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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, By contrary means: Thus Jonah was preserved from drowning by a Whale, and was kept vivus in sepulchro; thus Joseph was made Lord of Egypt by being cast into prison, and the blind man cured with clay and spittle, a way more likely to put out his eyes than to cure him.
Thirdly, By contrary meanes: Thus Jonah was preserved from drowning by a Whale, and was kept vivus in sepulchro; thus Joseph was made Lord of Egypt by being cast into prison, and the blinde man cured with clay and spittle, a way more likely to put out his eyes than to cure him.
Fourthly, Without any means at all: And thus God delivered his people out of Babylon; For when God turned again the captivity 1of Zion (saith David) they were like unto them that dream; now men know not what they shall dream of when they go to bed; we dream of strange things, we do not study our ⟨p. 10⟩dreams; such was their deliverance out of Babylon, a strange, uns•ught, […] for deliverance, just as a dream: now God doth all this, that it might appear, that deliverances come not from secondary causes, but from his own arm and power.
Fourthly, Without any meanes at all: And thus God delivered his people out of Babylon; For when God turned againe the captivity 1of Sion (saith David) they were like unto them that dreame; now men know not what they shal dreame of when they go to bed; we dreame of strange things, wee doe not study our ⟨p. 10⟩dreames; such was their deliverance out of Babylon, a strange, uns•ught, 〈…〉 for deliverance, just as a dreame: now God doth all this, that it might appeare, that deliverances come not from secondary causes, but from his owne arme and power.