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The danger of desertion or, A farewell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister…The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister…
The danger of desertion or, A farewell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.
London: printed by G. M. for George Edwards, 1641
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.
Secondly, in the 8. verse, we have the importunate prayer of the Church, to turn away these judgements; and the prayer is marvellous sweet, partly in confession, where they confess their sins, and seek to God for succour against them: As if they should say, Lo we are as base as base can be, and therefore help for the Lords sake, and thus they make their supplication in the 7. and 8. verses, and this short prayer discovers it self, partly in the things prayed for, and partly in the manner, and the holy Prophet intending this is very sweet in it.
Secondly, in the 8. verse, we have the importunate prayer of the Church, to turne away these judgements; and the prayer is marvellous sweet, partly in confession, where they confesse their sinnes, and seeke to God for succour against them: As if they should say, Loe we are as base as base can be, and therefore help for the Lords sake, and thus they make their supplication in the 7. and 8. verses, and this short prayer discovers it selfe, partly in the things prayed for, and partly in the manner, and the holy Prophet intending this is very sweet in it.
First, they pray that God will not take away his presence from them, Why stayest thou but a night? As if he should say, it is marvellous strange, that thou behavest thy self as a stranger.
First, they pray that God will not take away his presence from them, Why stayest thou but a night? As if he should say, it is marvellous strange, that thou behavest thy selfe as a stranger.
Thou seest our sorrows, and helpest not. Thou seest our trouble, and succourest not. Thou standest, and seest Jerusalem in trouble, and Judah in misery, but thou helpest not. It is strange that thou the great God of Hosts standest as a man astonished: thou hast received us, but now thou standest as a man amazed, as if thou wast weary of thy work, and couldest do no more: As if he should say, Jerusalem cannot be succoured, & Judea cannot be saved.