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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
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.
Should we again return to our Fleshpleasing security in sin, the Fountain and Spring of our greatest misery? What but our belluine and besotting stupidity involved us in our direful dangers? and shall we return to our former posture, not regarding the rousing alarums the late discoveries of misery have sounded to us, ⟨p. 93⟩nor minding the awakening calls to prepare for Judgments, or turn from the Impieties that deserve them? Would not this be an unpardonable crime, and a means most infallibly to ruin us? Should we again dishonour this delivering God, by profane, licentious courses? filling our Land with the hateful noise of our crying Iniquities, when God hath filled it with the blessed sounds of unspeakable Mercies? What an unworthy, ungrateful, unanswerable carriage would this be deemed by all that bear the title of Christians?
Should we again return to our Fleshpleasing security in sin, the Fountain and Spring of our greatest misery? What but our belluine and besotting stupidity involved us in our direful dangers? and shall we return to our former posture, not regarding the rousing alarums the late discoveries of misery have sounded to us, ⟨p. 93⟩nor minding the awakening calls to prepare for Judgments, or turn from the Impieties that deserve them? Would not this be an unpardonable crime, and a means most infallibly to ruine us? Should we again dishonour this delivering God, by profane, licentious courses? filling our Land with the hateful noise of our crying Iniquities, when God hath fill'd it with the blessed sounds of unspeakable Mercies? What an unworthy, ungrateful, unanswerable carriage would this be deem'd by all that bear the title of Christians?
Would Heathens offer to do such things to their feigned Gods, or offer such affronts unto them, could they but do such favours for them? And shall we, to affront the Majesty of Heaven, belch out abominable Oaths, and account them as pleasing Ornaments of Language? Shall we show our despite to our God, by blasphemous Expressions against inviolable Truths concerning the nature and being of God? Shall we, to express how little we value his kindness, provoke the eyes of his Glory by Noon-day Drunkenness, Rioting, and Debaucheries? Shall we witness a cursed contemning of him by