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The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the…
The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipful the sheriffs, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-council of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemn League and Covenant was renewed by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.
London: printed by M.F. for Christopher Meredith, 1646
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.
The times wherein you live are indeed very troublesome: but be not discouraged; for it is foretold, Dan. 9. 25. That the wall of Jerusalem shall be re-built, even in troublous times. And let me say to you as Mordecai to Esther, Esther 4. 14. Who knoweth whether God hath not raised you up to be Mayor, to be Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common Council men for such a time as this is? Go on courageously, and God will trouble those that trouble you, and bring good to you, and to the Church out of these troubles. We read of the Pool of Bethesda, that when the water was troubled, then it became a healing water. The untroubled water, was an unhealing water. So will God do with you; he will make the troubled waters of the Sanctuary to become healing waters: Insomuch as we all shall say, Periissemus nisi periissemus; We should have been undone had we not been undone. Only be strong and of a good courage: I say it again, be strong and of a good courage. I say it the third time (for so did God to Joshua in 4 verses, Joshua 1. 6, 7, 8, 9. Be strong of a good courage. The Lord hath made you instruments to do much good for Church and State; the same God make you every day more and more instrumental.
The times wherein you live are indeed very troublesome: but be not discouraged; for it is foretold, Dan. 9. 25. That the wall of Jerusalem shall be re-built, even in troublous times. And let me say to you as Mordecai to Esther, Esther 4. 14. Who knoweth whether God hath not raised you up to be Mayor, to be Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Common Councell men for such a time as this is? Go on courageously, and God will trouble those that trouble you, and bring good to you, and to the Church out of these troubles. We reade of the Pool of Bethesda, that when the water was troubled, then it became a healing water. The untroubled water, was an unhealing water. So will God doe with you; he will make the troubled waters of the Sanctuary to become healing waters: Insomuch as we all shall say, Periissemus nisi periissemus; We should have been undone had we not been undone. Onely be strong and of a good courage: I say it again, be strong and of a good courage. I say it the third time (for so did God to Joshua in 4 verses, Joshuah 1. 6, 7, 8, 9. Be strong of a good courage. The Lord hath made you instruments to doe much good for Church and State; the same God make you every day more and more instrumentall.