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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.
2. When God hath done much for a Nation, and that Nation sins with his mercies, God will not only take away his mercies, but will send curses instead of blessings. For so it is said, Josh. 24. 20. If ye seek the Lord, and serve strange gods, then will he 1turn and do you hurt and consume you, after he hath done you good. God may out of his free mercy prorogue, and demur our ruin, but be will never remove it, till our National sins be removed.
2. When God hath done much for a Nation, and that Nation sinnes with his •ercies, God will not onely take away his mercies, but will send curses instead of blessings. For so it is said, Josh. 24. 20. If yee seeke the Lord, and serve strange gods, then will he 1turne and do you hurt and consume you, after he hath done you good. God may out of his free mercy prorogue, and demurre our ruine, but be will never remove it, till our Nationall sinnes be removed.
3. If God should heal us, help us, and lengthen out our tranquillity, and make a reformation among us, yet it would be but a lame cure, if we be not confounded and ashamed for our evil ways. It will be but a skinning over of our disease, and a daubing of us up with untempered mortar, a smothering of the fire, which will break out the more afterwards. But a perfect cure can never be expected from God, till th•re be a National humiliation, and reformation.