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Dear Brethren,

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HE late Terrible Storm of Wind hath made fuch a deep Impreffion upon me, that as I cannot put it out of my Mind; fo it seems to call upon me to defire others to keep in mind fuch a Dreadful Inftance, as I ac

count it, of the Divine.

Displeasure.

It was certainly the Voice of God; and therefore it concerns us highly to hearken to it, and confider what it fpake to us from God. For which Reason I

have waved fuch Exhortations to you as I have been wont to fend before my Vifitations; and fhall in This befeech you, and defire you to befeech others, to look upon this Tempeft as a Loud Call to a speedy Repentance. Which eve

ry

ry one of us ought to Praetife our felves, and Preach to our People, with great Earneftness, and preffing Perfuafions; left after fo much Damage as we have

fuffered by this Stormy

Wind, in the shattering our Churches and Houses, destroying our Shipping, and fo many Seamen and others, a worse thing should

come unto us.

I am the more excited to this, by the Remembrance of what I long ago read, when I was a Mem

ber of the University, in a Learned and Holy Divine of our Church, the Famous Dr. Jackson. A little Volume of whofe Sermons, which I ftill have by me, I

met withal, Printed at Oxford in the Year 1637, (entituled, Signs of the Times, or God's Forewarn ings) Preached partly before His Majefty, and part ly at Newcastle upon Tine; and may now be found in the Second Volume of his Works, p. 351.

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