The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 20.

Moreouer, the Lord our God, in the last booke of Moises, both to terrifie the rage of Tyrants, & comfort in calamities as ma∣ny as put their confidence in him, vttereth this fearefull menace following, against all the wilful contemners of his power & glo∣rie, saying: * If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine aduersa∣ries, and will reward them that hate me: I will make my arrowes drunke with blood, and my sword shall eate flesh, for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I be∣gin to take vengeance on the enemy.

And, to make yet a little more manifest the might of our God, and his preuailing power against the disturbers of his peoples

peace, the Prophet Dauid, (after his victo∣ries obtained, in foure great battailes which hee had with the Philistians) declareth the same most pithilie in the second booke of Samuell, by the description of a tempest, saying; In my * trouble did I cal vpon the Lord, and cry to my God, and hee heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my cry did enter into his eares.

Then the earth trembled & quaked, the foundations of the heauens mooued and shooke, because hee was angry: Smoake went out of his nostrils, & consuming fire out of his mouth, coales vvere kindled therat. He bowed the heauens also, & came downe, and darknesse was vnder his feete: He rode vpon the Cherub and did flie, and he was seene vppon the wings of the wind. He made darknes a Tabernacle rounde a∣bout him, with waters gathered together in thicke clowdes.

At the brightnesse of his presence, the coales of fire were kindled: the Lord thun∣dred from heauen, & the most High gaue his voyce: hee shot arrowes and scattered them, to wit, he sent lightning & destroyed them. The chanels also of the Sea appea∣red, and the foundations of the world were

discouered, by reason of the rebuking of the Lord, & thorow the blast of the breath of his nostrils. &c.

Notes

• Deu. 32, 41. 42.
• 2, Sam, 2••.
• 2. Sam. 22. 7.
• verse, 8, 9. 10, 11. &c.