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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.
That National mercies come from free grace, not from free will; 1Not from mans goodness, but Gods goodness. My desire is, that this Doctrine may be a third Looking-glass for England. If any shall ask, How it comes to pass, that England hath been like No•s A•ke, safe and secure, when all other Nations have been drowned with a sea of blood: Why England is like Gideons dry fleece, when all other Nations are like his wet fleece bedewed with miseries and lamentations: No other answer can be returned; but Gods free grace and mercy: I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy: May I not do what I will with mine own? May not a man that hath two debtors equally indebted to him, spare the one and not the other, as he pleaseth? Be it known unto you, O house of England, It is not for your sakes, for you are a stiffenecked people, but for my holy names sake.
That Nationall mercies come from free grace, not from free will; 1Not from mans goodnes, but Gods goodnes. My desire is, that this Doctrine may be a third Looking-glasse for England. If any shall aske, How it comes to passe, that England hath beene like No•s A•ke, safe and secure, when all other Nations have beene drowned with a sea of blood: Why England is like Gideons dry fleece, when all other Nations are like his wet fleece bedewed with miseries and lamentations: No other answer can be returned; but Gods free grace and mercy: I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy: May I not doe what I will with mine owne? May not a man that hath two debtors equally indebted to him, spare the one and not the other, as he pleaseth? Be it known unto you, O house of England, It is not for your sakes, for you are a stiffenecked people, but for my holy names sake.
- 1Doct. 3.