Consequences of the Deluge.

out all scar of God or fence of GoodnessFor God doth not stand by as an idle a 11. unconcerned Spectator, and suffer thingsrun at random ; but his Providence mEtimes interposes, and stops the usual courand current of Natural Causes : Nay, Ilieve and affirm, That in all great and not 3 'blc Revolutions and Mutations he hath d 1greatest hand and interest ; himself orderlyand governing them by his special Sup 3sintendence and influence. So thoughInstruments and Materials wherewith this d c 'vastation in Jamaica was made, as a subt e/raneous fire and inflamable materials,before in the Earth, yet that they should 3this time break forth and work, when tlidwas such an inundation of wickedness th & c jand particularly and especially at Port-liof \this we may confidently fay , was the fins??of God, and effected perchance by the 1111nistery of an Angel.

Moreover, This Relator’s being called \fide, and stopped from going to a places 1 !

- thcr if he had then gone he had certain)perished, we have good reason to thinks,effect of Providence, designing therebypreservation; as Gregory the Biihop of .$tioch his going out of the House whereinabode immediately before it sell down,,rationally thought to be in respect os lu^