A81152:52
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.
Once more; He doth not say, I shall not die, but live; to declare my own great works: Now the world shall know how successful I have been in this war; the Nations round about shall hear what my Generals and Chieftains have done; stories shall report to after ages, what gallant men Joab and Abishai have been. No, here is no mention of Himself or of These, his declaration runs all upon the works of God, I am not dead, but alive, or, I shall not die, but live; and declare the works of the Lord.
Once more; He doth not say, I shall not die, but live; to declare my own great works: Now the world shall know how succesfull I have been in this warre; the Nations round about shall hear what my Generals and Chieftains have done; stories shall report to after ages, what gallant men Joab and Abishai have been. No, here is no mention of Himself or of These, his declaration runs all upon the works of God, I am not dead, but alive, or, I shall not die, but live; and declare the works of the Lord.
The sum of all is, as if David had said:
The summe of all is, as if David had said:
I well perceive that the design of my enemies was to take away my life, or at least the comforts of my life; they thought a being in the world too much for me, and they were resolved a well being I should not have; but blessed be God, notwithstanding all their projects and oppositions, I am not dead: my life is whole in me still, and my state is well mended: my enemies have not had their wills on me, either to tear my soul from my body, or to violate the comforts of either. I am not dead, and more I am alive, I, and my friends, I, and they who have embarked in the same cause and run the same adventures with me: We all thrive and flourish, we are alive and lives-like. And me thinks from the mountain of this my present felicity