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Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliationGods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation
Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ...
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1642
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.
3. Such as sin with the mercies of God, that like the Spider, suck poison out of those flowers out of which a Bee sucks honey; that suck their damnation out of those mercies, out of which the godly suck their salvation; that make a golden calf of the jewels of mercy, and sacrifice their sons and daughters unto devils; that turn the grace of God into wantonness; that improve their honours, learning, wealth, parts, to make themselves more active to sin against God, to be Ingeniose nequam, facundi, sed malo publico. As Basil saith of Eve, That God gave her to be a 1helper to Adam, and made her of the rib of Adam, but the devil took this rib, and made a dart of it, and with this dart shot at Adams heart, and wounded him to death, Per costam petit cor, so God hath bestowed mercies upon us to help us to serve him more cheerfully, more liberally, but there are many that play the devils part, and that take these mercies, and make darts of them to shoot against God, and his cause: Non ho• quae situm mun•s in us•.
3. Such as sinne with the mercies of God, that like the Spider, sucke poyson out of those flowers out of which a Bee suckes honey; that sucke their damnation out of those mercies, out of which the godly sucke their salvation; that make a golden calfe of the jewels of mercy, and sacrifice their sonnes and daughters unto devils; that turne the grace of God into wantonnesse; that improve their honours, learning, wealth, parts, to make themselves more active to sinne against God, to be Ingeniose nequam, facundi, sed malo publico. As Basil saith of Eve, That God gave her to be a 1helper to Adam, and made her of the rib of Adam, but the devill tooke this rib, and made a dart of it, and with this dart shot at Adams heart, and wounded him to death, Per costam petit cor, so God hath bestowed mercies upon us to helpe us to serve him more chearefully, more liberally, but there are many that play the devils part, and that take these mercies, and make darts of them to shoot against God, and his cause: Non ho• quae situm mun•s in us•.