The English Bible and the Seventeenth Century Revolution by Christopher Hill

Author:Christopher Hill [Hill, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2014-11-18T02:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve – God is Leaving England

The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea IX.1.

The withdrawing of the Lord’s glorious presence from his church is both an evident sign of his displeasure and a manifest threatening of his departure.

John Brinsley, The Third Part of the True Watch (second ed., 1622), pp. 26-35.

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As sure as God is God, God is going from England...Stop him at the town’s end, and let not thy God depart...God makes account that New England shall be a refuge...a rock and a shelter for his righteous ones to run unto.

Thomas Hooker, The Danger of Desertion, a sermon preached in 1631, in The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology (ed. A. Heimert and A. Delbanco, Harvard U.P., 1985), pp. 68-9.

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