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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.
Thus also we read in the 2 Sam. 10. When David sent a kind Embassage to King Hanun, to comfort him after his fathers death, and he despised and abused the messengers, shaving off the one half of their beards, and cutting off their garments in the middle, ⟨p. 33⟩&c. this did so far incense David, as it made him destroy them all after a rigid manner. Gods mercies are like Davids messengers messages of love. God looks we should improve these messages to his glory. But if we despise them, and abuse him with them, he will utterly destroy us. O consider this, you that forget God, You that undervalue his mercies, You that contemn his mercies, You that sin with his mercies. How angry was Christ with Peter, because he would not suffer him to wash his feet? he seems to be more angry with him than when he denied him, because he refused an act of Christs love. Christ took it unkindly, at Peters hands. When God comes in love to us, and offers to wash us, and to reform us, if we refuse to be washed, and choose rather to wallow in the mire of sin and superstition, this will provoke God more than if we did flatly deny him. We would have healed Babylon, 1but she is not healed, forsake her, and let us go every one into his own Country, for her judgement reacheth unto Heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies. Which words tell us, That those that sin with mercies, shall be lifted up as high in judgement as they are in mercy. Thus it is likewise said Ezekiel 24. ver. 13. Because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. Oh that the Lord would give us hearts to lay these things to heart! Oh let us be ashamed and confounded, ashamed, and ashamed, that ever we have sinned, after mercies, under mercies, and with mercies.
Thus also we reade in the 2 Sam. 10. When David sent a kind Embassage to King Hanun, to comfort him after his fathers death, and he despised and abused the messengers, shaving off the one h•lfe of their beards, and cutting off their garments in the middle,