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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.
2. Because they do not hearken to the voice of his goodness and mercies. The goodness and forbearance of God doth speak unto men from him, and call upon them to forbear sin for shame, to repent and return to him, Rom. 1. 4. But when men despise the riches of his goodness, and deafen their ear unto the language of his mercies, and trample his patience under foot (though God hath appointed a day of wrath hereafter, wherein he will reckon with the whole ungodly World together, and give them the just demerit of their sin, yet) sometimes his patience is turned hereby into fury, and his anger doth break forth into a flame, and consumes them by the blow of dreadful temporal judgments.
2. Because they do not hearken to the voice of his goodness and mercies. The goodness and forbearance of God doth speak unto men from him, and call upon them to forbear sin for shame, to repent and return to him, Rom. 1. 4. But when men despise the riches of his goodness, and deafen their ear unto the language of his mercies, and trample his patience under foot (though God hath appointed a day of wrath hereafter, wherein he will reckon with the whole ungodly World together, and give them the just demerit of their sin, yet) sometimes his patience is turned hereby into fury, and his anger doth break forth into a flame, and consumes them by the blow of dreadfull temporal judgments.
3. Because they will not hearken to the voice of lesser afflictions; when Gods word is not heard, he speaks by his Rod; when his Rod is not heard, he shoots with his arrows & strikes with his sword; and if lesser afflictions be not minded, then God speaks by more dreadful awakening judgments: as the sins of men do precede the judgments of God: so usually lesser judgments do precede greater judgments; and as there are degrees and steps which men usually do make before they arrive to a great height in sin, Nemo repentè fit turpissimus: so there are degrees and steps which God usually doth take, in inflicting his judgments for sin. Look into one place for all, which shows how God doth proceed from less to greater judgments,