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The progress of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey…The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey…
The progress of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monthly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.The progresse of divine providence, set out in a sermon preached in the Abbey Church of Westminster before the house of Peers, on the 24th of September, 1645. being the day of their monethly fast. / By William Gouge, one of the members of the Assembly.
London: printed by G.M. for Joshua Kirton next Goldsmiths-hall, 1645London: printed by G.M. for Ioshua Kirton next Goldsmiths-hall, 1645
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THE PROGRESS OF GODS Providence.THE PROGRESSE OF GODS Providence.
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10. All that having escaped the pollutions of the world, 1through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein, and overcome, and wilfully sin, after they have received the knowledge of the truth. 2In a word, all apostates from the true faith, deal most ungraciously and ungratefully with God. I may well use Moses his exprobration against them,3 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? The fore-mentioned Gospel-sins, and others like unto them, do much grieve the good Spirit of God, and they that commit them go far in treading under foot the Son of God, 4and counting the blood of the Covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing. By the means of grace they are exalted unto heaven: 5but by their abuse thereof they are brought down unto hell. So as the woe denounced against those, among whom Christ much conversed, may be applied to these. The inference which the Apostle maketh upon Gospel-sinners, cannot but terrify such as heed it,6 it is this, He that despised Moses Law died without mercy. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God? &c.
10. All that having escaped the pollutions of the world, 1through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein, and overcome, and willfully sinne, after they have received the knowledge of the truth. 2In a word, all apostates from the true faith, deal most ungraciously and ungratefully with God. I may well use Moses his exprobration against them,3