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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.
Let this Doctrine be an other Looking-glass for this Nation; Englands mercies come from the God of England, we may truly say with David, If the Lord had not been on our side, if the Lord had 1not been on our side when men rose up against us, they had swallowed u• up quick, and the streams had gone over our souls: There is not only the finger of God, but the hand, even the right hand; the a•me, even the strong arm of Jehovah, the only wonder-working God in Englands mercies; and this will appear, If either you consider the mercies themselves; Or the time when we received them; Or the manner how we received them.
Let this Doctrine be an other Looking-glasse for this Nation; Englands mercies come from the God of England, we may truely say with David, If the Lord had not beene on our side, if the Lord had 1not beene on our side when men rose up against us, they had swallowed u• up quicke, and the streames had gone over our soules: There is not onely the finger of God, but the hand, even the right hand; the a•me, even the strong arme of Jehovah, the onely wonder-working God in Englands mercies; and this will appeare, If either you consider the mercies themselves; Or the time when we received them; Or the manner how we received them.
First, If we consider the mercies themselves, they are so super-superlative, as that we may say of them, as Protog•es did of a curious line which he saw drawn in a Painters shop; None but […] could draw this line; so none but a God could do such great things: These mercies declare the glory of God, and these deliverances sew forth his handy works; works worthy of a God.