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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.
The last instance of Gods speaking terribly by fire will be the last day, when the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 15⟩Christ, the Judge of Quick and Dead, shall come down from heaven in flaming fire, to take vengeance on all those that know not God, and obey not the Gospel, 2 Thes. 1. 7, 8. And the Apostle Peter tells us, that the heavens and the earth are reserved in store for fire against this day: when the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the Elements melt with fervent heat, and the Earth, and all the works therein shall be burnt up, 2 Pet. 3. 7, 10. Then God will speak terribly by fire, and above all, most terribly to the ungodly world, when he will sentence them unto, and cast them into the Fire of Hell, where they must dwell with devouring fire, and inhabit everlasting burnings.
4. The Sword is a dreadful Judgement, whereby God speaks sometimes very terribly; especially when he draws it forth against his own and his peoples Enemies. Hear how terribly God speaks, as in, Deut. 32. 39, 40, 41, 42. See now that I, even I am he, and there is no God with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand: For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering Sword, and my hand take hold on Judgement, I will render vengeance to mine Enemies, and reward them that hate me; I will make mine Arrows drunk with blood (and my Sword shall devour flesh) and that with the blood of the slain, and of the Captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the Enemies.
4. The Sword is a dreadful Iudgement, whereby God speaks sometimes very terribly; especially when he draws it forth against his own and his peoples Enemies. Hear how terribly God speaks, as in,