A41644:74
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. Such sinning is so abominable, because 'tis a justification of all our former sins. This is in effect to say, We have done well enough in sinning; God is not angry with us, therefore we will still go on in our former courses, and follow our old wickednesses. How provoking must this needs be to God? when instead of a humiliation for sins, he sees a justification of them: instead of a contrite lamentation for our evils, he finds an audacious approbation of them. How can a holy God bear this at our hands? We cannot justify the best of our actions before the Lord, how abominable then to justify those that are apparent evils? It was very displeasing to God for Jonah to say, I do well to be angry. And shall we ⟨p. 38⟩say, We did well to be proud and profane, to be drunkards and swearers? and what else is our persistence in sin, but a testimony of our allowance of it?
2. Such sinning is so abominable, because 'tis a justification of all our former sins. This is in effect to say, We have done well enough in sinning; God is not angry with us, therefore we will still go on in our former courses, and follow our old wickednesses. How provoking must this needs be to God? when instead of a humiliation for sins, he sees a justification of them: instead of a contrite lamentation for our evils, he finds an audacious approbation of them. How can a holy God bear this at our hands? We cannot justifie the best of our actions before the Lord, how abominable then to justifie those that are apparent evils? It was very displeasing to God for Ionah to say, I do well to be angry. And shall we ⟨p. 38⟩say, We did well to be proud and profane, to be drunkards and swearers? and what else is our persistence in sin, but a testimony of our allowance of it?
3. Such sinning, implies a daring provocation of God to destroy us. To despise God sparing and delivering, is to dare him to smite and destroy us. Not to care for deliverance, is as much as to say, we do not fear destruction,