A81152:13
Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties
Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : showed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Council of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their public thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great success of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus near the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.Englands plus ultra both of hoped mercies, and of required duties : shewed in a sermon preached to the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord Major, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Councell of London, together with the Assembly of Divines, at Christ-Church, April 2, 1646 : being the day of their publike thanksgiving to Almighty God for the great successe of the Parliaments army in the West, especially in Cornwall, under the conduct of his excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax / by Joseph Caryl, minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer the bridge, London, and a member of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by G.M. for John Rothwell, 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.
When that holy Prophet fore-told the sorrows and ill usage which the Son of God should find among sinful men in the days of his flesh, he cries out, Who shall declare his Generation (Isa. 53. 8.) which many understand of his eternal, some of his Generation in the fullness of time, the mystery whereof was beyond words: Others of his holy seed, his cross being fruitful, and his death giving life to an innumerable Generation. But besides all these we may with good probability interpret the word Generation *for the time or age in which Christ was born, lived and died. And then the meaning is: whose tongue shall be able to speak, or pen to write the History of His Age? Where ⟨image 3⟩shall Rhetoric enough be found to draw out or delineate with lively colours, the malice and enmity, the plots and conspiracies, the villainies and cruelties contrived and acted against that innocent Lamb Jesus Christ: Together with his most glorious victories and triumphs over them all? Who shall declare his Generation?
WHen that holy Prophet fore-told the sorrows and ill usage which the Sonne of God should finde among sinfull men in the days of his flesh, he cries out, Who shall declare his Generation (Isa. 53. 8.) which many understand of his eternal, some of his Generation in the fulnes of time, the mystery whereof was beyond words: Others of his holy seed, his crosse being fruitfull, and his death giving life to an innumerable Generation. But besides all these we may with good probability interpret the word Generation *for the time or age in which Christ was born, lived and died. And then the meaning is: whose tongue shall be able to speak, or pen to write the History of His Age? Where ⟨image 3⟩shall Rhetorique enough be found to draw out or delineate with lively colours, the malice and enmity, the plots and conspiracies, the villanies and cruelties contrived and acted against that innocent Lamb Jesus Christ: Together with his most glorious victories and triumphs over them all? Who shall declare his Generation?