A86532:66
The saints guide, in three treatises
The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercy, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnal mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.The saints guide, in three treatises; I. The mirror of mercie, on Gen. 6.13. II. The carnall mans condition, on Rom. 1.18. III. The plantation of the righteous, on Psa. l.3 / By Thomas Hooker minister in New-England.
London: printed for John Stafford over against Brids Church, 1645
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.
First, the fierceness of the fury of the Lord breaks in upon the sinner, and the Lord lets in the veins of vengeance, and his heavy displeasure upon the conscience, and like a Pursuivant breaks through the Chamber door, and the wrath of God saith, come away to Hell, away suddenly, go down to everlasting destruction, Psal. 42.7. ⟨p. 47⟩All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
First, the fiercenesse of the furie of the Lord breakes in upon the sinner, and the Lord lets in the veines of vengeance, and his heavie displeasure upon the conscience, and like a Pursevant breakes through the Chamber doore, and the wrath of God saith, come away to Hell, away suddenly, goe downe to everlasting destruction, Psal. 42.7. ⟨p. 47⟩All thy waves and thy billowes are gone over me.
He that was a kind loving friend, now is become a terrible enemy, and pursues as fiercely as he persuaded mercifully, Job. 15.24, 25. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid, they shall prevail against him, as a King ready to battle, For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. But though Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, (Exod: 5.2.) that I should let them go, that I should obey his voice; yet God ran upon him, even upon his neck, even upon the thick bosses of his bucklers, and crushed the pride and vanity of his soul. The poor sinner when he was informed in his judgment, ⟨p. 48⟩convinced in his conscience, and striven with by much patience, and long sufferance stretched out to the utmost, yet what though the Minister told him of plagues and threatenings, Come (saith he) let us drink &c. what though they say we must go to hell and perish, we see no such matter, thus out-facing the Almighty, and out-braving Gods Ministers: and they are sturdy, and will be so sturdy still, and rebellious, and so still continue; well, do they think to carry it away thus? The Lord will run upon them, and crush them to pieces: the Lord doth not take advantage, but when the sinner is strongest, stoutest, when his pride is shameless and impudent, and he