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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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mark the reason and ground of all, is nothing else but Gods mercy towards us, and above all, here is seen the abundant goodness of the Lord, notwithstanding our unthankfulness and carelessness, we yet continue to be a nation, there is no other reason to be given of this, but Gods love will have it so, when as in other Countries, here one is banished from his house, another from his country, that we are here this day to call upon the Name of the Lord, this is evidence enough that it is the Lord that delivers England: and shall the Lord do this, and ⟨p. 117⟩shall not we acknowledge it, shall not we observe it and remember it for ever, shall not we score up the kindness of the Lord, and set up pillars of his preservation and records of his mercy to our souls for ever; and above all other deliverances, that in 88. was a great deliverance, but we specially record that upon the fifth of November: this we record unto all posterity; and let us but cast our thoughts upon the malice of our enemies, and then it cannot but be confessed that the Lord hath delivered us: it is the Lords own work; and this shall appear, if we compare the practise of the wicked, and the deliverance of the Lord together agreeably, three things in the former may be observed, three things in the latter may be considered, and doth show that God only delivered, if we look to the enemies ⟨p. 118⟩of Gods grace and Gospel, three things will make it appear, that none but the devil could devise that plot, and if on the other side, we consider the succour and deliverance the Lord did lend, it will appear that none but the Lord could deliver us and succour and relieve us. Let us consider three things in the Gunpowder plot. First, observe their policy; secondly, their malice; thirdly, their stoutness, whereby it will appear, that they intended the whole ruin, not only of us, but of the Gospel, they thought to have carried the matter so cunningly, that it should never have been spied, nay, so fiercely, that it should never have been recovered; first, for the former, behold in the forefront the depth of their policy the place, that is marvellous fit, the conveyance marvellous ⟨p. 119⟩easy the pretence marvellous unsuspected, for they have a seller, it is in the earth, and hard by the water that they may convey things thither: