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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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Let us now consider what a fearful Woe this is for God thus to leave a people,1 it is of all other the most comprehensive, Eminently containing in it all other woes, as Gods presence doth all other comforts. This the most comprehensive Promise in the ⟨p. 21⟩Covenant of grace, I will be their God. And this the most comprehensive threatening, I will depart, I will lo•e them no more. The Apostle calls it wrath to the uttermost, 21 Thes. 2. 16. The Prophet wants words to express it, and veils it over with this black and dismal intimation, Thus will I do unto thee, Amos 4. 12. when they scornfully asked the Prophets what burden they had from the Lord to deliver unto them the Lord gives them this as a Burden of burdens, a Curse of curses, I will forsake you, saith the Lord, Jerem. 23. 33.
Let us now consider what a fearful Woe this is for God thus to leave a people,1 it is of all other the most comprehensive, Eminently containing in it all other woes, as Gods presence doth all other comforts. This the most comprehensive Promise in the ⟨p. 21⟩Covenant of grace, I will be their God. And this the most comprehensive threatning, I will depart, I will lo•e them no more. The Apostle calls it wrath to the uttermost, 21 Thes. 2. 16. The Prophet wants words to expresse it, and veiles it over with this black and dismal intimation, Thus will I do unto thee,