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God's terrible voice in the city
God's terrible voice in the city by T.V.
London? : s.n., Printed in the year 1667
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.
They are Gods judgments, and therefore they must needs be righteous judgments; Can there be unrighteousness in God? No, in no wise: for how then could he be God? How then could he judge the world? Let God be true, and every man a liar. Rom. 3. 5, 6. Let God be righteous, and all the world unrighteous: for light may more easily depart from the Sun, and heat be separated from the fire; and the whole creation may more easily drop into nothing, than God cease to be just and righteous, in the severest judgments which he doth inflict upon the children of men.
They are Gods judgments, and therefore they must needs be righteous judgments; Can there be unrighteousness in God? No, in no wise: for how then could he be God? How then could he judge the world? Let God be true, and every man a lyar. Rom. 3. 5, 6. Let God be righteous, and all the world unrighteous: for light may more easily depart from the Sun, and heat be separated from the fire; and the whole creation may more easily drop into nothing, than God cease to be just and righteous, in the severest judgments which he doth inflict upon the children of men.
If any profane mockers do reply against God, and reflect upon his righteousness and goodness towards his own people, because these judgments have fallen so sore upon London, the Glory of the Land, yea of the World, for the number of godly persons (as in scoff they call them) which dwell in it; if God were so righteous and favourable to the Godly, would he bend his bow, and shoot so many arrows amongst them as he did in the visitation by the Plague, whilst he suffered so many notoriously wicked persons to escape? would he send the Fire to consume so many habitations of the Godly, whilst the houses of the most vicious and vile were preserved? I shall labour to stop the mouths of such, who are ready to open them against the King of Heaven, by proposing to consideration these following particulars.