A SERMON Preached Feb. 19. 1692. Upon the FUNERAL Of that late Excelllent Servant of Our LORD JESUS Mr. Richard Fincher Who Finished his Course Feb. 10. 1692. By SAMUEL SLATER M. A. Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed by J. Astwood for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey 1693. To that Flock of CHRIST of which Holy Mr. FINCHER was the Faithful Pastor DEAR FRIENDS GOD having made a sore Breach upon you by taking home his Servant to himself you made it your joint Request that I would Preach to you upon that sad and solemn Occasion The entire Love between him and me together with the Kindness I have for you forbad my Denial I did the thing through Divine Assistance You then came upon me for the Publishing of what had been delivered and therein prevailed too Here it is the Lord accompany this Sermon with a Blessing that it may be profitable to you all and many more Having given you so much Counsel already I shall desire your following it and will here add no more but begg for you the Divine Conduct Grace and Influence And you MADAM whose Conjugal Relation to this Worthy Person hath been dissolved I have rejoiced to see patiently bearing it as one Taught of God and Oh that you may have fuller refreshings flowing into you from the Fountain of all good now that pleasant stream is cut off And though your Communion here was but short may you have in Heaven an Eternal Communion with one another and both with God You all I commend to him and the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and give you an Inheritance among them that are sanctified In short be you all upright with God study Godliness in its Power live the Truths you Hear and Profess adorn the Gospel by an Exemplary Conversation do not divide but walk in Peace and Love though the Shepherd be smitten let not the Sheep scatter but the Lord give you another after his own Heart I am Yours in our Dear Lord Jesus Samuel Slater From my Study March 10. 1692 3. Lately Printed for John Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey MR. Slater's Thanksgiving-Sermon Octob. the 27th 1692. Quarto Mr. Slater's Sermon at the Funeral of that Faithful Servant of Christ Mr. John Reynolds Minister of the Gospel who Dyed December 25. 1692. Quarto The true Interest of a Nation or the Duty of Magistrates Ministers and People in an Assize-Sermon at Bucks July 5. 1692. By John Howard M.A. Rector of Marston-Trussel Quarto Mr. Addy's excellent Book of Short-Hand by whom the Bible is done in the same Short-hand Octavo The Collections of Letters for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade are continued Weekly at 1 d. each By John Houghton Fellow of the Royal Society PSAL. CXIX 75. I know O Lord that thy Judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me WHether we reckon this Psalm to David the sweet Singer of Israel or to some other holy Man of God as the Penman thereof it is past all question that the Divine Spirit was the Inditer of it and we have reason to judge it worthy of so great an Author because full of most rich and excellent matter You may observe in it the Description of a godly man whose Picture is curiously drawn and to the Life in his Graces and holy duties and sore afflictions and manifold Experiences and sweet Consolations But passing by the Consideration of the whole I shall confine my Discourse and for the present engage your Meditations to these words which I have been directed to as a Subject very proper upon this sad and solemn Occasion In which we plainly see the Friendly happy agreement between a most wise and holy God and an humbled afflicted Saint under and about those dark Providences and smarting Dispensations which are ordered out unto him when there is not only a Rod but a Scorpion in the hand of the former and multiplyed yea deep wounds on the back of the latter The holy Prophet doth here speak as a man lying under the Judgments of God and exercised with Afflictions a Child dear to his Father and over him yet under his frown but in this very case far from quarrelling the Rod and contending with his Father about it he humbly submits and sweetly quiets himself freely making this ingenuous and thankful Acknowledgment I know O Lord that thy Judgments are right and that thou in Faithfulness hast afflicted me The terms in the Text are so obvious and very easie not needing that much time should be spent in their Explication Therefore all that I shall say to that purpose will be no more than this The word Judgment is variously used in the sacred Scripture and particularly in this Psalm frequently we are to understand by it the Law of God his Statutes and Commandements these are the Judgments of his mouth which in and concerning all things are right there is nothing perverse in them but as Silver tried in a Furnace of Earth seven times free from all dross Rom. 7.12 The Law is holy and the Commandment holy just and good Now if any Person be inclined thus to understand the word in this place he shall have my leave so to do I will not contend with him about it Yet in my apprehension it seems much more suitable to the Mind and Scope of the Prophet in this Place to understand by Judgments those troubles and calamities which the Lord is pleased to order out to the Children of Men while they tabernacle in Flesh and are passing thorough this vale of tears Those Providences of God which have an angry aspect and frowning Countenance whether they be penal and acts of revenge and so inflicted upon wicked men his Enemies or only castigatory and corrective and so laid upon good Men and Women his Children are Judgments Thus 1 Pet. 4.17 The time is come that judgment must begin at the House of God and if it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God If there be such sufferings for Gods Subjects and Favourites how will he handle Rebels So again observe that place in the 1 Corinth 11.32 If we would judge our selves we should not be judged but when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the World And such Dispensations may very fitly be called Judgments on a twofold Account First Because they are rectoral and judicial acts they are acts of Government put forth by God as holding the Reins in his hand as sitting in the Throne judging right and rendering unto men according to their Works Even when they are ordered out to the Saints themselves not only for probation or the Exercise of their Graces but likewise for their sins there is not only a design of Love in the Bowels of them and mercifull Purposes carrying on but there are Characters and Marks of displeasure ingraven
the dust as one that had not a word to say against God but he opened it with wisdom as one that had enough to say for God and to his praise I know that thy judgments are right in the Original it is as the Margin of our Bibles tells you Righteousness Righteousness it self they can be no more charged with being wrong or unjust than light can with being dark or sweetness it self with being bitter And though thou hast afflicted me and dost still I own it was and is in Faithfulfulness So that here was no such thing as a quarrel no such thing as an Objection no finding of any fault but justifying of God and an humble acquiescence in his Will and the Product thereof Now here I would have this in the first place in a special manner taken notice of That it is Gods Purpose and fixed Resolution that which his Heart is very much set upon to have all things clear'd up and set to right between him and his People whom he dearly loves and hath set apart for himself and for an intimate and everlasting communion with Him in the other and better World It is his unalterable Will that there shall be a mutual satisfaction He will have a full satisfaction concerning them and they again shall have a full satisfaction concerning him First God will have a full satisfaction concerning his People I say God is immoveably resolved upon that He will have satisfaction But alas a poor Soul will say I cannot give it him Job 9.2 3. How should man be just with God if he should contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand Not one mercy of a thousand they have been so ill improved not one sin of a thousand they are so foul hainous and crying But be not discouraged at that for since the Best of men are not able to make satisfaction He himself hath been graciously pleased to make Provision and to find out a way for the doing of it and hath to that end and purpose laid help upon one that is mighty that so his righteous and holy Law may not quarrel but be answered in all its demands and that none of his glorious Attributes may have cause to complain but whatever Objections may be raised and brought in against them upon account of the Corruption and vitiousness of their Natures or the sinfulness and Irregularities of their Hearts and Carriages may receive a full answer and so all Obstructions and rubs which lay in the way of their Happiness may be removed And so he hath found a full and will take an eternal satisfaction in that which his only begotten and most dearly beloved Son and our most gracious and blessed Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ did freely undertake and fully perform in a way of active and passive Obedience from that Sacrifice of himself which our High-Priest did once for all offer up God hath smelt a sweet savour of rest so that in Him he is now and for ever well-pleased with them He can now close with them and with delight embrace them with his Arms and lay them in the Bosom of his Love Mark the Language of his Grace which is poured out of his Lips and how sweetly he calls to them Isa 1.18 Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as Wooll And now the Devil is cast down who is the great Accuser of the Brethren that would make it his business to accuse them day and night before God in his Temple God will not give an Ear to him He had as good sit still only his Hatred and Malice against you is so great that he cannot Well Christians look to it that you do not listen to Satans Temptations and you may be sure your Father will not listen to his Accusations He is satisfied concerning you by his Son and in him you are accepted You are not satisfied with your selves not with the Frame of your Hearts but would have them more spiritual holy and heavenly nor with your Duties but would have them more according to Gospel rule You would serve God better and be more with him yet in thorough and by the Lord Jesus Christ God is satisfied concerning you and with you so that he reckons you his Jewels his Portion and Inheritance and in this you have reason to rejoyce And then further Secondly It is the Will of God concerning his People that they should likewise have a full satisfaction concerning him and all his Dispensations as they have had Psal 22.2 3. O my God I cry in the Day-time and thou hearest not and in the Night-season and am not silent but thou art holy O thou that inhabitest the Praises of Israel And so Asaph acknowledged in the 77th Psalm That God's way was in the Sanctuary a most holy way though at that time it was a mysterious and abstruse way His way was in the sea and his path in the great waters and his footsteps were not known And God takes this well at their Hands he hath his Book of Remembrance for such Malachy 3.16 and it is that he doth expect from all his People and will bring them to That he expects it from them is clear from his expostulating with them as in Ezek. 18.25 Hear O House of Israel is not my way equal are not your ways unequal and so in Isa 40.27 28. Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel my way is hid from the Lord and my judgment passed over from my God Hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding And thus he dealt with the tachy Prophet Jonah who was so much off the Hooks upon the sparing of Nineveh and the Withering of the Gourd in the shadow whereof he had so exceedingly rejoiced the Lord was pleased to speak to him more than once Jonah 4.4 Dost thou well to be angry And again Ver. 9. Dost thou well to be angry for the Gourd Have I been so merciful to Nineveh and to thy self too Jonah and wilt thou be froward with me Dost thou well to be Angry Have I done amiss Have I given thee any Cause God would have all his People pleas'd with what he doth and in Order to that satisfied and they have reason to be so because it is he that doth it Were there no more that should in our Esteem be enough alone David counted it so in Psal 39.9 10. though he was almost consumed with the blow of God's Hand yet he was dumb and opened not his mouth because He did it And as God would have this in his People and doth expect it from them so he is able to effect it and bring it to pass He that hath found out a way to satisfie himself
upon them for though God is so gracious that he will not cast off his Children for sin yet he is so holy that he will not bear with sin in his Children but they shall feel he is offended if they transgress they shall suffer if they will break the Hedge some of the Thorns shall stick in their sides Psal 89.30 c. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my judgments if they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments then will I visit their transgressions with the Rod and their Iniquity with Stripes This he threatned notwithstanding he promiseth in the very next words that his loving kindness he will not utterly take from him nor suffer his faithfulness to fail He will not break his Covenant nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips Secondly They may well be called Judgments upon the Account of Gods ordering them out in infinite Wisdom In wrath he remembers Mercy and doth all as becomes him to do it He knowes what is best to be done and how much his Children bear and what the Providence will issue in and how the Physick will work Isa 30.18 The Lord is a God of Judgment blessed are all they that wait for him His Judgments are with judgment This good man readily subscribed to it O Lord thy judgments are right such as they should be there is not any such thing in them that can be mended and therefore nothing that should be quarrel'd And he doth not stop here though it is good for one in trouble to come to this but he goeth on thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me These Dispensations do speak thee both a righteous Judge and a cordial Friend in what thou hast done thou hast been true to thy gracious Word and to my chief Interest though Flesh grumbles and saith there is severity in this stroke yet my Faith speaks better of my God and tells me there is his Love in it He hath done nothing but what he might do to me and what He hath done doth really make for me Though my Spirit be not right nor my Duties right nor my Carriage right yet his Judgements are right And He doth not speak this at random as one that had a mind to be talking though it be he did not know what nor doth he speak it with any hesitancy or misgiving of Mind lest it should afterward be found otherwise but with the greatest assurance confidence and alacrity imaginable that he might work a belief in others who should hear of it I know saith he I know very well what I say I know the thoughts that I have of my God and his dealings with me they are not vain and mistaken thoughts but highly rational and well grounded But you may ask How did he come to know this I answer two wayes First By the Word of Truth Which speaks plainly Deut. 32. He is the rock his work is perfect for all his wayes are judgment a God of truth and without iniquity just and right is He. Secondly He knew it by other Saints Experiences and his own Both my Predecessors and my Contemporaries have been able to make an honourable Report of God and so am I Psal 119.67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy Word And again in the 71 Vers It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I may learn thy Statutes These words do afford us several Truths worthy of our consideration and repeated Thoughts I will only name them First Many of those Afflictions which come upon the Saints are the Judgments of God upon them I do not say all are so but many Probably the stroke of God upon you of this Congregation is a Judgment I do not take upon me positively to determin it but it will be no prejudice to you to look upon it under that Notion and carry accordingly humbling your selves under the hand of God and learning Righteousness Is there not a Cause Find it out if you can and beg that God would lead you into the knowledge of it Job 10.2 I will say unto God Do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest with me Secondly The dearest of Gods Saints are within the reach of his Judgments and may be exercised by them As he will to their comfort gloriously manifest the love so when occasion requires he will use the Authority of a Father If his Children will be sinfully deaf to Doctrine he will open their Ears to Discipline and by it Those that will not be pliant to the Word shall feel the Rod. He hath such a Love to them and Care of them that he will be sure to whip them though he doth not willingly rather than lose them Thirdly The administrations of God to his People in his judging and afflicting them are ever managed with unspotted Righteousness and Faithfulness Reproach shall never cleave to his Majesty He will neither give his Glory to another nor in the least stain and blemish it himself He can do nothing but what is right and he will do nothing to his People but what is good It is impossible for him to do any thing which shall violate the Law of Equity and no less impossible is it for him to do any thing which is inconsistent with his own everlasting Covenant or their Interest and good Fourthly God doth and will satisfie his People about this They shall be able to say I know it they shall both see and feel it Justice and Faithfulness shall be so plainly impress'd upon his Dispensations and in such legible Characters that they shall run and read them In order hereunto God hath been pleased to do much in his Word and he will do more by his holy and almighty Spirit who dwelleth with them and will be in them and make all effectual upon them But none of these things shall be the Subjects of the following Discourse any further than as they will fall in under the handling of that Doctrin which I intended for and which with the Blessing of God will prove to your advantage and that is this Doct. Vnder the most afflictive Providences the Children of God ought to press on to and be expressive of a full satisfaction of Soul concerning the Righteousness and Faithfulness of God in them We ought to be satisfied and have reason so to be of that I shall speak in the doctrinal part We ought to express that satisfaction of this in the Application The Text we have before us doth afford a very sufficient and solid Foundation for us to build such a Conclusion upon We find this holy man had been met with by God in the way of his Judgments and exercised with Afflictions but we do also find that the Lord and his Servant were Friends notwithstanding that and perfectly agreed this clearly appears by the honourable Testimony he gives concerning God and his smart dealing with him He did not only put his mouth in
Judgments or Afflictions which God Orders out to his People in all the Circumstances of them and we shall find they are right throughout Here I might be very large but will Contract His Judgments are right as to the Principle from which God acts in the Ordering them out and as to the End at which he aims and as to the Means of which he makes Use and as to the Measure of their Sufferings how much they shall bear and as to the Time how long they shall continue God is so exact in these and all other things that can possibly be named that there is not the smallest Failure That which they said of our dear Lord Jesus while he was here on Earth we may most truly affirm of God He hath done all things well Were the World to begin again all his Providences should be as they have been because nothing in them can be mended I will give some light touches and short hints upon those things which I have named and so pass on There are Judgments and dark Providences which God Orders out to Churches and particular Saints but the Principle from which in them God acts is a Principle of Love and that is not only right but sweet He Loves them while he afflicts them and he afflicts them because he Loves them Revel 3.19 As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Possibly his Love is not plainly impress'd upon the Rod so that thou canst run and read it at present it is conceal'd but it will break out and shew it seif in due time Ephraim was as a Bullock unaccustomed to the Yoke impatient and unruly and as such he was Chastised the Whip smarted and the Goad pricked him yet he was God's dear Son and pleasant Child and his Father resolved to have Mercy upon him God hath taken this and that from you Moderate your Grief for He will not take his loving kindness from you The Rod may smart and put you to Pain but it is the Hand of Divine Love which lays it on As God is right in the Principle from which he acts so He is in the End at which he aims for that is exceeding gracious Heb. 12.10 He chastens us not for his own pleasure but for our profit that we may be partakers of his holiness He aims not at the Weakening of our Bodies and Estates but the Mending of our Souls not that we might be made the poorer by it but the better And as this is his End so it shall be attained Rom. 8.28 We know that all things shall work together for good to them that love God They have done it hitherto and so they shall for the future It is clear from constant Experience We know it Good is in the Heart and Purpose of God and all things shall be subservient to it all shall make their Contributions This late Providence the Death of your Worthy Pastor was for good for certain it was good for him to him to live was Christ and therefore to him to dye must needs be gain unless Paul were mistaken Philip. 1.21 That you will easily grant viz. He is no loser by leaving of the World and of You because he is gone to Heaven He is where He would be where He knows more and enjoys more and is better than he could here had he lived Methuselah's Age and this shall work for good to you also But you do not see how that should be It is very likely you are dim-sighted and see but a little way and let this be enough for you as indeed it is at present that though you do not see God doth who is Wiser than you And then God is right as to the Means which he useth Those that he makes Choice of and employs are the best that could be in the Case Or if they be not so in themselves he both can and will make them so if they be too Weak he will Impower them and if they have no Virtue of their own he will Infuse some into them as in the Sound of Rams-Horns before which the Walls of Jericho fell or if they be contrary he will reconcile them One would think Clay and Spittle are enough to put out seeing Eyes but when he pleaseth he can temper them into so Sovereign a Remedy as shall give Sight to one that was born Blind Further God is right as to the Degree and Height of the Suffering When angry with his Children He stirs not up all his Wrath No No He Contends with them in measure He never maketh too great a Rod nor gives his Patient too large a Dose but weighs out every thing so that there shall not be one Drop of Gall too much in the Cup He is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able Full out as much but no more If need be you are in heaviness no more than need no longer than need And so God is right as to the Time when Trouble shall come and when it shall go when it shall begin and when cease He doth every thing in Season In the Fulness of Time He sent his Son into the World and so He sends Affliction Death comes to reap his Corn when it is White to the Harvest and He puts every one of his Children to Bed at their Hour When his Faithful Servants have Finished their Work then he takes them to their Rest and lays them at perfect Ease in the Bosom of Abraham or rather his own They shall not out-live it nor shall they dye before it is done I hope I have said enough to satisfie you about the Perfect Righteousness of God in his Judgments and that may well silence you There is another thing in the Text which this Holy Man saith He did know and that is the Faithfulness of God in afflicting him And if the other doth silence this may well quiet and delight the Afflicted Saint And truly we have all of us reason to be satisfied about this that though God often is an Afflicting God yet He always is a Faithful God and it is in his Faithfulness that he doth Order out Afflictions to them Now this will appear if you Consider these two things God is Faithful to his Covenant and to his Peoples Interest First In afflictive Providences God is Faithful to his own Covenant Instead of running Cross to it he acts in a Wise Pursuance of it He never runs Cross to it for while the Saints are here the Covenant doth not put any of them out of the reach of Afflictions Galat. 4.1 The Heir as long as he is a Child differs nothing from a Servant though he be Lord of all but may have as course Fare and as hard Usage so may one of those that are Heirs of God and Glory Indeed we are assured there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus And that Security is matter of great Joy but tho' by laying hold upon Christ and the
have for Objecting against that which is every way right Why should you go about to find a Fault where there is none especially when every one of you have above a thousand Secondly Quarrel your selves for former Quarrelings of God and unreasonable dislikes of his Dispensations thus it was with Holy Job tho' for a time he would maintain his own ways before God and thought he had enough to say Job 23.3 4. O that I knew where I might find him that I might come even to his Seat I would order my Cause before him and fill my Mouth with Arguments but he was of another mind when he was brought forth into a clearer light then he took God's part against himself and that in the same words which God had used with a very little Variation Job 42.3 Who is he that hideth Counsel without Knowledge therefore have I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not which was an humble acknowledgment both of his Ignorance and of his Folly in meddling with what was above him The like we find in Asaph he being in anguish of Spirit burdened with a continued Series of Affliction and heated with Temptations spake unadvisedly with his Lips he threw dirt in the Face of Religion and Godliness by saying He had cleansed his Heart in vain and washed his Hands in Innocency But when that Violent Paroxism was over and being at leisure from his Passion he came to make a due reflection upon what he had said he fell upon himself with a just and holy Indignation and of his own accord cryed out Psal 73.22 So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast before thee He did not only eat up his own words which he found exceeding bitter to him but by spitting in his own Face he gave Glory to God Thirdly Submit and yield to God for the future and do it cheerfully lye at his Foot put your selves and your all into his Hand and leave it to him to take his own way with you and to use his own Method Some of the Jewish Writers say that David did utter these Words in the Text when he was forced to leave his Palace and to flee before the Face of his unnatural and rebellious Son Absalom in danger of losing both his Kingdom and Life And if so then being so sweetly and fully satisfied about the Righteousness and Faithfulness of God in his dealings with him you may see how readily he resigns himself to the disposal of God 2 Sam. 15.25 26. The King said unto Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City if I shall find Favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his habitation But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him If my God have no Pleasure in me I will take Pleasure in nothing if he will lay me aside I will be content if he will cut me off I will lay my Head upon the Block God shall Order and I will accept His Will shall be the Ruling Will and mine the Complying Will. Let him as he pleaseth Carve out my Condition and I will take it as it comes If I must no longer wear a Crown then I will take up a Cross And the Church was much in the same frame when fallen and sitting in darkness Micah 7.9 I will bear the Indignation of the Lord take all patiently and accept the Punishment of mine Iniquity for I have sinned against him therefore though the Rod smart I will Kiss it Lastly Be sure to justifie God always give the Cause on his side and speak honourably of him and all that he doth God is always just and in every thing just in his Acts of Mercy and richest Grace Rom. 3.26 He is just when he is the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus Just in all the Afflictions of this Life and so he is in the Miseries of the Damned in the next Rom. 2.5 The very day of Wrath though dark and gloomy will carry along with it sufficient light to reveal and manifest the righteous Judgment of God therefore in the forenamed instance of Job we observed that after Elihu had performed his part and God had seconded him that good Man submitted and spake God's own Language thereby shewing his being Convinced that what he had said before was according to the dictates of his own foolish and corrupt Heart now he would speak as God speaks whom he knew to be Wisdom it self and Truth it self and Goodness it self It is not enough for us not to speak against God we must be speaking for him though he needs it not None shall ever have Cause to repent of Commending God because we can never rise too high in his Commendations we can never speak too much of him nor too well Our Tongues are never so much our Glory as when employed in shewing forth his Glory He doth deserve more than our dearest Love and our highest Praises The day will come in which the Vail shall be taken off from the Face of Providence and when we come to see things as indeed they are we shall be perfectly reconciled to them sinding them to have been at Peace with us and what we are now too apt to quarrel we shall then admire But I pass on to the Second Exhortation And I desire you to account it your Duty not only to be satisfied about God's dealings with you that all his Judgments are right and that there is his Truth and Faithfulness in those Afflictions with which he exerciseth you but also to see carefully to it that your Spirits and Carriages your Hearts and Affections be right too That was a severe Rebuke which God gave to Eliphaz and spake his just resentment and high displeasure Job 42.7 The Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite my Wrath is kindled against thee and thy two Friends for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath Know and Consider this it will be to you when under dark Dispensations both an Honour and Comfort that your Thoughts of God are right the Frame and Temper of your Hearts right and your Deportment and Behaviour right When all is as it should be abating for Humane Infirmities which you cannot avoid and which God will graciously bear with remembring your Frame and considering you are but Dust To this Purpose I shall give you the following Counsels desiring you to put them in Practice First Be sensible of that which God hath done to you He loves to be taken Notice of and would not have his People careless or stupid but hear the Rod and who hath appointed it And his Anger comes up into his Face when Men do not Observe his Works nor regard the Operation of his Hands Withall it is a sad Omen and certain Presage of some impending and approaching Judgment