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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

and so dyed Five men were slain there fell some Hailstones that were fifteen inches about After this came Quartan Agues of which many died In the fifth year of i Idem page 286. Queen Eliz. Anno Dom 1563. July 8. there happened a great tempest of Lightning and Thunder which slew a woman and three children neer Charing crosse in London Also in Essex a man was torn in pieces his Barn was born down and Hay burnt Within few moneths there was an Earth-quake In the yeare k Idem p. 288. 1565. July 16. about nine at night began a tempest of Thunder and Lightning with showers of Hail which held on till three of the clock the next morning so terrible that at Chelsford in Essex 500 Acres of Corn were destroyed the Glasse-windows on the East side of the Towne and on the West and South-sides of the Church were beaten down with all the tyles off their houses beside divers Barns Chimneys and the Battlements of the Church which were overthrown Much harm also was done at Dover and other places A violent storm of Wind hapned the 24th of December following Anno Domini l Iem page 318. 1575. July 30. in the Afternoon arose a great tempest of Lightning and Thunder which slew Men and Beasts in divers places also at that time fell Hailstones seven inches about In the yeare m Idem p. 324. 1577. August 4. between nine and ten in the forenoon while the Minister was reading the second Lesson in the Church of Bliborough in Suffolke a strange and fearfull tempest of Thunder and Lightning strook through the wall of the Church into the ground almost a yard deep drave down all the people on that side cleft the door went to the Steeple rent the Timber brake the Chaines and fled towards Bongey sixe miles off The people were found groveling on the ground halfe an hour after whereof a man and boy lay dead the rest were scorched At Bongey there was the like for it wrung in sunder the Wyres wheels of the Clock slew two men which sate in the Belfrey and scorched another who hardly escaped with his life In the year n Idem p. 332. 1580. April 6. was a generall Earth-quake in England and on June 13. about 6 in the morning at Shipwash in Northumberland there hapned a storm of Lightning and Thunder After which on a sudden there fell stones of divers shapes On the 8 of October following there was a blazing Star Anno Dom. 1598. o Idem p. 413. Septemb. the first in the Afternoon it lightned and thundred at London two great cracks as it had been the shooting of great Ordnance Some men were smitten by it at the Tower of London and one man slain in Southwark over against the Tower p Idem p. 433. In the yeare of our Lord 1601. June the last there fell great Thunder and Lightning with Hailstones in many places nine inches compasse which at Sandwich in Kent lay a foot deep on the ground Well may we say with holy David Lord how terrible art thou in thy works All the earth shall worship thee Who would not feare thee O thou King of Saints Note Thus you have seene some-what of the Name Nature and effects of Thunder Yet take heed of ascribing too much unto it the Americans at this day worship and adore the Thunder Let it rather draw up our hearts to worship the Thunderer that the feare of God may continually possesseour hearts Enquiry 3 Thirdly we come next to enquire if any other then God be the Author or Instrument of Thunder I Answer 1 God is the efficient Cause Author and Orderer of Thunder and Lightning These expressions are usual in the Scripture The q Exod. 9.23 LORD sent Thunder and Haile r 2 Sam. 2● 14 The LORD thundred from heaven The ſ 1 Sam. 7.10 LORD thundred with a great thunder And such like places there be many which declare GOD to be the Thunderer Thunder is nine or ten times in Scripture called the t Psal 29.3 4 7 8 9. Psalm 77.18 Psalm 104.7 Iob 37.4 5. VOICE of God and no lesse then seven times in one Psalm is Thunder stiled his VOICE The voice of the Lord is upon the waters the God of glory thundreth The voice of the Lord is powerfull the voice of the Lord is full of majestie The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars shaketh the wildernesse The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of Fire c. So David goeth on to magnifie this VOICE of GOD. Thunder then is Gods voice or speech Imago animi sermo est Thunder Gods Voice saith Seneca speech is the lively Image and Representation of the Minde Loquere ut te videam saith the Proverb speak that I may see and know you This excellent Faculty the Lord hath communicated to rationall creatures And divers u Of the nature causes of speech see Casaubon of Enthusiasm cap. 4. mysteries are wrapped up in this great Mercy called by the w Psal 57.8 Psalmist the GLORY of Mankinde and therefore he bids it awake unto the praises of God that bestowed it Euripides calls the Tongue the messenger of Reason The Voice is the Minds Ambassadour the Soules interpreter the Thoughts Image and the Hearts Scribe Note Trhee Sciences are employed about our speech Grammar relates to the congruity Rhetorick to the Elegancy and Logick to the Verity or Probability of speech Without speech our Life would be a burden to us Any imperfection in speech is no small impediment to our Affairs Let us blesse God for any perfection therein Moses though so dear to the Lord had it not I read that Demosthenes having a great impediment in his speech attained a most handsome form of speaking by putting small stones into his mouth And Jerome living at Bethlem to learn Hebrew was fain to have his teeth filed ere he could pronounce it as he should Now concerning the Voice of God That we return to our Theame Let us see how many wayes God may be said to speak to us because Thunder is called his voice I Answer 1 Immediately by himselfe So no doubt the x Gen. 3.9 10. Voice which Adam heard in the Garden was the Voice of God himself and not the voice of an Angell as Gregory would have it And I heard thy voice in the Garden So it is said that God answered Moses by a y Exod. 19.19 Voice and that z Deut. 4.12 The people heard the voice of his words Thus a also God the Father spake articulately unto Christ b John 12.28 2 Pet. 1.17 I have glorified my Name and will glorifie it again 2 God speaks to us by his SON who by his incomparable Sermons spake as never man spake In these last dayes he hath spoken unto us by his Son c Heb. 1.2 His sheep heard his voice 3 God speaks to us by his spirit who said

of the Author or the awe and terrour it doth or should beget in the Auditors When the Lord Thundreth in the Heavens Psal 18.3 29.3 Job 37.4 5. 't is the HIGHEST that gives his voice The God of GLORY Thundreth He thundreth with the voice of his EXCELLENCY God Thundreth MARVELLOVSLY with his voice The clouds poured out water the Skies sent out a sound thine arrowes also went abroad the voice of thy Thunder was in the heavens the Lightnings lightned the world What then The earth trembled and shook Psal 77.17 18. Virgil. lib. 1. Georg. Ipse pater media nimborum in nocte corusca Fulmina molitur dextra Quo maxima motu Terra trêmit fugere ferae mortalia corda Per gentes humilis stravit pavor Many dreadfull effects of Thunder you are remembred of in this Treatise If it fill our hearts with high holy reverential thoughts of the Thunderer that you constantly feare before him it is one I am sure that the Almighty Author doth designe and the very best that the work can produce Bede gives us the Relation of a holy man who never heard a great gust of winde but he would presently call upon God for mercy beseech him to be gracious to the sons of men If the winde increased he would lay all other businesse aside and attend alone to that one of Prayer If Thunder and Lightning followed he would then make hast to the Church and spend his time in Religious exercises till the storm was over And being asked by his friends why he did so His answer was have you not read Psal 18.13 14. The Lord thundred in the Heavens and the Highest gave his voice He sent out his Arrows scattered them Lightnings and discomfited them And it is recorded of Aquinas that when it Thundered he was wont to fall down and with much devotion to pray Lord help and succour thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood Job Iob 38. 39. cap. 40. ver 4. Cap. 41. 42. vers 6. if we be not mistaken in those definitions which we have received of that vertue had not many equals for Magnanimity and Fortitude and yet after an account of the greatnesse of God discovered in his mighty works how full is his heart of awfulnesse and feare And his friend Elihu being to mention the excellent marvellous roaring voice of Thunder they are his owne expressions knows not how to do it without a preface cloathed in feare and reverence At this also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place Job 37.1 c. Neither should it be any abatement of our respects to the great God that Thunder is known to have its naturall causes For those causes are kno●n to have their cause too and are but the effects of an higher Nature hath nothing to boast of but what God endoweth her with who acteth without it beside it above it Contracteth or enlargeth it even as he pleaseth And when he doth not either of these yet doth he not leave any thing at any time meerly to the hand of its Causes but hath himselfe an Agency in the Production of it and that an immediate one Immediatione virtutis suppositi say some At least virtutis is confessed by all Nature hath nothing that she hath not received neither is she Independent in any one in the smallest operation For that would argue an Independency of power and that of being which none can challenge but God alone Do not say Then every thing that comes to passe in the world and even the daily imployments of Nature must call out our hearts to I know not how many duties For can you tell why they should not Is there any possibility of supererogation Can you love fear praise admire adore our God too much But yet Reader the greatest manifestation of the power majesty of God should work most Thunder is one of these and a voice of the Almighty loud enough to awaken our hearts to all these sorts of acknowledgments The reverend Author hath made it his present businesse in the ensuing Treatise to perswade our attention to it The discourse is pious and hath cost him some pains Your Prayers are desired that it may be useful and afford the people of God much profit which I am the more perswaded to hope of it when I finde it to be though in more words not a jot more then that pathetical exhortation of the Apostle Heb. 12.28 29. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly feare for our God is a consuming fire Which will abundantly praeponderate the prejudice it might otherwise receive from its Conduct into the world by the unable hand of so obscure and inconsiderable a Person as Reader Your servant in the work of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Edw Buckler THE CONTENTS TWo Observations raised from Job 26.14 Obser 1 That the highest operations most excelent works of GOD cannot be reached by Mans understanding The Reasons 7. Reason 1 Mans darknesse and sloath since the Fall Ubi of the grosse errors of Philosophers Of our want of Reading Travelling Meditation Of the Brevity of Life Reason 2 The variety of Species and Individuals Reason 3 The infinite wisdome of God which is stamped upon all his works Ubi of imperfect false Descriptions of Gods works Of some Rarities in Nature for which no reason can be given Reason 4 Gods Power and Wisdome is displayed in GREAT and SMALL creatures Ubi of the Whale Elephant and Precious Stones Reason 5 Men are admired who have any thing well IMITATED Gods Works Reason 6 A Mass and multitude of wonders do attend the visible Heavens Reason 7 PROVIDENCE is very mysterious and is a kinde of continuall Creation The Inferences follow which are four Inference 1 See their presumptuous folly and madnesse who pretend to know GOD and all his works Inference 2 See the necessity of Vniversities Learning Ubi of unwearied diligence in study Philosophy a faire Hand-maid to Theology Inference 3 Read what you can of GOD in the Volumn of Creation and Providence Inference 4 Comfort for Saints In heaven we shall know more of GOD and his works Heaven the rarest of Gods Works It hath been long preparing for us Obser 2 The terrible Meteor of THVNDER is a most lively manifestation of the LORDS greatnesse and power The trumpet of his glorious Majestie and matchlesse Perfections Four enquiries in the opening of this Truth Enquiry 1 How this expression in holy Job may be taken and understood Answ 3 wayes Enquiry 2 What Thunder is Ubi of it's Name Nature Effects Also of the Thunder-bolt Tempests Lightnings Earth quakes Haile great and fearefull Of violent Thunders and Lightnings mentioned in our Chronicles with dreadful effects Enquiry 3 If any other then GOD be the Author Instruments of these things Answ 1. GOD the efficient cause of Thunder which is his