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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

Name: Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliation
Author: Edmund Calamy

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 ...

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1642

[6], 50 p. · 23k words · Wing C253A · ESTC R19544

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A SERMON PREACHED AT A FAST Before the Honourable House of COMMONS.A SERMON PREACHED AT A FAST Before the Honorable House of COMMONS.

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.

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Seventhly, let us make these mercies as so many Cordials to ¹comfort us in all distresses: and if God at any time should bring this Nation into new straits and dangers; Let us say as Manoahs wife did unto Manoah, If the Lord did intend to destroy England, ²surely he would never have bestowed so many mercies upon England.

Seventhly, let us make these mercies as so many Cordials to ¹comfort us in all distresses: and if God at any time should bring this Nation into new straites and dangers; Let us say as Manoahs wife did unto Manoah, If the Lord did intend to destroy England, ²surely he would never have bestowed so many mercies upon England.

1Cordials of comfortCordialls of comfort
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Eighthly, let us make these mercies as so many means, and instruments ¹of service; Let us serve God with our health, wealth, and parts; Let us serve him, Cheerfully, liberally, thankfully, fruitfully, lest God send upon us that curse threatened, Deut. 28. 47, 48. ⟨p. 16⟩Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, in want of all things: And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he hath destroyed thee: Let us rend our hearts and not our garments, and turn to the Lord, for he is gracious:

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666

Place

London

Bookseller

Christopher Meredith

Year

1642

Size

[6], 50 p.

Words

22,916

Catalogue

Wing C253A · ESTC R19544

Text

EEBO-TCP A32016

Passages

171

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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