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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.
2. Hence see what need we have of great Repentance; an ordinary sorrow will not answer our extraordinary sins. Gravissima peccata gravissimis lamentis indigent. Greatest provocations call for greatest lamentations. Oh what tears and lamentations can be great enough for our horrid sins? What sighs can be deep enough for a Nation so deeply involved in sin? Should not our mourning be as in the mourning of Hadadrimmon, in the Valley of Megiddon, every family apart, every person apart? Should not Nineveh ⟨p. 128⟩be our president? Should not our England become a Bokim, and our Island be overflown with tears? Oh what floods of tears is there need of, to wash away our abominable pollutions! Oh what wailing and weeping should be in a Nation living and wallowing in such iniquities? Aut poenitendum vel pereundum. Repentance only can prevent our ruin; Repentance only can make justice to retreat; Repentance only can deliver us now delivered: But where shall we find it? Where are the weeping eyes, the mourning hearts? Oh that repentance might appear among us, lest judgments appear against us! Oh that we could lay our selves down at the feet of mercy by humiliation, that we may not be laid down in a dreadful desolation, by the hands of justice! Oh that a hearty repentance might prevent our hastening ruin! Oh that we might lie in breathing sweats of Godly sorrow, that we may not lie sweltering in our blood! Our sins reach up to Heaven, let our sorrow reach to heart. Oh that each part of unfeigned repentance might be really acted by us!
2. Hence see what need we have of great Repentance; an ordinary sorrow will not answer our extraordinary sins. Gravissima peccata gravissimis lamentis indigent. Greatest provocations call for greatest lamentations. Oh what tears and lamentations can be great enough for our horrid sins? What sighs can be deep enough for a Nation so deeply involved in sin? Should not our mourning be as in the mourning of Hadadrimmon, in the Valley of Megiddon, every family apart, every person apart? Should not Ninive ⟨p. 128⟩be our president? Should not our England become a Bokim, and our Island be overflown with tears? Oh what floods of tears is there need of, to wash away our abominable pollutions! Oh what wailing and weeping should be in a Nation living and wallowing in such iniquities? Aut poenitendum vel pereundum. Repentance onely can prevent our ruine; Repentance onely can make justice to retreat; Repentance onely can deliver us now delivered: But where shall we finde it? Where are the weeping eyes, the mourning hearts? Oh that repentance might appear among us, lest judgments appear against us! Oh that we could lay our selves down at the feet of mercy by humiliation, that we may not be laid down in a dreadful desolation, by the hands of justice! Oh that a hearty repentance might prevent our hastening ruine! Oh that we might lie in breathing sweats of Godly sorrow, that we may not lie sweltring in our blood! Our sins reach up to Heaven, let our sorrow reach to heart. Oh that each part of unfeigned repentance might be really acted by us!