A01981:992
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.
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.
I answer, that God may take away in a common judgement many righteous ones, the more to aggravate the judgement, and yet therein show mercy to those righteous ones, by translating them to eternal bliss, and reserve wicked ones, to bring them by that judgement executed on others, to repentance, or else to make them the more inexcusable. The day of through cleansing the Lords floor is not till the day of judgement. aThe harvest is the end of the world. Then shall the Son of man send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity: and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. Yet least the stanch of sin even in this Land of the living should be too great, as in former ages, so now […] ⟨p. 130⟩science void of offence toward God and toward men.
I answer, that God may take away in a common judgement many righteous ones, the more to aggravate the judgement, and yet therein shew mercy to those righteous ones, by translating them to eternall blisse, and reserve wicked ones, to bring them by that judgement executed on others, to repentance, or els to make them the more inexcusable. The day of thorow cleansing the Lords floore is not till the day of judgement. aThe harvest is the end of the world. Then shall the Sonne of man send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdome all things that offend, and them which do iniquity: and shall cast them into a fornace of fire. Yet least the stanch of sin even in this Land of the living should be too great, as in former ages, so now 〈…〉 ⟨p. 130⟩science void of offence toward God and toward men.