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Englands looking-glass presented in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...
London: printed by I. Raworth for Chr. Meredith, 1642
A Sermon Preached at a Fast before the Honourable House of COMMONS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2As this Reformation must be personal, so also it must be national. For so saith the Text, If that Nation against which, &c. A particular man by turning unto God, may turn away a particular judgement. But when the sins of a Nation are general, and the judgements upon a Nation general, the turning must be general. If the Sea hath broken the banks, and overflown the Country, it is not the care of one or two men, by repairing their banks, that can prevent the inundation. Even so when God is ⟨p. 45⟩overflowing a Land with a general destruction, there must be a general endeavour to make up the whole breach. There must be a Court-Reformation, a Country-Reformation, a City-Reformation, Church and State-Reformation, a General-Reformation.
2As this Reformation must be personall, so also it must be nationall. For so saith the Text, If that Nation against which, &c. A particular man by turning unto God, may turn away a particular judgement. But when the sins of a Nation are generall, and the judgements upon a Nation generall, the turning must be generall. If the Sea hath broken the banks, and overflown the Countrey, it is not the care of one or two men, by repairing their banks, that can prevent the inundation. Even so when God is ⟨p. 45⟩overflowing a Land with a generall destruction, there must be a generall endeavour to make up the whole breach. There must be a Court-Reformation, a Countrey-Reformation, a City-Reformation, Church and State-Reformation, a Generall-Reformation.
- 2It must be national.It must be nationall.
But how shall we do to obtain this general Reformation?