452 Verf- j, újn Lxhay`ìtion upon the Boclj of 3 p B. Chap. 37. rd,,,,,i cita- for >, yet becaufe Lightning is fo fvvifc in motion they were wont o°m h,rnc? ,. to 13ron ounce ; Lightning being fo quick and a6live,.they á;bur ful,ir thought it wasnot Cuit able to draw it out ira speakingby a longpro- tu; errFtro re r Brat nunciat ion. But though Lightning have fuch a violent and fwitt antdgttsr media n:o ion, yet 'Lis under Gods command and dire&ior, and it (hall fy'k a revrepra na kt nomore halle than God will. An arrow flies with a very vio- ur. i:?rentfut- lent and fwìft motion, yet it is God that di.;e6eth the arrow, ßP e. Sett .1i5. he of-ens ir more than the man that (hoots it and when 2. Nat quai. ; cap. 56. a t.,sr is made, as we fay, at random, God thendi ecf it ; as in thar notable hit-tory of Ahab, whenhe, againa the couldof God given ,;inn by Micaiah, would needs go up to the barrel at Ramoth Gilead (t Kings 12, 34. ) the text faith, There war a man who drew a born at a venture, we put in the Ma gin, He drew a bow in his frnplìciry-, he had no fpecial intcn ion againtt Arab, he did not aior at Ahab when he Phot his arrow, but God ca ied it to the right mark,rn fulfil that which he had de, ermined and fp, ken con- ce oing Ahab ; yea, he dir eted it not only ro the i ;ht man, but to the right place, the joynt of his artnotr, When in ba tcl,arro:vs, and darts, and bulletsa-e fent forth, as in many rounder- bolts, the Lo-d dires them and hands them whither they (hall go, w!-om they lhall hit, and where(yod at ó direCleth the thunder-b Itsof his Word, where and whom they thal! hir. And (to the point in general ) that the Lord bath a guidance over chofe things that are molt contingent, we may fee in that of Mofes, when he gave a i'rovidensra Law from the Lod about the man char âoeth with, his Neighbour acon oft incerta to cut Wood ; If ( faith he ) the headfhpp>rh (rain the helve, and out var. lighteth uponhis neighbour that he d%e, he (hall flee into one of thole cities and live (Meut,( c. 5.) Thereafortof this Law iseapref ed ( Exod, 2a. t 3. ) because in fuch coming-nt cafes Gad delvers him into his hand ; the man had no intent to hit his Neighbour, but feching a blow, the! ad fie :h from the helve, and bath hits and kills him; and to .(hew char thi : contingency was ordered byGod' the text faith, Goddelivered him into his hand. And forafmuch as God bath _fuch a power over the motions of the crearut-e,ir maybe marrer of comport and incouragemenr to us, not only wih:h rer'peet to Thunder and Lightning, that we fhould not fear them, as the heathen, who neither know nor fear God bra we may Cake comfort from hence alto, with refile& to the moll violent and htartied motions that we fee here below. When we
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