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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.
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.
1God is all in all to them. He that said, The wolfe shall dwell with the lambe, and the leopard shall lie downe with the kid: and the calfe 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 aspe, and the weined child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den, hath wrought this concord betwixt them and the adversaries of their religion.
- 1Isa. 11. 6. &c.
1The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water: he turneth it whether soever he will. To his Churches therefore hath the Lord turned the heart of that King for their good.
What the inward affection of the King to those of the reformed religion is, is a secret. Whether the peace that those Churches enjoy be occasioned by reason of that supreme power which now he hath obtained over them, or by reason of his embroilments at home, and undertakings abroad, little skilleth for the matter in hand. Sure it is that the Lord hath ordered all things that have fallen out in France for the good and peace of his Churches there.