year she hath spoken by his dreadful Rod, and that very terribly. The Sword, the Plague, the Fire, the decay of trade and other Judgements, are the loud voice of an angry God. Those afflictions on our Fa∣milies, Relations, Estates, Persons, are in order to awakening us out of sleep, and so for our profit. When Manassch was a∣mong the thorns, & bound with fetters, & carried into Babylon, he be sought the Lord and humbled himself greatly, 2 Chron. 33. 11, 12, 13. After Ephraim was chastised, he awaked, turned and repented, for the bonds and cords of affliction do open the car to instruction; then he sheweth them their work, and their transgression, and commandeth that they turn from ini∣quity, Jab 6. 9, 10. Jer. 13, 18, 19. Now to have a deaf ear to the rod and word, to be hardned and secure, and go on in sin under awaking and amazing providen∣ces, is a dreadful judgement, & that which ripens men for ruine, 2 Chron. 28. 22. This is that King Ahaz, who in the time of his distress did trespass yet more against the Lord, Jer. 5. 3.3. Your awakening Convictions will have an end too. Those secret and power∣ful 0