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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.
Corruption in our ways under mercies, will cause a cessation of them. So it was with the people of the Jews, Hos. 1.6. Call her name Lo-ruchamah, for I will not add any more to the house of Israel, but I will utterly take away. I will add no more days of prosperity, years of plenty; no more gracious deliverances, or pledges of mercy, but I will utterly take away: I have been filling, but now will I empty you; the Hebr. [Greek or Hebrew] signifies obliviscendo, obliviscor, in forgetting I will forget them. I will no more be favourable to them, but forgetful of them; though they perish, I won't remember them; they have not minded my mercies, I will not mind their miseries. Thus God puts a stop to ⟨p. 57⟩the streams of mercy, locks up the storehouse of blessings, and adds no more. David prays, Psal. 36.10. Oh continue thy loving kindness, &c. Hebr. signifies, Pertraha, draw out, lengthen out the tokens of thy love; but this will be only to those that are drawn to God by them. They may call every mercy a Joseph, which signifies, God will add more. But 'tis not so with ungrateful sinners, God will make an end of bestowing mercies, unless they make an end of abusing of them: God will cease deliverances, unless we cease dishonouring him with them.
Corruption in our ways under mercies, will cause a cessation of them. So it was with the people of the Iews, Hos. 1.6. Call her name Lo-ruchamah, for I will not add any more to the house of Israel, but I will utterly take away. I will add no more days of prosperity, years of plenty; no more gracious deliverances, or pledges of mercy, but I will utterly take away: I have been filling, but now will I empty you; the Hebr. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies obliviscendo, obliviscor, in forgetting I will forget them. I will no more be favourable to them, but forgetful of them; though they perish, I wo'nt remember them; they have not minded my mercies, I will not mind their miseries. Thus God puts a stop to ⟨p. 57⟩the streams of mercy, locks up the storehouse of blessings, and adds no more. David prays,