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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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What better thing (rebus sic stantibus ut tunc & nunc) could have happened to this State? The good consequencies, that have happened thereupon, are evident demonstrations of Gods mind, still to do better and better for us.
What better thing (rebus sic stantibus ut tunc & nunc) could have happened to this State? The good consequencies, that have happened thereupon, are evident demonstrations of Gods minde, still to do better and better for us.
It would exceed the proportion of a Dedicatory Epistle, to reckon up the particular instances of the Divine Providence, increasing time after time for the better unto us, and that by virtue of this present Parliament: they are so clear and evident, as none, but such as take notice of nothing, can be ignorant of them: and none, but envious and malignant spirits, can conceal or pervert them.
It would exceed the proportion of a Dedicatory Epistle, to reckon up the particular instances of the Divine Providence, encreasing time after time for the better unto us, and that by vertue of this present Parliament: they are so clear and evident, as none, but such as take notice of nothing, can be ignorant of them: and none, but envious and malignant spirits, can conceal or pervert them.
When might the good Providence of God have been better discerned, in protecting the persons, upholding the spirits, directing the counsels, and prospering the endeavours of such as were assembled in a Parliament, then in this? When might the like Providence of God have ⟨image 4⟩been better discerned in stirring up mens minds, encouraging their spirits, enabling their bodies, and preserving their persons for maintaining a cause, then in this cause that is now maintained by the Parliament? Of them who with a single eye behold the footsteps of the Lord in the Counsels of our Parliament, it may justly be said, They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God,