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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.
4. Add lastly, if God should show us mercy, this mercy will be accursed unto us, if we be not humbled and reformed. A mercy abused is no mercy. Mercy turned to sin, takes away the comfort of the mercy, and turneth the mercy into a curse; As the rain, that falls upon the Sea, is made salt by the salt water. And that which falls upon moorish grounds, breeds Toads and Serpents: So all the goodness and mercies of God falling upon wicked, impenitent, and irreformed hearts, breed nothing but the ver• •f sin and iniquity. Mercy is like the water of jealousy, of which •e read Numbers the fifth: If the woman was innocent, it made her fruitful, but if guilty it made her rot. So the mercies of 1God if we be good, make us more fruitful. It is Maximum & aptissimum motivum & medium obedientiae. But when they fall upon a wicked spirit, they make him the more rotten, and the more wicked. The Lord bless these considerations unto you.
4. Adde lastly, if God should shew us mercy, this mercy will be accursed unto us, if we be not humbled and reformed. A mercy abused is no mercy. Mercy turned to sinne, takes away the comfort of the mercy, and turneth the mercy into a curse; As the raine, that falls upon the Sea, is made salt by the salt water. And that which falls upon moorish grounds, breeds Toads and Serpents: So all the goodnesse and mercies of God falling upon wicked, impenitent, and irreformed hearts, breed nothing but the ver• •f sinne and iniquity. Mercy is like the water of jealousie, of which •e read Numbers the fifth: If the woman was innocent, it made her fruitfull, but if guilty it made her rot. So the mercies of 1God if we be good, make us more fruitfull. It is Maximum & aptissimum motivum & medium obedientiae. But when they fall upon a wicked spirit, they make him the more rotten, and the more wicked. The Lord blesse these considerations unto you.
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