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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.
Thirdly, The Protestation against all Popery and Popish Innovations; next to that Protestation from which we bear the name of Protestants the greatest mercy; God hath brought a great deal of good to this Kingdom by it.
Thirdly, The Protestation against all Popery and Popish Innovations; next to that Protestation from which we beare the name of Protestants the greatest mercy; God hath brought a great deale of good to this Kingdome by it.
Fourthly, The great hope we have of a reformation of the Church and State. We may now say in some good measure, as it is Canticles 2. 11. The winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come: ⟨p. 6⟩You know the birds sing early in the morning at the break of day, and the flowers appear at the beginning of the Spring; Blessed be God, here is a fair spring towards, the day begins to dawn, Reformation begins to blossom, and we hope that the winter of adversity is past and gone, unless our new sins do provoke God to repent of the good he intends to do unto us, as he dealt with Saul for his new transgression, after he had thought to have established him King, 1 Sam. 13. 13, 14.
Fourthly, The great hope we have of a reformation of the Church and State. We may now say in some good measure, as it is Canticles 2. 11. The winter is past, the raine is over and gone, the flowers appeare on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come: ⟨p. 6⟩You know the birds sing early in the morning at the break of day, and the flowers appeare at the beginning of the Spring; Blessed be God, here is a faire spring towards, the day begins to dawne, Reformation begins to blossome, and we hope that the winter of adversitie is past and gone, unlesse our new sinnes do provoke God to repent of the good he intends to do unto us, as hee dealt with Saul for his new transgression, after hee had thought to have established him King,