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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.
It would no doubt be a great honour to this Kingdom, if it had a better Homer to Chronicle the passages of these late years: Give me leave to name, and but to name some few of them.
It would no doubt be a great honour to this Kingdome, if it had a better Homer to Chronicle the passages of these late yeares: Give mee leave to name, and but to name some few of them.
First, The bappy Pacification between Scotland and England; God hath freed us from Civill wars, which of all wars are most uncivil; from intestine wars, wars that would have eaten out our own bowels; from wars of Protestant with Protestant, which of all wars are most cruel: Odia proximorum sunt acerrima.
First, The bappy Pacification between• Scotland and England; God hath freed us from Civill warres, which of all warres are most uncivill; from intestine warres, warres that would have eaten out our owne bowels; from warres of Protestant with Protestant, which of all warres are most cruell: Odia proximorum sunt acerrima.
Secondly, The mighty turn that God hath made in this Kingdom for the better; for we were all upon the Tropics turning to Popery, as some that are most moderate do now confess: The ill affected party had got a mighty faction, men in authority & power; pits were digged for the Righteous; Gallowses provided for Mordecai, because he would not bow to Haman; dens of Lions for Daniel, because he would not leave praying; fiery furnaces for the three children, because they would not worship the golden Image; dungeons for Jeremiah, because he would preach the truth with boldness; We were like firebrands in the fire; like birds in the snare; but God Almighty hath made a blessed turn of things for the better: the enemies are thrown into the dens & dungeons they prepared for the godly, the pits they digged for others they themselves are fallen into; the enemies of the Church hang down their heads, and the godly begin to lift them up; Our Isaacs are delivered, and the Rams are caught in the bush, and as the Wiseman saith, The Righteous