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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.
1. The Devils never sinned against the blood of Jesus Christ; Christ never dyed for them, but he dyed for us. For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.1
1. The Devils never sinned against the blood of Jesus Christ; Christ never dyed for them, but he dyed for us. For verily hee tooke not on him the nature of Angels, but he tooke on him the seed of Abraham.1
2. The Devils never sinned against Gods patience. God was not patient towards them, but as soon as ever they sinned, he cast them into hell. Deus non expectabat Angelos, as Bernard saith: but we sin against the blood of Christ, and the patience and longsuffering of God, which is very great towards mankind.
2. The Devils never sinned against Gods patience. God was not patient towards them, but as soone as ever they sinned, hee cast them into hell. Deus non expectabat Angelos, as Bernard saith: but we sinne against the blood of Christ, and the patience and longsuffering of God, which is very great towards mankind.
3. The Devils never sinned against any example. For they were the first that sinned, and were made the first example; but we have had divers examples of Gods wrath against sin, the example of the Devils, and of the punishment of the old world, of Sodom and Gomorrah, & many hundred such like, and yet