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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.
You have been under my care, and now ye are under my curse: ye remain unchangeable in your sins, as the Ethiopians in their colour, and therefore ye shall b• of no more account with me than they• What though we have been more to God than any people on earth, and received more blessings then any Nation• ⟨p. 53⟩near us, insomuch that we might be called his chosen people for his care over us? VVill not despising mercies, sinning after deliverances, make him say, as Hos. 9.15. I will love you no more? What shall we be more to him than the Ethiopians, if we be like them in sin? Ezek. 15.2. What is the Vine-tree more than another? i.e. If the Vine bring forth no fruit, what is it more than another tree? why should it not be burnt? Whatever we have been, if we be fruitless and ungrateful, why should we not be punished? If we be not bearing trees, may not God make us burning trees? If we be not bettered by deliverance, why may we not be destroyed?
You have been under my care, and now ye are under my curse: ye remain unchangeable in your sins, as the AEthiopians in their colour, and therefore ye shall b• of no more account with me than they• VVhat though we have been more to God than any people on earth, and received more blessings then any Nation• ⟨p. 53⟩near us, insomuch that we might be called his chosen people for his care over us? VVill not despising mercies, sinning after deliverances, make him say, as Hos. 9.15. I will love you no more? VVhat shall we be more to him than the AEthiopians, if we be like them in sin? Ezek. 15.2. What is the Vine-tree more than another? i.e. If the Vine bring forth no fruit, what is it more than another tree? why should it not be burnt? VVhatever we have been, if we be fruitless and ungrateful, why should we not be punisht? If we be not bearing trees, may not God make us burning trees? If we be not bettered by deliverance, why may we not be destroyed?