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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.
Inferences from the third Proposition concerning the heinousness of sin after deliverance.
Inferences from the third Proposition concerning the hainousness of sin after deliverance.
1. Is sinning after deliverance such heinous sinning? Behold then what crying sins are to be seen amongst us! Have we not sins of the greatest magnitude, who have mercies of the highest nature? Are not our sins worse than Sodoms, when our mercies are abundantly more than that enjoyed? Sins in England, are greater than sins in other Nations, that have not partaken of such signal favours as we. We wonder God bears with Antichristian Rome, with foreign Idolaters; Alas, their ⟨p. 127⟩sins are not of that nature that ours are. Our sins it may be are minoris infamiae, of lesser infamy, but majoris reatus, of greater guilt than theirs. Our sins are double; and the more our mercies increase, the more abundant aggravations belong to our sins. Are we not sinners above all, that have favours beyond any? Our sins that are small in abstracto, considered abstractly, are great in concreto, considering the circumstances of them. If small sins will not startle us, here are great sins then to amaze us. Oh let our sins that we have committed be more before us, that so the sense of their greatness may prevent our proceeding in them!
1. Is sinning after deliverance such hainous sinning? Behold then what crying sins are to be seen amongst us! Have we not sins of the greatest magnitude, who have mercies of the highest nature? Are not our sins worse than Sodoms, when our mercies are abundantly more than that enjoyed? Sins in England, are greater than sins in other Nations, that have not partaken of such signal favours as we. We wonder God bears with Antichristian Rome, with forreign Idolaters; Alas, their ⟨p. 127⟩sins are not of that nature that ours are. Our sins it may be are minoris infamiae, of lesser infamy, but majoris reatus, of greater guilt than theirs. Our sins are double; and the more our mercies increase, the more abundant aggravations belong to our sins. Are we not sinners above all, that have favours beyond any? Our sins that are small in abstracto, considered abstractly, are great in concreto, considering the circumstances of them. If small sins will not startle us, here are great sins then to amaze us. Oh let our sins that we have committed be more before us, that so the sense of their greatness may prevent our proceeding in them!