A41644:87
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.
1. Hereby that peculiar respect that God hath for one people above another, is made to cease; and they are looked upon no otherwise, than the vilest of people in the world. In Gods providential dispensations, he bears some singular favour to some, beyond what he doth to others, although these may be nothing more deserving than other Nations; and from this favour he confers singular Temporal Blessings upon them; and these he •alls his people, as especially cared for, •reserved and provided for by him. But […] these despise his kindness, and con••mn his goodness, he then un-peoples ••em, and casts them out of his favour; •nd then they become as liable to judgments, as the greatest abjects in the ⟨p. 52⟩world. Thus was it with the people of the Jews, the Lord separated them from all the world for his care and charge: hence he did mighty things for them; but continuing long in their sins, notwithstanding his mercies, Hos. 2.9. he bids the Prophet tell them, Ye are not my people, I will not be your God; and this rejection made way for that ruin now upon them. In the 9th of Amos, the Prophet is threatening judgment against that sinful people, against which they fortified themselves with presumptuous boastings of their being Gods people, chosen by him, & so often owned by deliverances; but for their abusing mercies, God tells them, v. 7. Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me? saith the Lord, i.e. Non pluri• vos facio quam AEthiopes, Grot. You are now no more to me than the vilest people.
1. Hereby that peculiar respect that God hath for one people above another, is made to cease; and they are lookt upon no otherwise, than the vilest of people in the world. In Gods providen•ial dispensations, he bears some singular favour to some, beyond what he doth to others, although these may be nothing more deserving than other Nations; and from this favour he confers singular Temporal Blessings upon them; and these he •alls his people, as especially cared for, reserved and provided for by him. But these despise his kindness, and conmn his goodness, he then un-peoples em, and casts them out of his favour; nd then they become as liable to judgents, as the greatest abjects in the