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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. I will briefly name some special and heroical Uses, which we are to make of Gods mercies, besides this use in the Text.
2. I will briefly name some speciall and heroicall Uses, which we are to make of Gods mercies, besides this use in the Text.
1. Do something, O house of England, for the honour of the Lords day, which hath been much profaned, not only in our practises, but in our Doctrines. Christ Jesus hath two days, The day of the Lord, which is the day of judgement, And the Lords day. If you look to appear with comfort at the day of the Lord, honour the Lords day; There is a day of the Lord, for those that abuse the Lords day. Do something to make this day more honourable by way of spiritual satisfaction.
1. Do something, O house of England, for the honour of the Lords day, which hath beene much prophaned, not onely in our practises, but in our Doctrines. Christ Jesus hath two dayes, The day of the Lord, which is the day of judgement, And the Lords day. If you looke to appeare with comfort at the day of the Lord, honour the Lords day; There is a day of the Lord, for those that abuse the Lords day. Do something to make this day more honourable by way of spirituall satisfaction.
2. Do something to purge the Land more and more of the innocent blood of the Martyrs in Queen Mary's days, by the Laws that were then established. Oh that in our public Fasts a ⟨p. 49⟩clause might be interlaced, To command the Land to be humbled for that bloody sin, that so the Nation might be freed from the guilt of that blood. This will be an heroical work, worthy of a people endeared to God by such mercies.