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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.
Give me leave a little more particularly to instance the unfruitfulness of London in regard of repentance, faith, love and new obedience, the fruit which God so much looketh for, and so much delighteth in.
1. Where have been the fruits of Repentance in London? Calls there have been to repentance frequent, fervent: reason for repentance, sins numerous, heinous: need of repentance that judgments temporal, eternal, might be diverted, that pardon, happiness might be obtained: and yet O the impenitency and hard-heartedness of London! few bleeding hearts under the sharp sword of the Word; little tenderness under the most melting discourses; few converts and penitent persons did the most powerful preaching (especially before the Gospels eclipse) bring forth in London: converting work was at a great stand, though there were so many unconverted persons in the City: and by the impenitency and hardness of heart in London, Gods treasures of wrath have been filled up, which in some measure he hath opened in these late judgments, that he hath inflicted, and yet the great day of his wrath is still to come, Rom. 2. 4, 5.
1. Where have been the fruits of Repentance in London? Calls there have been to repentance frequent, fervent: reason for repentance, sins numerous, hainous: need of repentance that judgments temporall, eternall, might be diverted, that pardon, happiness might be obtained: and yet O the impenitency and hard-heartedness of London! few bleeding hearts under the sharp sword of the Word; little tenderness under the most melting discourses; few converts and penitent persons did the most powerful preaching (especially before the Gospels eclipse) bring forth in London: converting work was at a great stand, though there were so many unconverted persons in the City: and by the impenitency and hardness of heart in London, Gods treasures of wrath have been filled up, which in some measure he hath opened in these late judgments, that he hath inflicted, and yet the great day of his wrath is stil to come, Rom. 2. 4, 5.