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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.
This ineffectualness of judgments, hath often been evidenced in the devilish behaviour that hath appeared in many under them. How many in blasphemous enraged passions, have belched out most execrable Oaths and reproachful speeches against Heaven, and the instruments of Divine vengeance, Et quem oderunt perire cupiunt; wishing the destruction of the God that destroyed them? As the Cilicians made War against Mount A•tna, spitting out sulphureous flames upon them: with such madness do rebellious wretches contend with the Almighty, consuming them by the fire of deserved vengeance.
This ineffectualness of judgments, hath often been evidenc'd in the devilish behaviour that hath appeared in many under them. How many in blasphemous enraged passions, have belch'd out most execrable Oaths and reproachful speeches against Heaven, and the instruments of Divine vengeance, Et quem oderunt perire cupiunt; wishing the destruction of the God that destroyed them? As the Cilicians made War against Mount A•tna, spitting out sulphureous flames upon them: with such madness do rebellious wretches contend with the Almighty, consuming them by the fire of deserved vengeance.
How often do men bid defiance to God heaping up plagues upon them! and stopped in their sinful courses as Balaam by the Angel, still will spur on in despite of God himself.
How often do men bid defiance to God heaping up plagues upon them! and stopt in their sinful courses as Balaam by the Angel, still will spur on in despite of God himself.
Zeph. 3.5. Every morning be brings his judgments to light, but the wicked know no shame. Sins were continued under continual judgments; so