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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

Name: Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliation
Author: Edmund Calamy

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 ...

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1642

[6], 50 p. · 23k words · Wing C253A · ESTC R19544

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A SERMON PREACHED AT A FAST Before the Honourable House of COMMONS.A SERMON PREACHED AT A FAST Before the Honorable House of COMMONS.

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Because he that sinneth with the mercies of God, turns the greatest ¹good into the greatest evil, and brings darkness out of light, which is a work proper to the devil. It is Gods work to bring light out of darkness, good out of evil, but it is the devils work to bring evil out of good. Now to sin with Gods mercies, is to bring the greatest evil out of the greatest good; To bring the darkness of sin out of the light of mercy. It is to act a devil, which God must needs abhor, and which will certainly bring u• to the devil.

Because he that sinneth with the mercies of God, turnes the greatest ¹good into the greatest evill, and brings darknesse out of light, which is a worke proper to the devill. It is Gods worke to bring light out of darknesse, good out of evill, but it is the devils worke to bring evill out of good. Now to sin with Gods mercies, is to bring the greatest evill out of the greatest good; To bring the darknesse of sinne out of the light of mercy. It is to act a devill, which God must needes abhorre, and which will certainely bring u• to the devill.

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To sin with mercy is to make mercy to be our adversary. And if ¹mercy plead against a Nation, then look for speedy destruction. Mercy is our best friend (as you have •eard) but when we sin against it, we turn our chiefest friend into our bitterest enemy, and mercy it self cries to God against us, and the cry of mercy cries louder against us than the cry of justice. As poison when it is mingled with sweet Wine, the Wine puts strength into the poison, and makes it more powerful: so the sweet mercies of God, when they are mingled with our sins, put strength into our sins, and make them more powerful to destroy us. In the tenth of

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666

Place

London

Bookseller

Christopher Meredith

Year

1642

Size

[6], 50 p.

Words

22,916

Catalogue

Wing C253A · ESTC R19544

Text

EEBO-TCP A32016

Passages

171

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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