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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.
This is apparent out of the text: When Ezekiel wrote these words, the house of Israel was in the house of bondage, Captive in Babylon. Their condition was so desperate in regard of their misery, that Ezekiel compares them to dry bones in the grave, chap. 37. And God demands of Ezekiel: Can these dry 1bones live? He answers: O Lord God thou knowest: for my part I know not. Their estate was hopeless, and helpless: And it was as desperate in regard of sinfulness, as appears in the 17, 18, 19, 20. verses of this Chapter: When they were in their own land, they were as abominable before the Lord as the uncleanness of a menstruous 2woman: And when they came into Babylon, they were so wicked, as that the holy name of God was profaned by them while the Babylonians out of scorn & contempt said, These a•e the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land: And yet behold ⟨p. 4⟩God doth here promise to perform rich and unexpected mercies to such an undeserving Nation.
This is apparent out of the text: When Ezekiel wrote these words, the house of Israel was in the house of bondage, Captive in Babylon. Their condition was so desperate in regard of their misery, that Ezekiel compares them to dry bones in the grave, chap. 37. And God demands of Ezekiel: Can these drie 1bones live? He answers: O Lord God thou knowest: for my part I know not. Their estate was hopelesse, and helplesse: And it was as desperate in regard of sinfulnesse, as appears in the 17, 18, 19, 20. verses of this Chapter: When they were in their owne land, they were as abominable before the Lord as the uncleannesse of a menstruous 2woman: And when they came into Babylon, they were so wicked, as that the holy name of God was prophaned by them while the Babylonians out of scorn & contempt said, These a•e the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land: And yet behold ⟨p. 4⟩