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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 helpless had we been in such a dismal Surprisal? the mighty men would not have found their hands, the valiant would have lost their courageous hearts, and we should have been but Magor missabibs, terror round about.
How helpless had we been in such a dismal Surprizal? the mighty men would not have found their hands, the valiant would have lost their couragious hearts, and we should have been but Magor missabibs, terrour round about.
But the misery of our condition had lain in our unreadiness to have encountered the King of Terrors, to have followed that amazing Messenger to the dreadful Tribunal of the Eternal God. ⟨p. 107⟩How unfit had we been to die at a moments warning? How miserable had thousands been to whom all space of repenting had been ended, whose present misery had been the beginning of eternal torments, whose unprepared Souls had been sent to the place prepared for the devil and his angels? Oh then that now we could lay to heart these Riches of Grace that continues a preparing space: Patientia poenitentiae expectatrix: His Patience expects Repentance. Let not our prolonged days be spent in provoking him any longer; let us not now be treasuring up wrath to the day of wrath.
But the misery of our condition had lain in our unreadiness to have encoun••ed the King of Terrours, to have follow'd that amazing Messenger to the dreadful Tribunal of the Eternal God. ⟨p. 107⟩How unfit had we been to die at a moments warning? How miserable had thousands been to whom all space of repenting had been ended, whose present misery had been the beginning of eternal torments, whose unprepared Souls had been sent to the place prepar'd for the devil and his angels? Oh then that now we could lay to heart these Riches of Grace that continues a preparing space: Patientia poenitentiae expectatrix: His Patience expects Repentance. Let not our prolonged days be spent in provoking him any longer; let us not now be treasuring up wrath to the day of wrath.