Lord thundred with thunder upon the Philistines And Revel. 8. 4 5. The smoake of the incense came with the prayers of the Saints ascending before God then the Angel tooke the censer and filled it with the fire of the Altar and cast it into the earth and there were voyces and thundrings and lightnings All the Devils in Hell have not that power over the Winds that the prayers of the Saints have We have a famous story of the power of the prayers of the Christian Souldiers in Marcus Aurelius his Army recorded by Eusebius who praying to God in time of great drought when the Army was like to perish for thirst they procured a great tempest against the enemies which put them to flight and overthrew them and a refreshing raine to their owne Armie whereupon they were called the Lightning Legion upon which Aurclius was much moved and favoured the Christians much after it and wrote in their behalfe acknowledging it the hand of God as a fruit of their prayers If prayers have power over the raine over thundring and lightning then surely over the stormy Wind If therefore you seeke not God in this if you thinke it is nothing that prayer can doe you are more heathenish and fuller of Atheisme then the most rude heathen Matth. 8. 24 25. When a tempest arose Christ was awaked When a storme ariseth God must be sought 6. Consider if stormes and tempests in the aire be so terrible what then are the stormes and tempests of Gods anger in the execution of dreadfull judgements upon Nations and Kingdomes and how terrible are Stormes and Tempests raised and raging in mens consciences For the first Isa. 28. 1 2. the Lord pronounceth a woe against the Drunkards of Ephraim whose glorious beauty is as a fading flower Behold the Lord hath a mighty strong tempest A destroying storme and a floud of mighty waters The clouds gather apace and hang exceeding blacke and dreadfull over many places as if God had reserved us to fearefull stormy dayes Gods way hath beene in the sweet calme of peace for a long time in the sweet Sun-shine of his Mercies but Nahum 1. 3. The Lord hath his way in the Whirl wind and in the storme Yea even that God that is slow to anger yet hath his way in the storm and in that way God is seeming now to come Eliah could foresee a great raine by a cloud no bigger then a mans hand we may fore-see not onely raine but the great storme and tempest of Gods displeasure gathering neere by clouds that arise which are bigger then a mans hand for behold even the Heavens are blacke wee have feared the gathering them often but because they have bin dispelled wee have promised peace to our selves God hath his times so to our selves God hath his times so to gather them that they shall not be scattered untill they have fulfilled his Word The prudent man fore-seeth the evill and hideth himselfe Pro. 22. 3. Evill men understand not judgement but they that seeke the Lord understand all things What are the thoughts the feares of those who doe most seeke the Lord observe what they doe if they understand any thing of Gods minde then a storme is comming It is observed of the Bees that before a storme you may see them come apace to their Hives what are the Hives of the Saints but the publike Temples of God These have the promise of God to be a place of refuge a covert from storme Isai. 4. 6. These are the chambers that God now calls his Saints into Isa. 26. 20. Come my people enter into your chambers shut your doores about you hide your selvss as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be overpast for behold the Lord commeth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth shall disclose her bloud and shall no more cover her slaine These are the Pellaes to which God calls you if you think your selves so setled in your places as that you cannot stir take heed lest the storm be to you as it is threatned Job 27. 21. The
of thee by fulfilling my word upon thee by this tempest then expect from thee what thou wilt doe to the fulfilling of it It may be some of you have heretofore in your distresse thus promised the Lord and the Lord hath heard your cryes and hath spared you if God hath beene gracious to you doe not now returne to folly The first time as I remember that Pharaoh acknowledged that he had sinned was upon the dreadfulnesse of the Tempest Exo. 9. 27. Though I have sinned the Lord is righteous I and my people are wicked So it may bee you have done but take heed now it be not with you as it was with Pharaoh vers. 34. when he saw the tempest was over hee sinned yet more and hardned his heart you are delivered from the tempest doe not now sinne more doe not now harden your hearts Oh let conscience now pleade with you for the fulfilling your owne word take heede now doe not thrust away conscience when it comes to you to put you upon what you have promised to God in your distresse 1 Tim. 1. 19. the Scripture speakes of some who make shipwracke of faith and put away their conscience when you have escaped one ship-wracke take heed of a worse ship-wrack namely that of faith and of putting away conscience the word that is there translated put away is more then putting it is thrusting away casting off with violence the same word that is translated in Rom. 1. 12. 13. cast off the workes of darknesse when temptations to the worke of darknesse come it is good thrusting them away with violence but take heed you doe not so with your consciences when they come upon you urging on you the performance of what you engaged your selfe to God in the time of danger It may be in time of danger you cast out your goods to save your lives now cast out your lusts to save your soules either your sinnes or your soules must perish know that though you forget your promises yet God lookes after them and vvill call to account what becomes of them they are to be seeds of a godly life now then take heed that when you vowe to and covenant with God you doe not sowe the Wind that phrase the Scripture useth for losing our labour when nothing comes of our endeavours as Hos. 8. 7. but that is not all that no good comes of our promises but certainly if in them you sowe the Wind there will something come of them if not a harvest of a reformed life yet reape you shall you shall reape the Whirl-wind they will be the seedes of most dreadfull miseries to you afterwards That which one Theodericus answered to Sigismund the Emperour when he would know of him what he should doe to be happy may I say to you Consider sayes he what you would wish you had done at such and such times when you had grievous paine of the stone and gout and doe that now so I unto you would you bee happy consider then when you have been in grievous storms and dangerous tempests what would you wish you had done doe that now when company when temptations drawes to evill consider then will this be my joy if ever God brings mee into the like grievous tempests againe would I have done thus at that time at such times then men are convinced of the wayes of God and could wish themselves godly Yea I remember I have read of an expression that Xenophon hath that all men in their sailings desire for their companions to have men rather religious then Atheists because of their often dangers and feares by reason of Tempests now your hearts rise against them but at such a time you could bee glad to bee with them and to bee as they are except you be Atheists your selves O labour now to be such as then you are convinced is the best and most safest to be religious if it be good then it is good now There hath beene much feare struck into your hearts at such times but know there may be much trembling at Gods great workes and yet God not feared As at the giving of the Law the people were terrified vvhen they saw and heard those terrible things at Mount Sinai and yet afterwards God sayes Oh that there were a heart in this people to feare me God does not owne all that skaring of theirs before for any true feare of his Name the Lord therefore grant that that feare which in such times hath possessed your hearts may prove and appeare to bee not so much the feare of dangers as the true feare of the great God appearing to you in such great and dreadfull workes of his that if there were any stirrings in your consciences before now by such a sight of God causing his feare to be upon you those beginnings may be brought forth to a good and blessed issue that though your hearts stucke before and could not be brought off without much adoe to any thing that was good yet that now this vvorke of God may bring them off and now there may be an everlasting divorce between your hearts and those evils which before did cleave so close and fast unto you As we read Psal. 29. That the voyce of the Lord in tempest causeth the Hindes to calve now they are creatures that doe not calve without great difficulty but the feare that is upon them at such times causeth them to bring forth their young you have had many stirrings of heart but yet nothing hath come of them the Lord cause the feare of his great name now to be effectuall that those stirrings may bring forth something for the honour of God and your owne peace 5. Let us take notice of Gods fulfilling his Word by this stormy Wind what word of his was fulfilled amongst us whatsoever hurt hath beene done by it whatsoever judgement hath befalne any upon this it is for the fulfilling some word of the Lord the Lord give you all hearts to fulfill that worke of humiliation and obedience that this worke of the Lord calls for from you there hath not beene knowne in these parts in the memory of man the like effect of a stormy Wind as this hath brought forth We read of that wind 1 King 19. where the Text saith God was not in the Wind wee cannot say so of this for verily God was in this wind and that very remarkably O that hee might bee honoured in it that as in nature strong Winds cleare the ayre from corruption so this may bee so blessed by God to cleanse your conscience from some defilement 6. From the fourth particular the word of his promise When you have prosperous winds looke at them as comming to fulfill a word of mercy Psal. 89. 8 9. Who is a strong Lord like unto thee or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee Thou rulest the raging of the Sea the waters thereof arise thou stillest them The Psalmist acknowledgeth the worke of God in