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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.
3. Hereby God is provoked to stop all proceedings in way of deliverance, and leave a people to successless shiftings for themselves: Judges 10.12, 13. Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites? yet ye have forsaken me; I will deliver you no more. Sinning after deliverance, dis-engages God from appearing any more for us. And what can be more dreadful, than to hear God say in his wrath, Oh ye ingrateful people! I have once and again improved my wisdom and power on your behalf, to prevent your ruin; but since ye go on still to provoke me, whatever your condition is hereafter, you must never look for help from me; whoever be your enemy, you must not look for me to be your friend: I will never stand up for such Rebels, nor dishonour my Name in delivering you to sin against me. We cannot want comfort whilst under promises of Divine assistance, and help from Heaven in our dangers; ⟨p. 56⟩but if God stands off, we must inevitably fall into the hands of our enemies, and become preys to their greedy lusts. If God says I will add no more deliverance, there is none can promise deliverance to us. Oh miserable people, whom God thus forsakes in anger! we shall never see another deliverance, if the Lord should resolve I will add no more. We shall never out-live the dangers we daily live in, if God should determine to leave us to them.
3. Hereby God is provoked to stop all proceedings in way of deliverance, and leave a people to successless shiftings for themselves: Iudges 10.12, 13. Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites? yet ye have forsaken me; I will deliver you no more. Sinning after deliverance, dis-engages God from appearing any more for us. And what can be more dreadful, than to hear God say in his wrath, Oh ye ingrateful people! I have once and again improved my wisdom and power on your behalf, to prevent your ruine; but since ye go on still to provoke me, whatever your condition is hereafter, you must never look for help from me; whoever be your enemy, you must not look for me to be your friend: I will never stand up for such Rebels, nor dishonour my Name in delivering you to sin against me. We cannot want comfort whilst under promises of Divine assistance, and help from Heaven in our dangers;