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Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…
Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland, 1623London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1623
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Secondly, This may be a warning to Gods1 children, to take heed how they take liberty to sin upon assurance of Gods favour, and ⟨p. 40⟩presumption of his goodness and fatherly loving kindness. For though God do love us, yet he doteth not on us. gIf we carry our selves saucily or stubbornly towards him, he will not bear it; if we take bad courses, he will not endure it. He will not suffer us through his forbearance of us to be hardened in evil: but by some means or other he will be sure to bring us home again, if at least we belong to him, and to his election of love. And though he cast us not off utterly, though he damn us not eternally; yet he may so seem to forget us, so estrange himself from us, so withdraw and with-hold from us the light of his countenance, that the bright beams of his favour may never shine forth again on us, as formerly they have done, so long as we live, and so may we come to have not a purgatory, but a very hell in our souls while we live here; hgo drooping and dwindling, distressed, distracted and de•ected all our life long, and be in little better case for the time than the reprobate oft are, yea than the very devils and damned souls in hell themselves. Though we escape with our lives, yet the cure may be so costly, and the course of Physic and Surgery that God shall take with us, may be so harsh and unpleasant, may put us to those bitter pangs, and unsupportable pains, that it may make us curse the day that ever we did wittingly and willingly that that might provoke such a wrath, or require such a cure, and wish a thousand and a thousand times that we had been, not fast asleep in our beds, ⟨p. 41⟩but dead and buried in our graves when we did it.
Secondly, This may be a warning to Gods1 children, to take heed how they take libertie to sinne vpon assurance of Gods fauour, and ⟨p. 40⟩