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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.
Oh the price we should set, the value we should have of our Ordinances! What ⟨p. 97⟩are these but the Wells of Salvation, the Conduits of Grace, the Ensigns of eternal Glory, the Food of immortal Souls, the Pledges and Models of eternal Loves, the blessed Mounts of Glory; in which are the clearest Resemblances of Heaven, the sweetest Refreshments on Earth, the most lively stamps of Divine Majesty, and the most blessed Appearances and comfortable Visits of Christ? And can we contemn such Enjoyments, without abominable Ingratitude? Are they given to us by a new deliverance? let us show our esteem by a new improvement. Never be so backward to attend them, so careless under them, so unanswerable to them hereafter. Let God see that his kindness is not lost, his cost is not in vain, but that you endeavour a faithful return to what he doth for you.
Oh the price we should set, the value we should have of our Ordinances! What ⟨p. 97⟩are these but the Wells of Salvation, the Conduits of Grace, the Ensignes of eternal Glory, the Food of immortal Souls, the Pledges and Models of eternal Loves, the blessed Mounts of Glory; in which are the clearest Resemblances of Heaven, the sweetest Refreshments on Earth, the most lively stamps of Divine Majesty, and the most blessed Appearances and comfortable Visits of Christ? And can we contemn such Enjoyments, without abominable Ingratitude? Are they given to us by a new deliverance? let us shew our esteem by a new improvement. Never be so backward to attend them, so careless under them, so unanswerable to them hereafter. Let God see that his kindness is not lost, his cost is not in vain, but that you endeavour a faithful return to what he doth for you.
But into what a large Field am I entering? Let all sins be reformed, let all holiness be embraced; be universal in reformation of known sins, though I cannot be particular in the enumeration of them; mind every particular duty, though I can name them but universally; let the love of God in delivering, constrain you: And that the deliverance