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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.
1. If the beginnings of hope that now appear, and these inclinings of better days will not work upon us to bumble us for, and from sin: God will take away all our hopes, & all his mercies from us, and give them to a Nation that will make better use of them. And as I said in my last Sermon which I preached before this Honourable assembly) he will repent of the good things which 1he intended to bestow upon us. Remember what I hinted before of Saul, that if he had tarried for Samuel, God would have established 2the kingdom unto him, But now, saith Samuel, thy Kingdom shall not continue. How do we know but that if we humble our selves, and enter into covenant to be G• people, and seek the Lord with all our heart, but that God may establish us to be his choice people for ever? But if we harden our hearts against God ⟨p. 45⟩and his ways, God will say unto us t•is day, I thought to have made you a happy kingdom, but now your happiness shall not continue.
1. If the beginnings of hope that now appeare, and these inclinings of better dayes will not work upon us to bumble us for, and from sin: God will take away all our hopes, & all his mercies from us, and give them to a Nation that will make better use of them. And as I said in my last Sermon which I preached before this Honourable assembly) he will repent of the good things which 1he intended to bestow upon us. Remember what I hinted before of Saul, that if hee had tarried for Samuel, God would have established 2the kingdome unto him, But now, saith Samuel, thy Kingdome shall not continue. How do we know but that if we humble our selves, and enter into covenant to be G• people, and seeke the Lord with all our heart, but that God may establish us to be his choice people for ever? But if we harden our hearts against God ⟨p. 45⟩