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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.
Fifthly, to do all this, for such a sinful Nation as England: a Nation which hath engrossed all those sins for which God hath destroyed ⟨p. 8⟩other Nations, as namely, Contempt of the Gospel, Countenancing of Idolatry, loathing of Manna, Crying down Preaching […] the Idol of England, preaching against Preaching: Teaching for good doctrine, That Bishops and tithes are Jure Divino, and yet the Lords day is but Jure human•: crying up the holiness of Churches, and at the same time crying down the frequency of Preaching in these Churches: exalting the holiness of places, and at the same time depressing the holiness of persons, and the holiness of the Christian Sabbath: A nation guilty of Apostasy, Opposition to Reformation, Bitterness against the people of God, loaded with blood-guiltiness, blasphemies, adulteries, oppression, drunkenness, covetousness, and such like sins.
Fiftly, to doe all this, for such a sinfull Nation as England: a Nation which hath ingrossed all those sins for which God hath destroyed ⟨p. 8⟩other Nations, as namely, Contempt of the Gospell, Countenancing of Idolatry, loathing of Manna, Crying downe Preaching 〈…〉 the Idoll of England, preaching against Preaching: Teaching for good doctrine, That Bishops and tithes are Jure Divino, and yet the Lords day is but Jure human•: crying up the holines of Churches, and at the same time crying downe the frequency of Preaching in these Churches: exalting the holines of places, and at the same time depressing the holinesse of persons, and the holines of the Christian Sabbath: A nation guilty of Apostasie, Opposition to Reformation, Bitternesse against the people of God, loaded with blood-guiltinesse, blasphemies, adulteries, oppression, drunkennes, covetousnes, and such like sinnes.
Sixthly, And to do all this for such a Nation, and not for other Nations; Not for Germany, not for Ireland. Although we drink as deep of the cup of sin as they, yet that God should give us no cup, but a cup full of mercy to drink off; to make us like Goshen, when all other Protestant Nations are plagued as Egypt, O what a rare Circumstance is this!