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The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements…
The glory of goodness. The goodness of God celebrated; in remarkable instances and improvements thereof: and more particularly in the redemption remarkably obtained for the English captives, which have been languishing under the tragical, and the terrible and the most barbarous cruelties of barbary. : [Six lines from Psalms]
printed by T. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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We do in the first place, Pray to the God of all Grace, that you may have the Grace to be very sensible of the matchless Favours that God hath bestowed upon you. Look, Oh! Look back, upon your doleful and woeful Circumstances in the Hands of a Bitter and Hasty Nation. Read the Book of Lamentations, as one of the Ancients tells us, he did use to do, when he felt Vanity growing upon his mind; and from thence Revive to your own mind, the Remembrance of your own Lamentable Miseries. But herewith•l Remember, how much you would once have given, to be brought out of those miserable Confusions. And acknowledge that you have Deserved all your Sufferings, from the Hands of a Righteous God, before whom you must indeed say, Lord, Thou hast punished us •ar less than our Iniquities have deserved. ⟨p. 48⟩It is a Surprising Mercy of God, that has rescued you from the Horrible Pit, into which you were fallen; But that which makes it the more Surprising, is, that it is a Singular Mercy. In former Years, the Lions Den, in that part of Barba••, where you have been cast, had this unhappy Character upon it, Few or none Returned. That we now see a Return of so many, who have been a Prey to those Terrible one•, truly, 'tis a New, a Strange, & a Great Sight. We may say upon it▪ This is the Lords Doing, and it is •arvello• in our Eyes!
We do in the first place, Pray to the God of all Grace, that you may have the Grace to be very sensible of the match•ess Favours that God hath bestowed upon you. Look, Oh! Look back, upon your doleful and woful Circumstances in the Hands of a Bitter and Hasty Nation. Read the Book of Lamentations, as one of the Ancients tells us, he did use to do, when he felt Vanity growing upon his mind; and from thence Revive to your own mind, the Remembrance of your own Lamentable Miseries. But herewith•l Remember, how much you would once have given, to be brought out of those miserable Confusions. And acknowledge that you have Deserved all your Sufferings, from the Hands of a Righteous God, before whom you must ndeed say, Lord, Thou hast punished us ar less than our Iniquities have deserved.