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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.
Disown not the Charges that are against thee, without reason. Let us no longer sew Fig-leaves on our sins. The impartial Judge of Heaven and Earth knows our crimes. Let us therefore return and say, Father I have sinned. Thus did those, Lam. 5.16. Woe be to us, we have sinned. David yielded the case to Nathan, I am the man: mayest thou not justly say, I am the man that have been nothing the better for deliverance; I am the man ⟨p. 130⟩or woman have gone on in Pride, Sensuality, without repentance, reformation? Defend not thy sins by excuses, but own them; be convinced without further demur, and condemn thy self as a guilty malefactor. Then let us pour out our tears, and open the Flood-gates of Godly sorrow; and if we would escape, let us be like those, Ezek. 7.16. Who were like Doves in the Valleys, mourning every one for their own iniquity. Oh that our proud hearts might yield to this work! Our dry eyes be filled with tears. Let us fill Gods bottle with our tears! What is weeping good for, but to testify our sorrow for sin? it cannot recover a dying friend, it may a dying Nation: it cannot stop the course of death, it may the coming of judgments. Open then the windows of Heaven, and break up the deeps, and let us make us a hearty weeping, as may prevent the heavy judgments our great sins are calling for.
Disown not the Charges that are against thee, without reason. Let us no longer sew Fig-leaves on our sins. The impartial Judge of Heaven and Earth knows our crimes. Let us therefore return and say, Father I have sinned. Thus did those, Lam. 5.16. Wo be to us, we have sinned. David yeilded the case to Nathan, I am the man: maist thou not justly say, I am the man that have been nothing the better for deliverance; I am the man ⟨p. 130⟩or woman have gone on in Pride, Sensuality, without repentance, reformation? Defend not thy sins by excuses, but own them; be convinced without further demur, and condemn thy self as a guilty malefactor. Then let us pour out our tears, and open the Flood-gates of Godly sorrow; and if we would escape, let us be like those,