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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

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

Christ saith the Apostle 'T is Treason to undertake an Embassy without commission I sent them not yet they ran saith the Lord RAN not knowing Why nor Whither like Ahimaaz in Samuel and like him too they can tell no tidings as one very well observes Note For climbing on high with the Ape they do but shew their own deformities Many now alive shall see the blasting of these Men either with Lightning or in their gifts I pray God give them repentance to life that they no longer play the young Vipers in gnawing out the bowels of their mother the Church 2 As Thunder or Lightning or both have appeared for the Church against the enemies of her Truth so also of her Peace You have seene how the Lord hath fought for Israel against f Exod 9.23 38. 1 Sam. 7.10 Psalm 18.13 14. Pharaoh with Thunder Lightning and against the enemies of Samuel and David with the same Artilery Never count your estate low and desperate so long as Heaven hath Hail-shot Lightnings and Thunder-bolts to relieve his people and crush their enemies Comfort 4 4 No storm no Thunder in Heaven but that of Halelujahs Though the glory of Jesus Christ be much brighter then Lightning yet it shall neither terrifie nor scortch us in Heaven Note Who shall endure everlasting burninge saith the Prophet g Isa 33.14 15. Isaiah He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly Saints triumphant shall be able to abide and endure the flame of Gods glory For gold and Jewels such are believers will not suffer by fire Above the Moon there is nothing but serenity peace and tranquility There will be an everlasting calm in Heaven Nothing but rest and joy nothing to molest or affright us On Earth stormes and Tempests Thunder and Lightning Hail and showrs Wars and commotions terrours and troubles The Sea is restlesse and all that sail therein All the creatures on the earth in the Aire and great Deep are in continual agitation in perpetual labour and motion Then looke a little lower not one moment of rest or ease in Hell But oh the blessed Tranquility that is in Heaven What a glorious change will there be When Peter was on the Mount encompassed with glory by and by a cloud overshadowed him But no cloud in Heaven to darken us No cloud in Heaven big with storms and Thunder to break over us and to terrifie and annoy us There will be Summer without Winter Day without night Sun-shine without shade Calm without any interposing storm for all motion ends at the Center There is no Earthquake in Heaven Heb. 12.28 opened That is a City that hath Foundations 'T is a kingdome that cannot be shaken Consider that place with the coherence Heb. 12.28 Just before he spake of Gods shaking the earth with his voice For at the delivery of the Law there was dreadful thunder by whose cracks the Mount quaked and trembled And yet once more the Lord will shake by most violent Thunders Not onely the Earth but the Heavens Not only Men but Angels who shall quake and stand amazed at the dreadfull appearance of Christ in judgment This will be such a shaking of Heaven and Earth as will loosen and dissolve the whole Frame so that the things shaken viz. Earth Heaven shall be removed and abolished But Heaven which is above all visible heavens the seat of blessed Souls is saith the Author a kingdome that cannot be shaken That is to say by Thunder or any thing else Then h Iob 37.2 Caution for Saints Elihu shall say no more Heark it Thundreth There shall be no more sorrow nor crying no paine nor feare all former things being passed away Our Thunder is no more heard by glorified Saints then their Halelujahs are by us And now having spread before Saints these Consolations Let me adjoyne thereto a necessary caution which concerns all Believers but especially those of the weaker Sex The Caution is this Not to be scared Caution for Saints affrighted or transpored in the time of Thunder and Lightning storms and Tempests by Land or Sea as to speak or act things unbeseeming their most holy profession And that there may be no mistake i Weems portraicture of Gods image in man p. 218 volumn 4. Divines tell us of six sorts of Feare 1. Naturall whereby every creature shuns its destruction 2. Humane which ariseth from a too vehement desire of this life with the continuance and comforts thereof Skin for skin and all that a man hath will he give for his life 3. Mundane when a man feares the losse of Transitories more then the losse of Gods favour Many that thought well of Christ did not confesse him for fear of the Pharisees Excommunication Note 4. There is a Servile fear whereby men long to avoid the punishment of sin yet k Isay 35.4 Luke 12.32 still entertain a love and liking to sin Some call it Esau's feare Others the Adulterous feare because the Adulteress is afraid of her husband lest he should surprize and punish her She feareth the l Qui recte timet Deum nihil timer praeter eum Origen in Levit. 16. Law and shame more then her husbands displeasure 5. Initiall Fear is when we are deterred from sin partly out of feare to displease and grieve the Lord and partly because of the consequence and wofull wages of sinne 6. There is a Filiall feare in Saints m Mat. 10.28 Acts 10.2 Heb. 11.26 Mal. 1.6 Luke 2.25 as a good Wife fears her Husband lest he should be grieved and a loving Child feares the frown of his Father more then the Rod. Now observe it well Note 1 Some sorts of Feare are From and With the spirit of Grace as Initial and Filial fear 2 Some Fear is From but not With the Spirit as Servile fear 3 Again some feare is With the Spirit but not From him As Natural and Humane fear 4 Lastly some Fear is neither From nor With the Spirit and such is Mundane Base Feare If then your fear of Thunder be only naturall it is neither good nor evill If it proceed from a n Res est imperiosa Timer Martial lib. 2. Epist 59. passionate and inordinate desire of life we must strive against it and begin to suspect things are not with us as they should be If you fear Thunder more then the Thunderer and his displeasure Then it is sinfull If you fear when it Thundreth least God should then smite you in and for your sin This is a slavish Fear and wicked men have it Note But if you fear Thunder and Lightning only as signes of Gods Power and Majesty desirous to honour worship him and hoping you shall not grieve or displease so good and gracious a Father though ten thousand worlds were folded up in a Temptation THIS certainly is a Filial Holy and Blessed Fear You then that have a share in Christ give not way to a servile and slavish