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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.
We Ministers preach what God in his ordinary way is wont to do, 1& what God in his word hath threatened to a Nation guilty of such sins as ours are. But God hath dealt with England, not according to his ordinary rule, but according to his Prerogative. England (if I may so speak with reverence) is a Paradox to the Bible. The Bible tells us what sins will make a Nation ripe for destruction, and we find these sins in our Nation. But if God will leave his ordinary road, and except us from the general rule, and miraculously save us by Prerogative, and free grace, who ⟨p. 40⟩can hinder a free agent? This is a rare act of his Prerogative, & the more mercy there is in it, the more ought we to be confounded for our apostasies, whoredoms, abominations, and rebellions against this God.
We Ministers preach what God in his ordinary way is wont to do, 1& what God in his word hath threatned to a Nation guilty of such sins as ours are. But God hath dealt with England, not according to his ordinary rule, but according to his Prerogative. England (if I may so speake with reverence) is a Paradox to the Bible. The Bible tels us what sinnes will make a Nation ripe for destruction, and we finde these sinnes in our Nation. But if God will leave his ordinary road, and except us from the generall rule, and miraculously save us by Prerogative, and free grace, who ⟨p. 40⟩can hinder a free agent? This is a rare act of his Prerogative, & the more mercy there is in it, the more ought we to be confounded for our apostasies, whoredomes, abominations, and rebellions against this God.
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Men, brethren and fathers, if all that I have said this day, will not work upon your hearts, give me leave to name some other kind of mercies unto you. For I am all for mercy this day.