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

There is no sin that doth more provoke God to anger, or sooner cause him to destroy a Nation, and to destroy it utterly, than this sin: To sin after mercy▪ under mercy, and with mercies. So it is said Ezra 9. 13, 14. Seeing thou O God hast given us such a ⟨p. 30⟩deliverance as this, should we again break thy Commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us, till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? To sin after mercy, and with mercy, procures universal and utter destruction. Because I called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, ¹I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh, &c. God is never more angry than when he laughs. Quod Deus loquitur cum risu, id tu legas f•etu. We have never more cause to weep, than when God laughs. Zach. 7. 13, 14. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried and they would not hear, so they cried and I would not hear, saith the Lord of Hosts, but I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the Nations, whom they knew not; thus the laud was desolate after them.

There is no sinne that doth more provoke God to anger, or sooner cause him to destroy a Nation, and to destroy it utterly, than this sinne: To sinne after mercy▪ under mercy, and with mercies. So it is said Ezra 9. 13, 14. Seeing thou O God hast given us su•h a ⟨p. 30⟩deliverance as this, should we againe breake thy Commandements, and joyne in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldst thou not be angry with us, till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? To sinne after mercy, and with mercy, procures universall and utter destruction. Because I called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded,