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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.
Many interpret your goodness, the goodness bestowed on you, or your mercies. So the sense is, My goodness that I bestow upon you, is but like a morning cloud, that is dissipated and scattered, and doth no good to you, you are not the better for it. And as the early dew it passeth away, i. e. Gratiam & misericordiam meam malitia vestra absorbetis: You soon wear off the impressions of my mercy, as the moistnings of the early dew are soon dried up by the earth; therefore v. 7. I have hewed them by the Prophets, my judgments are broken out upon them: or otherwise, The tokens of my mercy make but short impression on ⟨p. 51⟩you; your goodness fades away, you soon return to sin: what now shall I do to you? I am resolved to try no more mercies; I have made you grow with my kindness like flourishing Trees, now will I hew you down; because you are so unprofitable, I will be unmerciful to you.
Many interpret your goodness, the goodness bestowed on you, or your mercies. So the sence is, My goodness that I bestow upon you, is but like a morning cloud, that is dissipated and scattered, and doth no good to you, you are not the better for it. And as the early dew it passeth away, i. e. Gratiam & misericordiam meam malitia vestra absorbetis: You soon wear off the impressions of my mercy, as the moistnings of the early dew are soon dryed up by the earth; therefore v. 7. I have hewed them by the Prophets, my judgments are broken out upon them: or otherwise, The tokens of my mercy make but short impression on ⟨p. 51⟩you; your goodness fades away, you soon return to sin: what now shall I do to you? I am resolved to try no more mercies; I have made you grow with my kindness like flourishing Trees, now will I hew you down; because you are so unprofitable, I will be unmerciful to you.
Here it will not be amiss to consider, how this persistence in sin after deliverance, promotes and hastens the destruction of a people.