William Reyner on the Lord shaking the nations to correct scandal in the church

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In the next place, let us consider such grounds and reasons as the Scriptures lead us unto, why the Lord in the course of his administration and providence, doth cause such great shakings of Nations before he doth reform and refine his Church, and we shall find these three in special. …

That he may take away the scandal of great sins: The visible Church is like a draw-net, that takes in Fishes good and bad, it so falls out often times, that this Church is filled with gross sins committed and permitted, with blasphemy, swearing cursing, lying stealing, profanation of God’s Ordinances and Sabbaths persecutions of the godly, and all kinds of licentiousness, open sins against the very letter of the Law; and these lived in against the express doctrine which the committers of them know and profess: ...

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