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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.
Hence the people of Israel were admonished to be frequent in reviewing their sad condition in Egyptian bondage, with the blessed escape given them from it. Deut. 26.1, 2.5, &c. When thou art come into the land—thou shalt speak and say, A Syrian ready to p•rish was my father, and ⟨p. 119⟩he went down into Egypt, and became there a great nation,—and the Egyptians entreated us ill,—and the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, &c. Thus they were to make a frequent commemoration of their miserable state, and merciful escape. In like manner it were necessary for us to look back on what we lately were, and say, A little while since I was at the gates of Death, by the subtle contrivances of Popish Enemies; a little time past I had near been devoured by the jaws of those preying Lions: Some few months are past since the Nation was in danger of being involved in incomparable Miseries; it hath almost been made a Stage for the acting a bloody Tragedy, an Altar on which had been sacrificed innumerable precious Lives, a Prey to Roman Fury; and now behold (blessed be the Lord) the Scene is changed, the Curtains of Secrecy that covered the nasty vault of Popish Conspirators, is happily drawn aside; the God of our lives, by his over-awing Majesty, hath influenced the hearts of Enemies to detect the Snare they once did endeavour to lay. Should we not then argue, […] ⟨image 75⟩[…] ⟨image 75⟩⟨p. 120⟩Should I that was so lately in such danger of losing my precious life, now squander it away as a contemptible thing? Should I thus lately experiencing mercy from God, manifest my self by wicked courses to be a rebellious Enemy to him? Should not the thoughts of the death, danger, and miserable calamity God hath brought me from, bring me unfeignedly to love him, and constantly to yield obedience to him?
Hence the people of Israel were admonished to be frequent in reviewing their sad condition in Egyptian bondage, with the blessed escape given them from it.