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Works of Thomas Brooks (The Works)

By Thomas Brooks

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Works of Thomas Brooks (The Works)

By Thomas Brooks

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Purchase of this book includes * trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for *. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is the author or efficient cause of sword, famine, and pestilence. This I have in part proved already; but shall more abundantly make it good in that which follows. But you will say, Sir, we know very well that God is the author or efficient cause of this dreadful judgment of fire, as well as he is the author or efficient cause of any other judgment that we have either felt or feared; but we earnestly desire to know what the ends of God should be in inflicting this sore and heavy judgment of fire upon his poor people, and in turning their glorious city into ashes ? This we are sure of, that whoever kindled the fire, God did blow the coal, and therefore we shall not now consider what there was of man's treachery concurring with God's severity in that dreadful calamity by fire; but rather inquire after the grounds, reasons, or ends that God aims at by that fiery dispensation that has lately passed upon us. Now here give me leave to say, that so far as the late fire was a heavy judgment of God upon the city, yea, upon the whole nation, the ends of God in. inflicting that judgment are doubtless such as respect both sinners and saints, the righteous and the wicked, the profane and the holy, the good and the bad. Now such as respect the wicked and ungodly I take to be these that follow: ? [1.] First, That he may evidence his sovereignty, and that they may know that there is a God. The profane atheist saith in his heart, ' There is no God;' but God by his terrible judgments startles and awakens the atheist, and makes him unsay what he had said in his heart.1 When God appears in flames of fire, devouring and destroying all before him, then the proudest and the stoutest atheists in the world will confess that there is a God?yea, then they will bow and tremble tmder a sense of the so.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
500
Release Date:
1980-02-27
Publication Date:
1980-02-27
Publisher:
BANNER OF TRUTH
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0851513034
Weight:
862 g
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