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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.
How might I make this appear from the wonderful height of Power they were by all their endeavours arrived at: From the greatness of the danger, as most wickedly ⟨p. 102⟩kept secret by means of inviolable Obligations and Oaths, which laid those that were conscious to it, under the greatest incapacity of revealing of it: From the familiar Converse our fatal Enemies had among us: From the abominable Engagings of rotten Members to destroy the body they belonged to, and cut off the Head that was over them: From Assistances foreign Enemies provided and promised against us! But what hath been spoken, sufficiently speaks the greatness of our Deliverance, with respect to the persons contriving our Destruction.
How might I make this appear from the wonderful height of Power they were by all their endeavours arrived at: From the greatness of the danger, as most wickedly ⟨p. 102⟩kept secret by means of inviolable Obligations and Oaths, which laid those that were conscious to it, under the greatest incapacity of revealing of it: From the familiar Converse our fatal Enemies had among us: From the abominable Engagings of rotten Members to destroy the body they belong'd to, and cut off the Head that was over them: From Assistances forreign Enemies provided and promised against us! But what hath been spoken, sufficiently speaks the greatn•ss of our Deliverance, with respect to the persons contriving our Destruction.
2. It appears from the consideration of that miserable Destruction we were appointed unto, all these subtle heads and bloody hands are not at work to accomplish a petty Destruction. Their Throats, enlarged as Hell, would never be satisfied with Personal Revenge; no less than a Nation, yea, Nations of Protestants, can make up a single Meal for these savage Blood-hounds. These tyrannical Nero's are for the cutting off the Necks of all Christians at a blow. No less Bonfire would serve their turns, than the horrid Conflagration of a whole Nation. A Diocletian Persecution was nothing