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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.
3. Further, if these judgments have fallen upon Gods people, we must know that they have their sins, which have deserved them, possibly some have begun now to comply with the wicked in their wicked ways, it may be they were grown more loose in their walking, and formal in ⟨p. 79⟩the service of God, & their hearts more set on the World, of which sins more largely when I come to speak of the sins of the City; and the sins of Gods people have more heinous aggravations, than the sins of the wicked, being committed against clearer light, dearer love, sweeter mercies, stronger obligations, and therefore provoke God the more to wrath; therefore he threateneth his own people especially to punish them when they transgress, Am. 3. 2. You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth, and therefore I will punish you for your iniquities.
3. Further, if these judgments have fallen upon Gods people, we must know that they have their sins, which have deserved them, possibly some have begun now to comply with the wicked in their wicked wayes, it may be they were grown more loose in their walking, and formal in ⟨p. 79⟩the service of God, & their hearts more set on the World, of which sins more largely when I come to speak of the sins of the City; and the sins of Gods people have more hainous aggravations, than the sins of the wicked, being committed against clearer light, dearer love, sweeter mercies, stronger obligations, and therefore provoke God the more to wrath; therefore he threatneth his own people especially to punish them when they transgress, Am. 3. 2. You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth, and therefore I will punish you for your iniquities.
5. Besides, they may have need of awakening judgments to rouse them, and humble them for sin, to loosen and wean them from the World; and it is in love and faithfulness, that God doth inflict such judgments upon them.
5. Besides, they may have need of awakening judgments to rouze them, and humble them for sin, to loosen and wean them from the World; and it is in love and faithfulness, that God doth inflict such judgments upon them.