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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 what less, yea how infinitely more is your abusing the Mercies of God, to the disadvantage of his Glory, and dishonour of his Name? Should a• neighbourly Physician freely endeavour the relief of a helpless Beggar, and after his cost and care, when this man is restored, he should make it his work to study the death of this worthy Friend, how intolerable Ingratitude would this be accounted? What else is our sinning against God, on his sparing of us? What is it but the destroying the Honour of him, who saved us from destruction? ⟨p. 43⟩Deut. 32.6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, ye foolish people and unwise? When ungrateful Brutus was among those that came to destroy Caesar, he pathetically cryed out, Etiam tu Brute! What, thou my Son Brutus! Wilt thou stab me? May not God cry out upon us, What ye, oh People of England, will ye still be enemies? You whom I have so delivered? You whom I have so often preserved, shall I meet with these dealings from you? Of all people you are obliged to love and serve me, and will you improve all my Mercies against me?
Now what less, yea how infinitely more is your abusing the Mercies of God, to the disadvantage of his Glory, and dishonour of his Name? Should a• neighbourly Physician freely endeavour the relief of a helpless Beggar, and after his cost and care, when this man is restor'd, he should make it his work to study the death of this worthy Friend, how intolerable Ingratitude would this be accounted? What else is our sinning against God, on his sparing of us? What is it but the destroying the Honour of him, who saved us from destruction? ⟨p. 43⟩Deut. 32.6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, ye foolish people and unwise? When ungrateful Brutus was among those that came to destroy Caesar, he pathetically cryed out, Etiam tu Brute! What, thou my Son Brutus! Wilt thou stab me? May not God cry out upon us, What ye, oh People of England, will ye still be enemies? You whom I have so deliver'd? You whom I have so often preserved, shall I meet with these dealings from you? Of all people you are obliged to love and serve me, and will you improve all my Mercies against me?