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down banks and Ramparts, Walls and Bridges, yea overwhelming Houfes and Towns,to the ruine of poor Families in divers places, and alfo how it drowns many Sheep and Oxen with fuch like helpless and profitable Creatures, as can make no refiftance against the furies thereof. Laftly, it occafions the Death of many Men alfo, for while the floods prevail, they befiege those whofe Habitations are more depreffed, whereby fome of them are cut off from all poffibility of fuccour, and reduced to the fad Choice either to drown or ftarve:And many poor Travellers, whofe urgent affairs make them bold to affay the untryed Floods are swallowed up in the Waves,and end their journeys and their Lives together. Nor is all the danger over when the waters ceafe, for after much Rain and great Inundations, corrupted Air and great Mortality frequently doth enfue, and those who escaped the waters may fall by this unfeen Dart.

II. Therefore having well weighed all these aggravating Circumftances, let us confider what Remedy there is in thisCafe. Certain it is, that no Humane Power can ftay the Clouds. It is God alone can make the Rain to cease, as he only makes it to begin, for he is the great Creator of this vaft unruly Element, and he is the Lord of it. In vain do we call upon the Clouds to drop no more, or upon the Waves to ftop their Course, they are deaf to us, but they know their Makers, and their Mafters Voice (y). The Father made the Red Sea divide it felf, and caufed Jordan to run back and review it's own Fountain: The Son walked upon the Waters,and made he Winds and the Sea obey him: The Spirit of God brought the rimitive Waters into their feveral eceptacles, and when in the general Deluge they had

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S.2. This Prayer bath three Parts

The Analysis of the Prayer for Fair-weather.

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