God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances

May destruction come after deliverance? Then hence we may learn, that present impunity can be no evidence of our future safety. Mercies are not so inseparably entailed upon us, that justice cannot deprive us of them. Present prosperity may have a mournful ending in dismal ⟨p. 134⟩adversity. National, as personal salvation from present dangers, may end in destruction. The wings of our feathery confidence had need be clipped, when we fondly presume the Almighty to be ever bound to deliver such a people as we, because he hath once more graciously done it. 2 Pet. 2.9. God reserves the unjust to judgment. The bird that escapes the fowlers net for once, may be afterwards caught: we that are wonderfully preserved from the snares of hellish Plotters, may at last be made a prey, if we grow no more watchful. Our cloudy Heavens threaten new storms. The world is very full of great and unexpected mutations: The turnings of the wheels of Providence are very swift and various. We may now as suddenly be destroyed, as we have often been delivered. Jud. 5. After delivered, God destroyed those that believed not. The ship that evades the dangers of the Sea more than once, may be swallowed up in its Sands, or shattered by its Rocks at last.

May destruction come after deliverance? Then hence we may learn, that present impunity can be no evidence of our future safety. Mercies are not so inseparably entail'd upon us, that justice cannot deprive us of them. Present prosperity may have a mournful ending in dismal ⟨p. 134⟩adversity. National, as personal salvation from present dangers, may end in destruction. The wings of our feathery confidence had need be clipt, when we fondly presume the Almighty to be ever bound to deliver such a people as we, because he hath once more graciously done it. 2 Pet. 2.9. God reserves the unjust to judgment. The bird that escapes the fowlers net for once, may be afterwards caught: we that are wonderfully preserved from the snares of hellish Plotters, may at last be made a prey, if we grow no more watchful. Our cloudy Heavens threaten new storms. The world is very full of great and unexpected mutations: The turnings of the wheels of Providence are very swift and various. We may now as suddenly be destroy'd, as we have often been delivered. Iud. 5. After delivered, God destroyed those that believed not. The ship that evades the dangers of the Sea more than once, may be swallowed up in its Sands, or shattered by its Rocks at last.