FAMOUS PURITAN PREACHER Sermon on Weather Meteorology/Global Warming RARE 1695
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VERY SCARCE, ORIGINAL 1695 EDITION OF: "WINTER MEDITATIONS: OR, A SERMON CONCERNING FROST AND SNOW, AND WINDS, & C. AND THE WONDERS OF GOD THEREIN." This important 17th century treatise was written by John Shower and printed for John Lawrence, London. Author was a leading Puritan divine who published many esteemed sermons. In the present work, Rev. Shower cites God's influence on weather related phenomena and other earthly events. We could not locate another obtainable copy. [Wing S3695]. Along with nature's many blessings, Rev. Shower also calls attention to nature's harmful wrath: "And in such Winters, how many poor Families are reduc't to the utmost Extremity, and very many, doubtless starv'd to Death with Hunger and Cold? How easily can God impoverish, or destroy a City, Country, or Kingdom, by Frost and Snow? Or punish a People by Storms Hail, Rain, Thunder, Lightning?...He can make the Heavens over us be as Brass, and the Earth Iron. He can deny the former and later Rain in their Season, or send too much. And by these, and many other methods, turn a Fruitful Land into a Barren Desert, for the Inequities of them who dwell therein." John Shower (1657-1715) was a prominent English nonconformist minister and author of many influential sermons. The elder brother of Sir Bartholomew Shower, he was born at Exeter, and baptised in
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