Gods justice visibly seen in the present sorrows of all sorts.
In the second place, let us cast our eyes abroad and behold the direfull signs and tokens, of Gods severe Justice executed at this present in the world. How lamentably doe we see before our eyes the daily and continued effects of that first wrath upon mankind, in so many sorrows of all sorts for the first transgression.
Let us consider of the great constant reproach and misery over all the Nations of the World, by reason of Gods righteous Sentence in the division of so many Tongues and Languages.
The horrible desolations of late years.
O come and see (saith David) what Desolations (Psal. 46.) the Lord hath wrought in the Earth? How many hundred thousands of men, women and children have of late years been swept away in the world, by wars, famines and pestilences?
And since we are commanded to weep with them that weep; O that our heads were fountains, and our eyes rivers of waters, that wee might weep with Germany, weep with Ireland, yea, weep day and night with England and Scotland (to speake nothing of other remote Nations) in laying againe and again to heart the stroakes of Gods most righteous judgements, in their most fearfull slaughters and desolations.
The wonderfull spirituall judgements upon the Nations.
The direfull judgement upon the Jewes.
The effects and marks of these most dreadfull blowes, every eye is forced to see but yet there are some stroakes, more fearfull and yet not easily perceived; such are the righteous judgements of God, giving up the Nations of the world to so many horrible and blasphemous worships, idolatries and superstitions. To speak nothing of whole Nations and Kingdomes, that know not at all the true and living God, how cold and hard is that stone that lyes upon the mouth of that wonderfull grave of unbeliefe, wherein the Nation of (Gods choice and love) the Jewes lye buried and o'rewhelmed to this day?
The direfull judgement of Mahumatanism, and Antichristianisme.