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God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances
God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances wherein is showed, that our deliverances, not answered with reformation, will be followed with sorest destruction / by Thomas Gouge.God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances wherein is shewed, that our deliverances, not answered with reformation, will be followed with sorest destruction / by Thomas Gouge.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Preface: A PREFACE, Pressing to the great Duty of Thankfulness for Mercies.
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.
Oh, what expectations hath God to see a repenting, reforming, holy, obedient carriage, upon our receipts of such wonderful favours from him! He looks that we will appear another manner of People than we have been, after these eminent, frequent, seasonable, and Miraculous appearances for us. Oh therefore, since the Lord hath not forsaken us a sinful People, but ⟨image 4⟩stood by us, and redeemed us, when appointed to Death, Let us join our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten, Jerem. 50.5. Let us offer up our selves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest Affections. Let us not occasion the cessation of Heavenly Kindnesses, by a wicked regardlessness of them. Let it be our employment, to applaud and improve the Infinite Love of God in all his Mercies.
Oh, what expectations hath God to see a repenting, reforming, holy, obedient carriage, upon our receipts of such wonderful favours from him! He looks that we will appear another manner of People than we have been, after these eminent, frequent, seasonable, and Miraculous appearances for us. Oh therefore, since the Lord hath not forsaken us a sinful People, but ⟨image 4⟩stood by us, and redeemed us, when appointed to Death, Let us joyn our selves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall never be forgotten, Ierem. 50.5. Let us offer up our selves to the Lord as a whole-burnt-offering, in the ascending flames of purest Affections. Let us not occasion the cessation of Heavenly Kindnesses, by a wicked regardlesness of them. Let it be our employment, to applaud and improve the Infinite Love of God in all his Mercies.
Come, let us view the sudden and sweet Dispensations of God's heavenly and holy Providence, and fix our thoughts on his surprising Benefits, till our hearts are enamoured with the Author of them, and transformed into the likeness of that loving God that gives them: let us trace him in his ways of Mercy, till we are sweetly brought into the ways of Duty: Let our Souls be drawn up to the Centre of Heaven,