But certeinlie, it is neither a witch, nor divell, but a glorious[a] God that maketh the thunder. I have read in the scriptures, that God[b] maketh the blustering tempests and whirlewinds: and I find that it is[c] the Lord that altogither dealeth with them, and that they[d] blowe according to his will. But let me see anie of them all[e] rebuke and still the sea in time of tempest, as Christ did; or raise the stormie wind, as [f]God did with his word; and I will beleeve in them. Hath anie witch or conjurer, or anie creature entred into the [g]treasures of the snowe; or seene the secret places of the haile, which GOD hath prepared against the daie of trouble, battell, and warre? I for my part also thinke with Jesus Sirach, that at Gods onelie commandement the snowe falleth; and that the wind bloweth according to his will, who onelie maketh all stormes to cease; and[h] who (if we keepe his ordinances) will send us raine in due season, and make the land to bring forth hir increase, and the trees of the field to give their fruit. ♦[a] Psal. 25.♦ ♦[b] Psal. 83.♦ ♦[c] Eccles. 43.♦ ♦[d] Luke. 8. Matth. 8.♦ ♦[e] Mark. 4. 41. Luke. 8. 14.♦ ♦[f] Psal. 170.♦ ♦[g] Job. 38, 22.♦ ♦Eccles. 43.♦ ♦[h] Leviti. 26. verse. 3, 4.♦ But little thinke our witchmongers, that the [i]Lord commandeth the clouds above, or openeth the doores of heaven, as _David_ affirmeth; or that the Lord goeth forth in the tempests and stormes, as the Prophet [k]_Nahum_ reporteth: but rather that witches and conjurers are then about their businesse. ♦[i] Psal. 78, 23.♦ ♦[k] Nahum. 1.♦ The _Martionists_ acknowledged one God the authour of good things, and another the ordeiner of evill: but these make the divell a whole god, to create things of nothing, to knowe mens cogitations, and to doo that which God never did; as, to transubstantiate men into beasts, &c. Which thing if divels could doo, yet followeth it not, that witches have such power. But if all the divels in hell were dead, and all the witches in _England_ burnt or hanged; I warrant you we should not faile to have raine, haile and tempests, as now we have: according to the appointment and will of God, and according to the constitution of the elements, and the course of the planets, wherein God hath set a perfect and perpetuall order.