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Mercies memorial set out in a sermon preached in Paul's church, Novemb. 17, 1644,…
Mercies memorial set out in a sermon preached in Paul's church, Novemb. 17, 1644, in memorial of the great deliverance which England had from antichristian bondage by Queen Elizabeths attaining the crown/ by William Gouge ...Mercies memorial set out in a sermon preached in Paul's church, Novemb. 17, 1644, in memoriall of the great deliverance which England had from antichristian bondage by Queen Elizabeths attaining the crowne/ by William Gouge ...
London: printed by George Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1645London: printed by George Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1645
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1I. Surely they who after deliverance forget the misery wherein they were, manifest a very ungrateful and ungracious disposition against God, moving him (as much as in them lieth) to repent of the good he hath done for them (as it repented him that he set up Saul to be King, 1. Sam. 15.11.) They do also take away much from the sweetness and the comfort of that deliverance which they might have in their own souls. For remembrance of a bitter affliction past doth much sweeten a quiet and peaceable estate. Yea further they deprive themselves of an especial ground of confidence, which they might have, if again they fall into any trouble, as hath bin proved before.
1I. Surely they who after deliverance forget the misery wherein they were, manifest a very ungratefull and ungracious disposition against God, moving him (as much as in them lyeth) to repent of the good he hath done for them (as it repented him that he set up Saul to be King, 1. Sam. 15.11.) They doe allso take away much from the sweetnesse and the comfort of that deliverance which they might have in their owne soules. For remembrance of a bitter affliction past doth much sweeten a quiet and peaceable estate. Yea further they deprive themselves of an especiall ground of confidence, which they might have, if againe they fall into any trouble, as hath bin prooved before.
- 1Uses. 1. Discommodities of forgetting former miseries.Ʋses. 1. Discommodities of forgetting former miseries.
1II. Let us therefore be more wise: and among other things that we often meditate on, call to mind such distresses as formerly we have bin in, and from which thorough Gods providence we have bin delivered: whether they be such as the whole Christian Church have groaned under, or particular Churches, either of our own or other nations: yea and such also as we our selves have bin in, or our children, families, friends, or others near and dear unto us. For private deliverances, particular Diaries before mentioned are needful, and oft reading them will be very useful. For public deliverances, it will be time well spent to read such Ecclesiastical Histories as set forth the cruel persecutions of the primitive Christians under heathenish Emperors from the Apostles time till Constantine the great.