,g8 Chap. 38. An ExpoRion etpon the Book,pf I O. B. Verf. 2 which God threatned jerufafem, to the cutting off or utterde.. ruion of man and beaft (Ezek; t.l.. 8.) Every battei of the warner iswith cgalled 'wife, andgarments rolled in bland (ffa 5. ) Ccniuled noires are the mufick of a battei, and bloody garments the bravery of it ; then prize peace , pray for peace, That (as the Apofile di;eets, Z7heff. 3. 16..) The Lord of Peace himfelf would give ass peace always by all meins, For though that may be doubted and quetied,which fome have fully alerted, That the mot+ unequal peace is to be preferred before the jufteft war ; yet the juftert war may bring, though peace and honour at laf , yet in the mean time innumerable troubles and evils with it. Thirdly, Note ; God tan makeany creaturehurtful andaffiielive to sr. Snow is of great ufe, and ferves much toadvance the fruttful-, nefs of the earth ,, and is joyned with rain in that effe&, Ufa. 55. to.) As therm.): comethdown , and thefnow fromhea- ven, and returneth not thither, but watereththe earth, and ma- keth it bring forth and bud ,&c. (by the concurrent blefing of God) So, &c. Snow as wdl as rain is a blefling to the earth, not an afflidtion; yea fnow is tiled by fome asa delicacy rocool their drink in hot Countries and feafons ; which ufe of it was fiat kund out by that monfler of men Nero, faith Pliny, who thus de- euprodigia claimsandp-orefis againft his intemperance; O the prodigies oflu- ventra! Ht x;ory ! fame drink fn-w,others ice, and fo torn the punifhenents of the r<ivem itlt gls- mountains (fo he calls fnow and ice as to prefent fence) into their priemporsnt, own lea ure or to ferve their volnptuoufnefs. Now though the enafguemon P , glom a; volup fnow,according to Gods appointment be profitable to the earth, totem gul and istiredby force men to ferve their pleafures and pleafe their verront. ?1ín., fenfual appetite , yet God can make a fcourge of it, if he plea- ' 09. C. 4' f th and deftroy both our profits and pleafures it. He can 3'1' `' ;filet us,not onely with ftrong and flormy winds, not onely with dreadful thunder and lightning , but with fnow, which is loft as wool, and hail-Hones, which ufually children fport and play with.. He hathdeftroyed finners not onely by lions and bears,nnd fuch like ravenousbeafis,, but with frogs and mice, with lice and locals , as was toucht before. There are two things which, Qrew the mighty power of, food in the Creature,. Firft,,
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