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The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Section 123: §. 123. Of the present liberty of the reformed Churches in France.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This is the Lords doing. It is marvellous in our eyes.
They had no Moses, no Joshua to work for them.
They had no Moses, no Ioshua to worke for them.
As they had no power within to defend them from the might and malice of their enemy, so they could expect no aid from abroad to encourage them to stand out against their enemies. All the aid that from abroad was afforded unto them, proved altogether in vain.
As they had no power within to defend them from the might and malice of their enemie, so they could expect no aid from abroad to encourage them to stand out against their enemies. All the aid that from abroad was afforded unto them, proved altogether in vaine.
1God is all in all to them. He that said, The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: and the calf and the lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them: and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den, hath wrought this concord betwixt them and the adversaries of their religion.