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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.
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 Judges 11. God brings in his deliverances to plead against the people of Israel. Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, the Zidonians also and the Amalekites? &c. Yet you have forsaken me, therefore I will deliver you no more. When justice pleads against a Nation, there is mercy to fly unto: but if mercy (because it is abused to sin) become our enemy, there is no way but everlasting ruin.
To sin with mercy is to make mercy to be our adversary. And if 1mercy plead against a Nation, then looke for speedy destruction. Mercy is our best friend (as you have •eard) but when we sinne against it, we turne our chiefest friend into our bitterest enemy, and mercy it selfe cryes to God against us, and the cry of mercy cryes louder against us than the cry of justice. As poyson when it is mingled with sweete Wine, the Wine puts strength into the poyson, and makes it more powerfull: so the sweet mercies of God, when they are mingled with our sins, put strength into our sins, and make them more powerfull to destroy us. In the tenth of Judges 11. God brings in his deliverances to plead against the people of Israel. Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, and from the c•ildren of Ammon, and from the Philistines, the Zidonians also and the Amalekites? &c. Yet you have forsaken me, therefore I will deliver you no more. When justice pleads against a Nation, there is mercy to flye unto: but if mercy (because it is abused to sinne) become our enemy, there is no way but everlasting ruine.