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A81486	Vox cæli; or, philosophical, historicall, and theological [brace] observations, of thunder. With a more general view of Gods wonderful works. First grounded on Job 26. 14. but now enlarged into this treatise. / By Robert Dingley, M.A. once fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; now minister of Gods Word at Brixton in the Isle of Wight, and County of Southampton.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing D1502; Thomason E1868_1; ESTC R209723	78,969	218

d Acts 8.29 to Philip Goe neare and joyne thy selfe to this Charet So still by his Spirit he speakes unto our hearts 4 By his elect Angels So an Angel spake to Cornelius saying e Acts 10.4 Thy Prayers and Almes are come up for a memoriall before God 5 By his Ministers and Prophets f Luke 1.70 He spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which have been since the world began g Luke 10.16 He that heareth them heareth Christ I have sent my servants the h Ier. 7.26 27 Prophets but they hearkned not to me saith the Lord. We should receive their doctrine i 1 Thes 2.13 Not as the word of men but as it in truth the word of God saith St. Paul 6 God speaks to us by his Works We are bid To hear the Rod and him that hath appointed it k Mie● 6.9 The Lords voice cryeth to the City thereby All the creatures of God are as so many Organ pipes to convey his voice minde to us He speaks to us by all operations but especially by Thunder That is more immediately and eminently his VOICE Efficacior lingua quam litera saith Bernard The voice saith Austin hath an occult and hidden influence on the Hearers If l Sir Walter Raleigh Hist of the world l. 2. cap. 13. Melampus m Nieremb Hist fl 3. c. 12. and Thales are said to understand the voices of Birds and Beasts which the Hebrew Doctors thought Solomon could do Then much more may we in Thunder Gods voice hear him chiding threatning all obstinate sinners and proclaiming his owne Greatnesse Majesty and Power How should this Voice of God warn and alarm us out of our sins Loud Terrible and Perswading hath beene the voice of men Loud so was the voice of Stentor the Grecian concerning whom it it reported that with his voice onely he could make as great a noise as 50 men Terrible Solomon saith n Prov. 16.14 19.12 The wrath of a King is as Messengers of Death and as the roaring of a Lion Cornelius Gallus was threatned to Death by Augustus and the * Cambden Eliz. 406. Lord Chancellour Hatton by Queen Elizabeth The Frown or Voice of a great Man is terrible His eyes seem to cast out live sparkles of Fire and his voyce to thunder The voice of man hath been very o Dr. Reynolds of Passions c. 39. p. 5●7 Charming and Perswading Caesar with one word quiets the commotion of an Army Menenius Agrippa with one Apologue the sedition of a people Flavianus with one Oration the fury of an Emperour And Abigail with one Supplication the revenge of David It is reported of Cynias that he overcame more by his Tongue then Pyrrhus by the Sword And of Damonides that through Rhetorick he perswaded any one to what he would Now remember that in Job p Job 40.9 Canst thou thunder with a voice like God Hath the voice of filly man a contemptible worm a humming flye beene so loud terrible and charming as you have heard how then should THUNDER the VOICE of God work upon us How should it scare us from the love of sin and draw us to love feare and obey the great GOD All creatures Man excepted obey Gods VOICE The Sun is stopped in his course The hunger-bitten Lions touch not Daniel And if CHRIST stand up and utter his voice the rough winds and foaming waves are charmed into a calm Note Nay Thunder saith one which seems to be all Voice is all Eare when God speaks So then when it Thunders conceive the great Jehovah is now speaking to thee and addresse thy selfe to all diligent attention when it Lightneth imagine his flaming Eyes doe now sparkle and flash indignation against sin and sinners So terrible is the Voice of God that it doth not only shake the Earth but the q Heb. 12 26. Heaven By the way If THUNDER be Gods voice bold and sawcy is their practice that stop their eares when it thunders For if a King speak to one and he turn away his face or stop his eares it is held a point not onely of neglect but scorn and disdain How darest thou slight and neglect God when his Voice is sounded and hee speaks to thee by Thunder Is not this to be r Psal 58.4 like a Deafe Adder that stoppeth her eares If it be a sin to stop our eares at the cry of the ſ Prov. 21.13 poore or t Acts 7.57 voice of Steven Much more is it Rebellion to stop our eares at this voice of God Is it not in the words of Zechary to u Zach. 7.11 12. refuse to hearken to pull away the shoulder stop our eares that we should not heare his voice and make our hearts like an adamant stone What a childish weaknesse is this to think the not hearing of Thunder can shield you from it Nay what a sin is this to stop your ears when God hath commanded w Iob 37.2 3 4 5. you to heare it Job 37.2 Heare attentively the noise of his voice and the sound that goeth out of his mouth Mark 1 You must heare it when it Thunders 2 Not onely so but hearken and listen attentively thereunto x Trap in Locum p. 320. Mercer doth thus paraphrase it out of Kimchi Hear ye hear ye hear ye again and again and then ye also will tremble 3 He doth not onely require us to heare Gods voice in generall for so we might thinke hee meant the voice of his Word or Spirit but the Noise of his Voice and the Sound of his mouth when God thundreth from Heaven As you may see in the following verses How can these things be done if you stop your eares when it thundreth as though you would be too hard for God How oft are we bid y Deut. 26.17 28.1 2 15 45. 30.10 Hearken to the voice of God If Thunder then be his Voice you must hearken to that and other Voices of God Never feare it will make you deafe as the fall of Nile doth the Catadupe z Bernard Aura prima mortis janua Prima aperiatur saluti The eare was the first doore of sin now let it be opened for thy spiritual good Thus you have seene God is the Thunderer because Thunder is stiled his VOICE so often in the Bible The ancient Romans would say Heark God thundreth The meer heathens still ascribed Thunder to God They stiled Jove Altitonantem thundring from on High The Romans had a multitude of gods yet the power of sending Thunder they restrained to a L. Vives in Aug. de civ Dei lib 4. cap. 23. Jupiter and Pluto Day-thunder to the former and Night-thunder to the latter Fulmen supremi Jovis Gestamen est saith b Pierii Hierogl Pierius But d Tertull. Advers Gent. p. 33. Tertullian shews the Pagans that Thunder was before Jupiter and so he concludes it is not from

feare of Thunder and Lightning which makes People hide themselves and be almost at their o In metu consilia prudentium vulgi rumor juxta audiuntur Tacit in Hist lib. 3. cap. 11. wits end speaking rashly and unadvisedly with their Lips and doing those things which are far from suiting with their holy profession That we should rather take them to be Children or Mad-men to be Pagans or Robbers of Churches In a word to have some notable guilt upon them as Parricide Incest Adultery Murder or Perjury then to be serious intelligent and blamelesse Christians But that we are commanded to judge no man before the time O let the fear of God dispossesse your hearts of all servile inordinate and slavish p Mar. 18.28 Timorem Timere pellit us clavum clavo Fears If the feare of any thing unhinge you and render you unfit for Gods service or the employments of your Calling sit down and sadly conclude That feare is not of God Object But may some objest when it Thundred on Mount Sinai Moses quaked feared exceedingly Heb. 12.21 Solution To this I answer 1. q Exo. 19.16 All the people feared so Moses might be drawn by their example it might be his infirmity 2 Moses well knew this Thunder was supernaturall and miraculous so had reason to quake 3 Austin saith Brevis differentia legis Evangelii timor amor The Law produced feare but the Gospel love 4 Moses was afraid when it thundered but not as the people were Timuit Moses sed non Timore servili ut populus saith Ferus Moses indeed feared but his feare was not like the peoples servile but Filial which was r Timere Deum est nulla quae facienda sunt Bona praeterire faith Gregor in Mor. nothing else but a religious reverence and holy observance and Å¿ Nemo melius diligit quam qui maxime veretur offendere Salvian Ep. 4. awe of Gods Majesty and Power Feare should be the childe of goodnesse not cruelty the one is joyned with love the other with hatred Let wicked men feare Thunder with a slavish and hellish feare Omnes conscius strepitus timet saith Seneca A guilty conscience feareth every noise t Philip. in Job Aliud est timere quia peccaveris aliud ne pecees 'T is one thing to be affrighted after villany another thing to fear lest you offend God u Juvenal 13. Juvenal writing of guilty persons calling to minde their wickednesse when it thundreth saith thus Hi sunt qui trepidant ad omnia fulgura paellent Cum tonat Exanimes primo quoque murmure Caeli Let it passe for the true character of a wicked wretch to be still intrepidus ad culpam timidus ad paenam fearlesse in sinning and fearfull of vengeance 'T is a vile heart that fears Thunder more then sin which saith Chrysostme w Chrysostome Hom. 5. in Ep. ad Rom. is to be feared more then Hell We are worthy saith he of Hell if for no other cause yet for fearig Hell and the evills of punishment more then Christ Manifest you have the spirit of Love Adoption by crushing all unworthy and uncomely feares in the time of Thunder A greater Thunder must come wherein the Saints shall not fear but shout for joy For when the waves of the Sea shal mount up their foaming Billows when the Earth under us shall tremble with most terrible Earthquakes and have throws like a woman in travell When Lightnings shall be our chief Light and the Heavens over us roar with dreadful Thunder In a word When this goodly frame of Nature shall be on fire Then all true Believers shall lift up their heads because their Redemption draws nigh LAVS DEO Sylvester his Translation of Du Bartas his second day of the first week p. 44. BUt hark what hear I in the Heavens methinks The Worlds wall shakes and his Foundation shrinks It seems even now that horrible Persephone Loosing Meges Alecto and Tysiphone Weary of reigning in black Erebus Transports her Hell between the Heaven and us 'T is held I know that when a Vapour moist As well from fresh as from salt water hoist In the same instant with hot Exhalations In the airy Regions secondary Stations The fiery Fume besieged with the crowd And keen cold thicknesse of that dampish Cloud Strengthens her strength and with redoubled vollies Of joyned heate on the cold Leagher fallies Like as a Lion very late exil'd From 's native Forrests spit at and revilld Mockt mov'd and troubled with a thousand toyes By wanton children idle Girles and Boyes With hideous roaring doth his Prison fill In 's narrow Cloister ramping wildly still Runs too and fro and furious lesse doth long For liberty then to revenge his wrong This Fire desirous to break forth again From 's cloudy Ward cannot it selfe refrain But without resting loud it groans and grumbles It roules and roars and round round round it tumbles Till having rent the lower side in sunder With sulphry flash it have shot down its Thunder Though willing to unite in these Alarms To 's brothers forces his owne fainting Arms And th' hottest Circle of the world to gain To issue upwards oft is strives in vaine For 't is there fronted with a Trench so large And such an Host that though it often charge On this and that side the cold Camp about With his hot skirmish Yet still still the stout Victorious For repelleth every push So that despairing with a furious rush Forgetting Honour which the valiant prize Not as it would but as it may it flies Then the Ocean boyls for feare the Fish do deem The Sea too shallow to safe shelter them The Earth doth shake The shepheard in the Field In hollow Rocks himselfe can hardly shield Th' affrighted Heav'ns ope and in the Vale Of Acheron grim Pluto's selfe looks pale Th' aire flames with fire for the loud roaring Thunder Renting the Cloud that it includes asunder Sends forth those flashes which so blear our sight As wakefull Students in the winters Night Against the steel glauncing with stony knocks Strike sudden sparks into their Tinder-box Moreover Lightning of a Fume is fram'd Through't selfs hot drinesse evermore inflam'd Whose power past credit without razing skin Can bruise to powder all our bones within Can melt the Gold that greedy Mizers hoord In barred cophers and not burn the boord Can break the blade and never singe the sheath Can scorch an Infant in the womb to Death And never blemish in one sort or other Flesh bone or sinew of the amazed Mother Consume the shooes and never hurt the feet Empty a Cask and yet not perish it c. Methinks I heare when it begins to Thunder The voice that brings Swains up and Caesars under By that Tow'r tearing stroak I understand Th' undaunted strength of the divine right hand When I behold the Lightning in the Skies Methinks I see th' Almighties glorious Eyes When I perceive it rain down timely showers Methinks the Lord his Horn of Plenty pours When from the Cloud excessive water spins Methinks Heaven weeps for our unwept-for sins THE END

Vox Caeli OR Philosophical Historicall and Theological Observations OF THUNDER With a more General view of Gods wonderful Works First grounded on Job 26.14 but now enlarged into this Treatise By Robert Dingley M. A. once Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in OXFORD now Minister of Gods Word at Brixton in the Isle of WIGHT and County of SOVTHAMPTON Psal 29.4 The voice of the LORD is powerfull the voice of the LORD is full of Majesty Job 37.5 GOD thundreth marvellously with his Voice Great things doth he which we cannot comprehend Propterea Tonitrua Propterea Fulminum Terrores Ne Bonitas DEI contemnatur Basil in Proaem ad Regulas fusius disputatas LONDON Printed by M S. for Henry Cripps and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Alley 1658. TO My Honoured Friend Major Samuel Bull Justice of Peace and Captaine of Cowes Castle in the Isle of WIGHT SIR MEn of your profession have beene Lovers of Learning Rudis miles ad Bellum concurrit qui causam Beili ignorat Tacitus And Great Souldiers have beene good Scholers Moses the Leader of Israel was skill'd in all the Learning of the Aegyptians a Aristot Rhet. lib. 5. Alexander was so bookish that he sent for the Works of Philistus into Greece being gone so far in Asia that Books were wanting Also it is said of him that Homer was still under his Pillow when he slept Julius Caesar a great Conqueror and as great a Scholer witnesse his Commentaries I need not tell you that in our Nation b Waterhouse Apol. for learning 127 128. Edward the 3d. Henry the Eighth Sir Philip Sidney Sir Walter Raleigh and Harding the Historian besides many others were excellent both for Learning and Valour and could equally handle both the Sword Pen. Nihil firmius faelicius laudabilius que Republica in qua abundant milites eruditi saith c Vegetius de Re nal lib. 1. Vegetius All which I mention to provoke our Military Worthies to the Love of the Muses And thanks be to GOD Religion and Learning do grow every Day more and more in request Plato said There was as much difference between a Learned and Ignorant Man as between the * Non intellects nulla est curetio morb Physitian and his Patient Aristotle thought as between the Living and the Dead Rome saw her best dayes under her most Learned Kings such as Numa Augustus Titus Antoninus Scientia non habet inimicum praeter ignorantem sui Quintil Constantine and others Yet Learning hath had her Enemies in all Ages this not excepted Licinus gave this Motto Pestes Reipublicae Literae Learning is the bane of a Common-wealth But Sir I know you wish well to our Universities the Fountains of Learning Your Activity and zeal for God and the Truth are so remarkable your Love to the faithfull Ministers of Christ so cordial and the particular Favours you have conferred on me so Numerous that not to Love and Honor you for the first would be Impiety and for the latter * The Spiders Motto Nemini Debea is also the ungrateful mans song Ingratitude You have been the Instrument of conveying the Gospel to a d West Cowes in this Isle Town that never before enjoyed it consisting of about a thousand soules and have helpt to build them a e Luke 7.5 Synagogue Nay the beams of your Goodnesse Justice and Vigilancy doe stretch themselves into all places of the Isle And O that wee had many * Rari quippo boni Numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum Portae Juvenal 13. Satyr more such as your selfe to countenance Religion and good Men in this place I wish that all our Gentry were such as you are Then would our f At Newport Lecture and conference be more frequented Vice and Heresie be more curbed and the hands of good Pastors and People more strengthened in the work way of the Lord And then should our Isle be more happy then any of those call'd the g Turk Hist Fortunate Isles or then Cyprus that is called the Blessed Isle for her great variety and abundance of all things So commending you and all fearing the Lord to the Blessing Guidance and Protection of the Almighty I shall ever approve my self Sir Yours in the things of Christ Robert Dingley From Brixton in the Isle of Wight 1658. To the Reader Christian Reader WHosoever dis-believeth not the Creed of Nature that God is cannot doubt that God was was a glorious volumn of all Psal 90.2 and more then all imaginable perfections before there was any thing else The first Edition of himselfe was in his Worke of Creation Man was not only himself a great part of the work but withall the Reader to whom it was directed Being by the Authors goodnesse designed the person for whose use 't was published How much of God he came to the acquaintance of by this Book and how perfectly he was able to read it before he sinned I may not take upon me to determine How little generally wee have profited by it since is of no very difficult demonstration That some learned Christians have been able to squeeze the greatest mysteries of our Religion out of the writings of some Heathens who are presumed to have no book but that of the creature to finde them in shall passe for me as an Argument of their industry But what shall we say to a great many more pretending to altogether as familiar an intimacy with the workes of Nature as those could doe This learned throng have studied you know this great subject to so little purpose that they have amongst them found out some almost as many Gods as there be Creatures and others knew not how to see any one at all And such amongst them as have taken upon them to instruct the rest of the world in the nature of the Gods had not eyes open enough to see the destruction of their subject in the plurality of it nor that the making of many was the marring of all And what notions the present Inhabitants of the remoter parts of the world have of God who have no meanes to discover him by but this you have an account so full of sadnesse that I know Reader your love to man-kinde will not suffer you to receive it without pity Is then the Transcript which God hath given us of himselfe in the worke of his Hands blotted No Acts 4.12 Acts 14.17 Rom. 1.20 but our understanding is Those that have no other means to know God by have meanes enough not enough so that they may be saved but enough so that they are without excuse And setting aside the helps God hath graciously afforded us in a second and third Edition of himselfe by the words of his mouth and the Son of his Love so shallow is our acquaintance with the Character this great Volumne is written in that the chifest Secretaries of Nature doe not seem to have