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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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1II. Just matter of Taxation also is here given us of the careless disposition of such, who living in times and places when and where God doth marvellous works, lightly pass them over, without taking any due notice thereof for the present, or remembering them for the future. This doth the Psalmist thus tax, Psal. 106.7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies. Such do hereby (as ⟨p. 14⟩much as in them lieth) rob God of much of that glory which otherwise he might receive from his wondrous works, and also deprive other men of singular helps, which they might have had from those works, which God did before their days. Herein they show themselves as bad as, if not worse then, that Judge which feared not God nor regarded man▪ Luk. 18.2. yea, they suffer that light, which might have been an excellent direction to themselves in the ways of God, to go out, and so stand in their own light and hinder their own good.
1II. Just matter of Taxation also is here given us of the carelesse disposition of such, who living in times and places when and where God doth marvellous works, lightly passe them over, without taking any due notice thereof for the present, or remembring them for the future. This doth the Psalmist thus taxe, Psal. 106.7. Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies. Such doe hereby (as ⟨p. 14⟩much as in them lieth) rob God of much of that glory which otherwise he might receive from his wondrous workes, and also deprive other men of singular helps, which they might have had from those workes, which God did before their dayes. Herein they shew themselves as bad as, if not worse then, that Judge which feared not God nor regarded man▪