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hand_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	9,635	5	10.3237	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41644	God's call to England, for thankfulness after gracious deliverances wherein is shewed, that our deliverances, not answered with reformation, will be followed with sorest destruction / by Thomas Gouge.	Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1680 (1680)	Wing G1368; ESTC R472	73,076	204

men are conceiving the bitterness of death is past they little mind to reform the baseness of their lives They care not how little they live to God when they presume they shall live long Eccles. 8.11 Because sentence is not speedily executed therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in themselves to do evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Syr. roboratur their hearts are strengthened emboldned in them to go on in evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Because of this delaying judgments they go on with a full confidence they sin with courage This is as wind to their sayls that drives them on briskly in sinful courses With this did the wicked Jews under Divine comminations hearten themselves in their ways Ezek. 11.3 saying It is not near Gods abstinence from judgments was made an encouragement for continuance in sin So Ezek. 12.21 22. The days are prolonged Carnal persons are willing to go on in sin as long as they can and when dangers are a little gone off they more boldly go on in desperate sinning 5. This proneness to sin after such mercy arises from flattering expectations that in renewed returns of Distress they shall ever meet with the same deliverance How do men argue from their present safety to their future security How fondly do men conceive that God will be ever merciful because of his present mercies Did men wisely consider after deliverance how soon they may stand in need of the same helping arm how soon they may want the same mercy they could not be so audacious as to slight and contemn it left the next time they be deprived of it Gods present deliverances are evidences of his power to deliver us again but not assurances of his Will to do it 'T is a groundless Supposition men go upon who think Mercies are entail'd upon them and inseparably annexed to them We shall experience if we do not leave off sinning God can leave off delivering If we can still forsake God he can at last forsake us 6. We are thus inclined to sin against God after deliverance as we being delivered our hearts are brought off from their dependance on God and we are magnifying our selves instead of God When God hath given us our precious lives from the hands of devouring Enemies we imagine we can live of our selves and thence are regardless of living to God Hos. 13.6 They were filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Their outward fruitfulness caused their sinful forgetfulness Our hearts are apt to be set upon enjoyments and not on the God that gives them Hos. 4.11 Whoredome and wine take away the heart The Hebr. word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies auferre to take away by force so did those things take away their heart from God by force or occupare to occupy They occupy and take up that room in the heart God should have Thus we having worldly enjoyments continued by deliverances our hearts are detained by them that we mind not God care not how we go on in sin against him mind not how little obedience we yield to him as if we could live well enough without him 7. This proceeding in sin is partly caused by persons apprehending themselves to be innocent and their courses to be harmless from the deliverances God gives to them Carnal persons are apt to reckon their ways to be lawful because they are spared and unpunished in them Hos. 12.8 Ephraim said I am become rich I have found me out riches in all my labours they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin As much as to say Were my courses unrighteous they would not be prosperous whatever the Prophets charge me with it appears by the dealings of God with me that my doings are good if I were so sinful I should not be succesful Thus corrupted persons will vainly argue from Gods delivering were I so wicked were my actions so displeasing God would not have spared me but delivered me to destruction But oh how vain are these reasonings God bears with long-suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction out of his mercy he gives a space to repent of thy sins And who so wicked to conclude that because God exercises patience therefore they are no offenders This is a sign of Gods goodness but not of thine PROPOSITION 3. Sinning after Deliverance is the most hainous sinning It renders sin exceeding great to commit it after great mercies It is a great sin to count any sin small that is committed against a great God yet sin hath its aggravations and admits of degrees according to the circumstances under which 't is committed There are two things which render a sin most abominable when sin is committed against light and against love They are no little nor light sins that are aggravated with convictions by light nor are sins against love of an inferiour nature nothing more intolerable to Man or God than to have ill will for good deeds 'T is sinful to render evil for evil to man much more to render evil for good to God What more provoking sight can be beheld than a man impudent in evil under judgment and barren in good under mercies Affronts to love are more unsufferable than Rebellion under displays of wrath The highest unkindness is the highest sinfulness The sin of David is aggravated by the recording Gods kindness to him 2 Sam. 12.7 8 9. I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul and I gave thee thy masters house And if that had been too little I would moreover have given thee such and such things Wherefore then hast thou despised the command of the Lord to do this evil in his sight To sin in the face of God when smiling upon us with unmerited mercy is one of the greatest contempts can be cast upon God To manifest our sinfulness when we enjoy the greatest testimonies of goodness is the height of madness To withdraw our necks from an uneasie galling yoak to rebel under the severities of a cruel Tyrant to cast off the service of an imperious Master may admit some excuse but to wax wanton under mercies to despise the clemency of Heaven to deny obedience to a loving Father is an offence indefendible a crime unpardonable When God would lay a people under a conviction of the hainousness of their crimes he repeats his gracious dealings to them Ierem. 2.20 Of old time I have broken thy yoke i.e. When thou wert in Egyptian bondage under intolerable slavery I set thee free And thou saidst thou wouldst not transgress yet thou hast slighted my favours and broken thy vows and under every green tree thou wandrest playing the harlot And v. 22. this is noted for an indelible sin such sins as these are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not written but engraven they are of the deepest die and most permanent stain Hos. 7.15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me It hath an