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Show \ I f ( lg2 ) ttettiblt '<ll:!Jfttg£t llp tf)e Red-Sea. . Being fomething further, co1zcerning the_ Judgments of God on the Perfecutors of hu People, m New-England, from Couon Mather? s Hiflory. That c. M. hath confefs'd to a dreadful Scene of 1 udgmenrs and Calamities that have come upon them, and followed them, fince th~y put our friends co Death, is abundantly mamfefied., nm only by rhe former~ ou~ o~ his B~ok of Wicches but more efpec1ally tn his late Hlll:ory; and tho', he won't feem to confefs, ,rh~t they have come upon them for that ( tho , 1f they oid, perhaps they might be re~oved the f~onc:r> bur reckons up many other thmgs, as thcu Sms and Tranfgreffions againft G?~' and on_e another, their Degeneracy, Back!hdmg, &c. m many paniculars, that he a~gns a~ the. Caufcs of ir , but omits that of rheir Pedecuuon among th~ reft · yc:r he confeffes, that there rna~ be other fe~ret and unfeen Caufes of ir. Saymg, Book v. p. 88. c. 2. 'Tis poffible. that the Lord ' may conrend wilh us, partly on the ac.count · ' of fecrer unobferved Sins-in which refpeet a ' deep and mofi feri~us Enqui1 y inro the Caufes ' of this Comroverhe ought ro be arrended. And p. 86. c .. 2. ' It is very certain, rhar the ' Comroverfie which rhe God of Heaven had ' (and fiill hath) wirh Nm;. Engltmcl, ~as a _mar' ter about which many did nor enquue wtfely. And p. 99· c. i. Advifes on ' ch~ mofi heavy ' judgmenrs of Heaven, under whtch the Coun .. ' trY hath been welrring and wafting for many ' lauer Years, to fufpeB:, left in [he Hearts and ' Lives of u~ in particular, rhere may be found ' fome of thofe accurfed Things which_ have ' brouglu upon the Land fuch a long vanety of · 'for ~ ( ~s~ ) " ~ore Calamities : And makes i'c a dteadfui ~hmg, Book VI. .P· 26. to ~ifapply the Judg~ enrs of, God, faymg, c. I. There is one rhing . 1t1 the Judgmenrs of God, whereof we fhould ,' al~a~s _be afraid1 that is, left we do make an , lnJU~tctou_s Inrerpre~atio~ of . thetn : It is a Cauuon gtVen to us,m P[al.36.6. Thy Judgmenti ' are a great deep, 0 Lord: And we fhould be ·. , .. ' very cautious, left we drown our felves in fuch ]Ubtt-. ' a Deep, when \\·ego ro fathom ir. The Judg- hl~nt~ ' ments ~f God are thofe things, whereof ;cis not tn. : faid~ W~ofo ir 'JVife, will obferve tbefe things, : Bur bt lllf~ .. then we ~uft be careful to proceed wifely in applp b ' our obfervmg of them : 'Tis a danP-"erous thing ' for us to indulge our own FancY, and much ' more for us ro Indulge our own Pafiion in ma-t king o~ Glolfes upon rhe Judgmenrs ot· God· ' God wtlJ nor hold rhe Man Guil~lefs who fhall . ' fo t~~e his Name ~n vain. All which is granred; yec wh~ther h~. h1~1felf doth nor Indu[ge his fancy, m applymg u ro the Breach of the Sabbath, as he calls ir, p. 3 2.. c. 2. faying, ' .That : the_ dreadful ~rorms of Thunder and Lightning ~Ottt.' which have killed many a~norig us, frpm Year paten , ro Year, as ~od overthrew Sorlom and Gomor- to Sodom rah ; they have mofily happened . on or near : the Lord's~I?ay, as an lntimarion,. cllac Breaches , of the Lord. ~-Day have procured the Firing of , che great At ullery of Heaven upon us: How-lL.fttft' 4 ever, our Land fees little Reft, through the m.ett , Judgmenrs of God up?n us, for rhe VioJariom ftotti , of the Sacred Rell, W~Jch he has appointed tor ]uil ·4 . us. B.ur I .. :vould fam know where God has llleft~ . fo appomcea lC !or a Reft or &abb.ath, fo a~ ro do & no Work upon n, as ~he Jeu;s was, if he means !oi elfe ~~w a Sabbarh? Nor but chat we keep lt as Relrgwufly as any. Bm may it l10t more u u jLJ!l~r |