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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.
Now may we not fear God will depart from a people that behave themselves so unkindly as we at this day? We slight his presence, abuse his kindness; can we think to be blest with his presence long? We read, Hos. 8.3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good. The Hebr. is only, [Greek or Hebrew] repulit à see bonum, i. e. [Greek or Hebrew], beneficium, or [Greek or Hebrew], Praeter quem non est bonum. So Rivet, Grotius, and others: ⟨p. 145⟩that is, Israel hath driven from it God the only good, hath made its kind Benefactor go away. Oh have we not done thus? have we not been driving God away from us; as weary of his Ordinances, tired with Gospel-proffers, nauseating Mercies, and despising Deliverances? How can we think God, can walk with us any longer, when we walk so frowardly and contrary to him? Amos 3.3. How can two walk together, unless they be agreed? thereby God shows them how impossible it was for him to continue in ways of mercy to them, since they refused to walk with him in ways of duty; which is the sweet harmony God expected from them: says the Lord, You would have me to walk with you, and bless you, yet ye depart from me, and blaspheme my Name. How can I longer walk with you? Thus the Lord threatens a people, Lev. 26.21. If ye walk contrary to me, I will walk contrary to you. v. 24. I will bring seven times more Plagues upon you, according to your sins. Oh how perversely have we walked! How contrary is Disobedience to Deliverance, Sinning to Salvation, Cursing to Blessing! and may not God justly leave us ⟨p. 146⟩to ruin, and suffer our destruction who deal thus unanswerably with him?
Now may we not fear God will depart from a people that behave themselves so unkindly as we at this day? We slight his presence, abuse his kindness; can we think to be blest with his presence long? We read, Hos. 8.3. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good. The Hebr. is only, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 repulit à se bonum, i. e. , beneficium, or , Praeter quem non est bonum. So Rivet, Grotius, and others: