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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.
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!
Sixthly, And to doe all this for such a Nation, and not for other Nations; Not for Germany, not for Ireland. Although we drinke as deepe of the cup of sinne as they, yet that God should give us no cup, but a cup full of mercy to drinke off; to make us like Goshen, when all other Protestant Nations are plagued as Egypt, O what a rare Circumstance is this!
These mercies, and these circumstances are so great and so wonderful, as that, if I had as many tongues as hairs on my head, they would not all suffice to set out the praises of God for them: And indeed I can hardly forbear from turning this day of humiliation, into a day of thanksgiving. Surely God requires a thousand thousand Hallelujahs; And that we should bless him upon a thousand stringed Instrument: Here is fuel enough. The Lord kindle a great fire in every one of our hearts, to burn out all our lusts: to inflame our cold hearts with the love of such a God: and to make us ashamed and confounded that ever we should sin against him.
These mercies, and these circumstances are so great and so wonderfull, as that, if I had as many tongues as haires on my head, they would not all suffice to set out the praises of God for them: And indeed I can hardly forbeare from turning this day of humiliation, into a day of thanksgiving. Surely God requires a thousand thousand Hallelujahs; And that we should blesse him upon a thousand stringed Instrument: Here is fewell enough. The Lord kindle a great fire in every one of our hearts, to burne out all our lusts: to infiame our cold hearts with the love of such a God: and to make us ashamed and confounded that ever wee should sinne against him.