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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.
4. When God takes away the benefit of both these helps, and they are signs of Gods departing.
4. When God takes away the benefit of both these helps, and they are signes of Gods departing.
May God cast off a people,1 and unchurch a nation? ⟨p. 5⟩then let it teach us to cast off all security, for miseries are nigh by all probabilities. When we observe what God hath done for us, all things are ripe for ruin, and yet we fear it not, we promise safety to our selves, and consider not that England is like to be harrowed, we cannot entertain a thought that England shall be destroyed; when there are so many professors in it, we cannot be persuaded of it, according to the conviction of our judgements, either it must not be, or not yet, as if it were impossible for God to leave England, as if God were a cockering father over lewd and stubborn children: God may leave a Nation that is but in outward covenant with him, and why not England?
May God cast off a people,1 and unchurch anation? ⟨p. 5⟩then let it teach us to cast off all security, for miseries are nigh by all probabilities. When we observe what God hath done for us, all things are ripe for ruine, and yet we feare it not, we promise safety to our selves, and consider not that England is like to be harrowed, wee cannot entertaine a thought that England shall be destroyed; when there are so many professors in it, we cannot be perswaded of it, according to the conviction of our judgements, either it must not be, or not yet, as if it were impossible for God to leave England, as if God were a cockering father over lewd and stubborne children: God may leave a Nation that is but in outward covenant with him, and why not England?