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The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before…
The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Council, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...The misery of a deserted people opened in a sermon preached at Pauls before the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-Councel, Decemb. 2, 1659, being a day of solemn humiliation by them appointed / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for George Thomason, 1659
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3. In a way of punishment. When the presence of God having been undervalued, and his Spirit grieved, and his grace turned into wantonness, he doth in anger depart from those who put such affronts and indignities upon him, and thus God forsakes us when we forsake him, 2 Chron. 15. 2. and when we behave our selves ill in our doings, he will hide his face from us, Micah 3. 4. It is an hiding wrath, Isa. 57. 17. 59. 2. 64. 7. for the Lord threateneth darkness to darkness to those that walk not in the light when they have it, John 12. 35.
3. In a way of punishment. When the presence of God having been undervalued, and his Spirit grieved, and his grace turned into wantonnesse, he doth in anger depart from those who put such affronts and indignities upon him, and thus God forsakes us when we forsake him, 2 Chron. 15. 2. and when we behave our selves ill in our doings, he will hide his face from us, Micah 3. 4. It is an hiding wrath, Isa. 57. 17. 59. 2. 64. 7. for the Lord threatneth darknesse to darknesse to those that walk not in the light when they have it, John 12. 35.
This penal desertion is either personal, or public. Personal is when the Lord having endured with much long-suffering, the provocations of evil men, and finding his grace still abused doth at last depart from them as he did from Saul, 1 Sam. 16. 14