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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.
And indeed when I consider seriously how the mercies of England are abused by England, I am possessed with exceeding great fear, lest all our mercies should be but forerunners of some greater miseries, and all our preservations, reservations to some greater destruction. For though the times are changed, yet our people are not changed; though the times be better, yet the men that live in these times are not better.
And indeed when I consider seriously how the mercies of England are abused by England, I am possessed with exceeding great feare, lest all our mercies should be but forerunners of some greater miseries, and all our preservations, reservations to some greater destruction. For though the times are changed, yet our people are not changed; though the times be better, yet the men that live in these times are not better.
The Sodomites were delivered by Abraham, but because they sinned 1after their deliverance, their preservation was but a reservation for a greater destruction by fire and brimstone. Lots wife was delivered out of Sodom, but because she looked back towards Sodom, her preservation was but a reservation to be turned to a pillar of salt. Pharaoh was often delivered by the prayer of Moses, but ⟨p. 34⟩because he hardened his heart after deliverance, his preservation was but a reservation, till he was drowned in the Red Sea. The people of Israel had deliverance upon deliverance, but because they continued to sin after deliverance, God at last destroyed them with a woeful destruction. The Lord open our eyes to consider these things, and to be confounded and ashamed for our evil doings, and to loath our selves for our former abominations, and to be humbled exceedingly for our sins against mercy, that God may continue his deliverances to us, and our posterity after us, as long as the Sun and Moon endureth.
The Sodomites were delivered by Abraham, but because they sinned