A81152:65
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.
It is a mercy not to live in times, when God visits a people only to punish their sin; and therefore some of the good Kings of Judah, were promised that they should die, before such troubles were borne: even Balaam (Numb. 24. 23.) prophesying of the sore calamities of divers Nations, breaths out in compassion, Alas, who shall live when God doth this? Who would desire to live in such a time? The righteous is taken away from the evil to come (Isa. 57. 1.) But to live in times, when God visits a people, for the purging of their sins, this is a great mercy. To live in such times, and to get through them, though but with an escape, is a mercy. But to get through ⟨p. 10⟩those times with a conquest, is a great mercy. It is an honour to live in troubles which overcome us, while we are contending for truth and righteousness: But to live in troubles, where contending for truth and righteousness we overcome, is our happiness. To be in deaths often is an honourable life; but often to conquer deaths is an Heroical life.
It is a mercy not to live in times, when God visits a people only to punish their sinne; and therefore some of the good Kings of Judah, were promised that they should die, before such troubles were borne: even Balaam (Numb. 24. 23.) prophecying of the sore calamities of divers Nations, breaths out in compassion, Alas, who shall live when God doth this? Who would desire to live in such a time? The righteous is taken away from the evil to come (Isa. 57. 1.) But to live in times, when God visits a people, for the purging of their sins, this is a great mercy. To live in such times, and to get thorow them, though but with an escape, is a mercy. But to get thorow ⟨p. 10⟩those times with a conquest, is a great mercy. It is an honour to live in troubles which overcome us, while we are contending for truth and righteousnesse: But to live in troubles, where contending for truth and righteousnesse we overcome, is our happinesse. To be in deaths often is an honourable life; but often to conquer deaths is an Heroicall life.