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A32805	Of God Almighty's providence both in the sending and dissolving great snows & frosts, and the improvement we ought to make of it a sermon occasioned by the late extreme cold weather, preached in it to his neighbours, and now thought fit to be made more public, for the common good / by Benj. Camfield ...	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1684 (1684)	Wing C382; ESTC R5822	19,660	35

Vatablus Upon his bidding it is that the Earth yieldeth her increase and Nature with all her Auxiliaries is at his pow'rful beck In the Text it self we have 1. A general Acknowledgment of God's over-ruling Providence He sendeth forth his Commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly And 2. A particular Illustration or Exemplification of it by way of Instance both in the Giving and Removing great Snows and Frosts with Hail and Ice He giveth Snow like wool and scattereth the Hoar-frost like Ashes He casteth forth his Ice like Morsels Who is able to abide his Frost or who can stand before his cold He sendeth out his word and melteth them He bloweth with his wind or causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 1. I say A General acknowledgment of Gods over-ruling Providence throughout the world He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly Mandat tantum statim executio sequitur Scultetus He only calls and all things answer him he commands and the Execution follows upon it Thus at first by the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as an heap and layeth up the Deep in Store-houses viz. by the same word of his mouth Let all the Earth fear the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the World stand in awe of him For he spake and it was done He commanded and it stood fast Psal XXXIII vi x. see Genes I. His Almighty Fiat produced all things out of nothing And by the same are they still preserved Upholding all things by the word of his power saith the Apostle Hebr. I. iii and so are they also Ruled and Governed as here we have it He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly This sending forth his commandment is nothing else but that hidden yet effectual way whereby he orders all things Calvin He no sooner speaks gives out the word of order issues out his Warrant and Commission but praestò ad parendum concurrunt omnia all things are at hand upon it ready to obey him yea quick and nimble in their observance of him His word runneth very swiftly Verbo solo quicquid vult efficere potest Munster By his word alone he can do every where whatsoever he will And this 2. he goes on to evidence and illustrate by examples namely by his sudden sending of Great Snows and Frosts with Hail and Ice and as sudden dissolving of them again when he pleaseth In the expressing of which he is very Poetical We will take the Particulars as they lie i. He giveth Snow like Wool Nix aemula lanae Vellera nivis Virg. He turns the moist vapours of the Air into white flakes of Snow which descend silently and within a while lie a great thickness as a Fleece of wool on the ground wherewith it is no less warmly clad and nourished and defended from the biting winds than the sheep is by its wool or our bodies by garments made of it Thus Snow hath not only the colour and likeness but the defensive and comforting properties of wool It is not an injury but a benefit to the Earth And Rabbi Arama said Dies unus nivium prodest plus quam quinque Dies pluviae Viccars Decapla in loc One day of Snow doth more good than Five of Rain ii He scattereth the Hoar-frost like ashes Instar Cineris that is as some of the Hebrew Doctors comment upon it Parum hic parum illic Ibid. Here a little and there a little or it may be as we do ashes to dry up superfluous moisture in wet places Vitreâ cum Terra pruinâ Spargitur By his word the Frost comes which he gently strews upon the surface of the Earth iii. He casteth forth his Ice like morsels Tanquam Frusta Some refer it unto Hail-storms q.d. Dr. Patrick's Par. Sometimes he congeals the moist vapours into Ice which he breaks as it were into bits and throws down in a violent Hail Lapidosae grandinis imber Others rather to the Freezing of the earth and waters Dr. Hammond when the whole Surface is congealed into a firmness as strong as Chrystal able to bear the greatest weight and a multitude of pieces of Ice are scattered on the face of the ground like morsels of bread without any appearance of moisture in them which the Poets also are wont to express after a like manner speaking in Great Frosts of Drinking morsels of Wine swallowing it down by Gobbets Nec hausta meri sed data frusta bibunt Ovid. And whole Rivers stop'd in their course Glacie cursus fraenantur aquarum as a Horse by his Reins and standing with a thick Crust of hard Ice over them Stabant jam Flumina duro incrustata gelu Id. Nay and High-ways made by this means for Men and Horses and Carriages on the Deeps and standing Bridges erected as it were over the Great Waters As Ovid phraseth it speaking of the Cold upon Pontus Quáque rates ierant pedibus nunc itur undas Frigore concretas Vngula pulsat Equi Perque novos pontes subter labentibus undis Ducunt Sarmatici barbara plaustra boves iv It is added who is able to abide his Frost or who can stand before his Cold such is sometimes the severity of this pinching weather such the extremity of the cold that neither Man nor Beast on the Earth nor Birds in the Air nor Fishes in the Rivers are able to resist the Force of it or long to support and endure under its assaults It stupifies and benumbs all our senses Non tractabile Frigus and stagnates our blood Torpetque vinctus frigido sanguis gelu c. and turns us almost into so many petrified monuments of its rigorous fury It cuts off Intercourse between Country and Country blocks up the Merchant and Mariners in the Haven or which is worse starves them abroad at Sea It confines the Traveller from his journeys It clogs the Mills that they cannot Grind our Corn and so produceth a kind of Dearth in the midst of abundance Nay it converts our very Bread and Meat and Drink into Stones It retains the busie Husbandman within from his Field-●…ork and makes the very savage Creatures keep to their Hideing places And though the more Northern Climates are usually more sensible of this as the Inhabitants of Russia and Muscovie who are put to all the Art they have to make Defensatives against it yet whensoever God pleaseth he can call it also into the most temperate and warm Regions under Heaven as we have had of late some considerable Feeling of it His hand you see is all along to be owned and observed in these things He giveth the Snow He scattereth the Hoar-frost He casteth forth his Hail or Ice And it is his Cold too

vi c. Go to the Ant thou Sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no Guide Overseer or Ruler provideth her Meat in the Summer and gathereth her Food in the Harvest There is no such ingenious Tutor of all sorts of Prudence as Necessity Quis expedirit Psittaco suum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magister artis ingenique largitor venter Persius II. Next as to others it trains us up to all the bowels of Compassion and Charity in consulting what we can for their Indigence and Infirmities to help and enable them to support themselves and Families under those pinching Extremities which do sometimes attend the Season of the year With Dorcas to make Coats and Garments for the poor Widows Acts IX xxxix And with the hospitable Batharians at Melita to shew all possible Kindness to ship wrack'd Strangers kindling them a Fire and taking them into shelter because of the present Rain and Cold. As St. Paul records that lovely instance of heathen Goodness and Humanity Acts XXVIII i ii How great a Charity and Benificence is it to contribute towards the Relief of the necessitous in Fewel and Cloths and Harbour as well as Food to render the bitter winter tolerable And III. It trains us up especially to the religious Fear and Obedience of God Let all the earth fear the Lord saith the Psalmist let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him as I quoted it before and that from a like Topic Psalm XXXIII And he takes notice whether we make that use of our Reason as we should to infer this Duty from hence and lets us know how ill he resents it if we do not so Witness that Complaint against his people for this neglect Jerem. V. xxiv Neither say they in their heart Let us now fear the Lord our God who giveth us Rain the former and the latter Rain in its season and reserveth to us the appointed Weeks of the Harvest That is Who crowneth the year with his Goodness feedeth us with the Fat of Wheat and for the Production of that commands the Clouds and Seasons c. But This is not all I would here suggest This farther offers it self to our Thoughts That it is highly Reasonable we should learn Obedience to Him whose commands all Things else so readily obey Even Snow and Hail and Ice Storm and Tempest fulfilling his word We should therefore learn Obedience from them that we be not Heteroclites and Exceptions from the rest of the Creation unto whom it might be expected that we who are in a Form above them should rather set a good Example And we should learn this Obedience the more because what in them is Necessity only may in us be a Vertue and a Vertue highly to be rewarded from our Lord and Masters Bounty And still the more because the Ties of Gratitude are upon us We are obliged to pay this Tribute of Thankfulness to him whom all Things else obey for our Benefit and Welfare to maintain us in Health and Strength and Chearfulness that we may do him service And that without anxious and diffident cares for our own Provision what we shall Eat and what we shall Drink and wherewith we shall be cloathed Si●…e the Lord we serve is both able and willing to supply us with all these Necessaries Being such in power and Wisdom and Goodness as we have heard him described Who sendeth his commandment upon Earth and his word runneth very swiftly who giveth Snow like wooll and scattereth the Hoar-frost like Ashes who casteth forth his Ice like Morsels so that none is able to withstand his cold who sendeth out his word again and melteth them bloweth with his South Wind and the Waters flow Now unto this Supreme All-perfect Being the Creator Preserver and Ruler of the world the Almighty and Everlasting God who Governs all Things both in Heaven and Earth be ascribed by us as is most due All Honour and Glory and Praise and Adoration with Thanksgiving and Obedience for ever and ever Amen The END Books lately printed and sold by Ric. 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When Job had spoken sundry Great Things of God he adds These are parts of his ways But how little a portion is heard of him but the Thunder of his power who can understand chap. xxvi xiv q.d. These are but a small parcel of his works For alas It is very little indeed that such as we can understand of him but the utmost Force of his power is quite out of our ken But then if we are posed in these vulgar Things which every were affect our Senses how absurd and presumptuous is it for us to pry boldly into more hidden mysteries or take upon our selves to contradict any of the Divine Revelations concerning them Canst thou by scarching find out God saith Zopar well Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection It is as high as Heaven what canst Thou do Deeper than Hell what canst thou know The measure thereof is longer than the Earth and broader than the Sea Job XI vii viii ix That is Thou maist as as well go about to take the measure of the height of Heaven or the Depth of Hell the length of the Earth or Breadth of the Sea as think to comprehend the Reasons of God's Doings Nay all These have their certain Bounds and Limits but He hath none We shall do well to make an Essay and try our selves first with the Resolving of the me mest of these common Instances which are about us before we presume upon those which are more Remote and Hidden And by this very means God himself silenceth Job shewing of him that He who found himself Gravel'd and Non-plus'd in accounting for the meanest of his visible works should nor dare to penetrate into the wisdom of his secret Counsels convincing him all along of his ignorance and weakness by shewing him how little he understood of the most obvious Things of the world And thus also our Blessed Saviour deals with Nicodemus St. John III. Tho the wind bloweth where it listeth saith he and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth So is every one that is born of the Spirit If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things Teach us saith Elihu in a due sense of humane infirmity and blindness what we shall say unto him for we cannot order our speech by reason of Darkness Fair or Cold weather cometh out of the North with God is Terrible Majesty Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out He is excellent in power and in plenty of Justice Job XXXVII xix c. Let me here put you in mind therefore of the counsel of the wise son of Sirach Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee neither search the things which are above thy strength but what is commanded thee think thereupon with reverence For it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret Be not curious in unnecessary matters for more things are shewed to thee than men understand For many are deceived by their own vain opinion c. Eccles III. xxi c. And then add that of the Author of the Book of Wisdom What man is he that can know the Counsel of God or Who can think what the Will of the Lord is For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable and our devices are uncertain For the corruptible Body presseth down the soul and the earthly Tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth and with labour do we sind the things that are before us But the things that are in heaven who hath searched out And thy Counsel who hath known except thou give Wisdom and send thy Spirit from above Wisd IX xiii c. There is more edifying and useful Truth and Philosophy which indeed should never be made two distinct things in saying that God bringeth the Rain and Hail and Snow and Winds out of his Treasures his to us unknown and unsearchable Magazines or Store-houses than in any particular reasons we can otherwise assign of them without or besides him IV. We learn from hence farther Not to expect or look for any setled or fixed state of affairs to last and abide long with us in a world that is continually uncertain and mutable liable to such variety of changes from his Almighty Word who presides and governs all things in it He trains us up by the very course of his Providence to look and provide continually for Changes even by the circular Revolution of the several Seasons of the year and the manifold difference which we feel and experience time after time in those Seasons The Spring introduceth Summer and Summer Autumn and Autumn Winter and then Winter again is succeeded by the more welcome Spring c. But we have a strange Interchange sometimes of Winterly weather with our Summers and Summer-weather again with our Winters The day is thine and the night is also thine saith the Psalmist thou hast prepared the Light and the Sun that is the Moon and Sun thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made them Summer and Winter Psal LXXIV xvi xvii The Heavens are thine the Earth also is thine Thou hast made the North and the South Psalm LXXXIX xii xiii Which if we would allegorize the Preacher tells us That God hath set the day of Prosperity and Adversity over against each other that man should find nothing after him Eccles VII xiv That is Nothing justly to blame or amend in God's works and yet be at continual uncertainty what shall befall him that he may live the rather in a submissive Dependence upon him who orders all according to the Counsel of his own Will even all things in Measure Number and Weight with the greatest Skill and Exactness though we know it not or cannot give an account of it Good is set against evil and Life against Death Yea Look upon all the works of the most High saith the son of Sirach and there are two and two one against another Eccles XXXIII xiv xv And again All things are double one against another saith he and he hath made nothing imperfect But one thing establisheth the good of another Ch. XLII xxiv xxv V. Therefore we are from hence trained up in the midst of our greatest Serenity and Happiness in our summer days of Prosperity to be moderate and sober considering how we and all we have and are related to are at the Disposal of the sovereign Ruler among the Children of men Who sendeth forth his Commandment upon Earth and his Word runneth very swiftly who can soon blacken our Skie with Clouds and from thence send forth his Artillery of Snow and Hail and Rain and Cold upon us This also is well expressed by the son of Sirach When thou hast enough remember the time of Hunger and when thou art Rich