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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.
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 ⟨p. 98⟩may have greater influence upon you, I shall lay down before you in a few particulars the greatness of it.
But into what a large Field am I entring? 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; minde every particular duty, though I can name them but universally; let the love of God in delivering, constrain you: And that the deliverance ⟨p. 98⟩may have greater influence upon you, I shall lay down before you in a few particulars the greatness of it.
1. The greatness of our deliverance is manifest and apparent from the consideration of the Enemies from whose hands an Almighty power hath rescued us. The managers of the designs for our ruins, are the Race of murdering Cain, the bloody Off-spring of devouring Cannibals; whose monstrous cruelties are divulged in every corner of the world, recorded in innumerable Histories; experienced in many Nations, known in Germany, felt in Paris, found in Ireland; and we are woefully acquainted with them in England.
1. The greatness of our deliverance is manifest and apparent from the consideration of the Enemies from whose hands an Almighty power hath rescued us. The managers of the designs for our ruines, are the Race of murdering Cain, the bloudy Off-spring of devouring Cannibals; whose monstrous cruelties are divulg'd in every corner of the world, recorded in innumerable Histories; experienc'd in many Nations, known in Germany, felt in Paris, found in Ireland; and we are wofully acquainted with them in England.