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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.
3. Mercies will work inwardly. Take a piece of gold, beat it with a hammer never so much, and yet you shall never separate the dross from the gold by beating of it; but put the gold into the furnace, and the fire will separate the dross from it. The hammer of the Law will batter and bruise the soul, but the dross still remains in it; but the fire of the Gospel, the furnace of Gods love will separate a man and his lusts, and purge out the filth that is inwardly got into the soul. The Sun by its hot beams made the Traveller, (as it is in the Fable) put off his Cloak, when the blustering wind made him gird his Cloak faster about him. Thus you see how mercy works more powerfully, more kindly, more inwardly. Oh that it might appear in our hearts this day, that this doctrine that I preach, is true. I read that Caesar upon a certain time with a book in his hand was hearing of Cicero pleading, and was so taken with his eloquence ⟨p. 37⟩and listened so attentively, that he let fall his book.
3. Mercies will worke inwardly. Take a piece of gold, beate it with a hammer never so much, and yet you shall never separate the drosse from the gold by beating of it; but put the gold into the furnace, and the fire will separate the drosse from it. The hammer of the Law will batter and bruise the soule, but the drosse still remaines in it; but the fire of the Gospell, the furnace of Gods love will separate a man and his lusts, and purge out the filth that is inwardly got into the soule. The Sun by its hot beames made the Traveller, (as it is in the Fable) put off his Cloke, when the blustering winde made him gird his Cloke faster about him. Thus you see how mercy workes more powerfully, more kindly, more inwardly. Oh that it might appeare in our hearts this day, that this doctrine that I preach, is true. I read that Caesar upon a certaine time with a booke in his hand was hearing of Cicero pleading, and was so taken with his eloquence ⟨p. 37⟩and listened so attentively, that he let fall his booke.