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A31927	Englands antidote against the plague of civill warre presented in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons on their late extraordinary solemn fast, October 22, 1644 / by Edmund Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1652 (1652)	Wing C234; ESTC R5769	41,464	54

that Musick in Gods service though it may please the ears of men yet it is unpleasing in the ears of God And that the best Musick that will please God is the sighs and groans of a bleeding heart for sinne This we all know and therefore God will not wink at our Superstition The times of ignorance God winked at but now under the Gospel he cals you all to repent For we know that Repentance is as necessary as heaven And that it is one of the first principles of the Doctrines of Christ Heb. 6. 1 2. And that it is one of the vitall parts of a Christian without which a Christian is but a carkasse of a Christian As the soul is necessary to the life of the body so repentance is necessary to the life of a Christian it is as the very soul of a Christian a Christian is no true Christian without it We know this And therefore God will not wink at an impenitent sinner in these daies We know that there are but two waies to heaven either by innoceney or by Penitency And he that will look to go to heaven by innocency must finde a ladder by himself to climbe to heaven by There is no way to heaven since the fall of Adam but by repentance And therefore Tertullian saith he was nulli rei natus nisi paenitentiae born for nothing else but to repent This we all know and therefore not to repent now is a sinne that God will never suffer Besides this 2. We have the help of Gods Spirit for the Ministery of the Gospel is the Ministery of the Spirit and God hath promised to pour out his Spirit upon all flesh in the times of the Gospel And therefore God looks we should be more spirituall in his worship then the Iews were And not to repent under the Gospel is not only to sinne against the Minister but it is to sinne against the Spirit of God Now the summe of all the first Argument is this That he that lives under the Gospel and lives impenitently sins against the Birth Death Resurrection and Exaltation of Iesus Christ sins against the greatest arguments that God can use to perswade him to repent sins against the greatest helps that God can afford him to repent He is a sinner left without all excuse He is a Monster in Christianity And the hottest place in hell is too cold for him All this is Pauls reason and it is common to us with the Athenians But now give me leave to set before you Englands reason why God would have us now especially to repent A reason proper to England in regard of the sad condition that England is now in And the reason is this Because these are times of warre and bloudshed this is the day of Iacobs trouble And therefore God doth especially call for repentance in these daies This appears Ioel 2. 12. Therefore also now saith the Lord turn unto me speaking of times of famine as some think or times of war as others think therefore now turn unto me with all your hearts with fasting weeping and with mourning And there are four Reasons that England doth present before you why that these miserable times should perswade you to repentance more then ever before The first is Because God doth now use such an Argument to perswade us to Repentance the like to which he never yet did use since England was England Gods Argument is this Repont O ye Lords and Commons or else I 'le give you over to Beggery Repent or else I will give you over to Popery I 'le give you over to slavery Repent or else I 'le plunder your houses I 'le give up your wives and daughters to be defloured Repent or else I 'le burn your Cities Repent or else I 'le remove the Gospel from you And not to repent when God uses such Arguments is a sin that God will hardly pardon as you shall reade in the 22. of Isaiah 12 13 14. In that day the Lord called for weeping and mourning speaking of a time of warre and baldnesse and sackcloth c. But behold joy and slaying of Oxen c. and it was revealed in mine ears c. Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die that is it shall hardly ever be pardoned And then secondly Because God hath now taken away all those Hinderances and Impediments that did heretofore lie in your way to hinder you from repentance and therefore now God especially cals you to repentance There are five Obstructions that hinder many from repentance The hope of long life Inconsideration the Patience and long suffering of God the abundance of flattering Preachers and the abundance of wealth prosperity jollity and feasting c. Now God hath taken away all these Impediments The first Impediment is the hope of Long life This is a mighty Giant to hinder most people from speedy repentance every man thinks he may live one day longer and therefore every man deferres his repentance one day longer But now God hath removed this stumbling-block There is no man can hope for long life now These are killing dayes These are dying dayes These are dayes wherein every man should carry his life in his hand and the grace of repentance in his heart It is a sign of an Atheist not to repent now A second Impediment is Inconsideration And therefore it is said expresly Ier. 8. 6. I hearkened and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickednesse saying What have I done For did a sinner seriously consider the unexpressible woe and misery he brings upon himself by not repenting what a sad condition it is to be eternal fuel to everlasting fire and to be deprived of the beatificall vision Did he further consider the goodnesse and kindenesse of God towards him every day notwithstanding his daily provocations and what an unkindenesse it is to sin against such a God Did he consider the affronts and indignities that are offered to God by sinners And also the ineffable love of Jesus Christ towards him in dying a cursed death to free him from hell and damnation And did he seriously and conscientiously dwell upon these thoughts this would through Gods assistance quickly winde up his soul to a right Repentance But these truths lye like a sealed Letter like a Treasure lockt up like fire under the embers without any use or benefit for want of Consideration And therefore David saith Psa. 119. So I considered my waies and turned my feet unto thy testimonies And Peter when he remembred Christs speech and had weighed it as the word signifieth he went out and wept bitterly Mark 11. 72. But our God hath taken away this impediment in a great measure Now people have time and leasure to search and try their waies And this is the proper businesse of such times Ecclis 7. 14. In the day of adversity consider When the Prodigall Childe was in

That Repentance is the duty of these daies Repentance is the unum necessarium for England Repentance is the primum maximum mandatum for England But now God commands all men every where to repent And there are two Reasons why that God commands England to repent now rather then ever before The first Reason is common to England with the Athenians The second reason is proper to England The first reason is Pauls reason The second reason is Englands reason The first reason why England should now repent and why this duty is now so necessary is because that now are the times of the Gospel and not only so but times wherein the Gospel is preached with more purity and power then ever and therefore God commands us all to repent now more then ever And there are divers reasons why that they that liue under the Gospel should repent more then other people and rather then other people 1. Because Repentance is one of the first lessons that the Gospel teacheth And therefore Iohn Baptist that was a harbinger to the Gospel came preaching the doctrine of Repentance and saying Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand Mat. 3. 2. And the first Sermon that Christ preached was a Sermon of Repentance Mat. 4. 17. From that time Iesus began to preach and to say Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand And the first lesson that Peter taught the Iews Act. 2. 28. was to repent And therefore it is called Heb. 6. 1. one of the principles of the doctrine of Christ And he must needs be an arrant dunce in the School of the Gospel that hath been twenty thirty or fourty years in the School of the Gospel and hath not yet learned the first lesson of the Gospel 2. Because Repentance is not only one of the first but one of the chiefest lessons of the Gospel For for this very end and purpose Christ came down from heaven and was made man that he might preach repentance as you may reade Luk. 5. 31. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance 3. Because Repentance as it is one of the first and chiefest lessons of the Gospel so it is one of the chiefest purchases and priviledges of the Gospel As Christ came from heaven to preach repentance so he shed his bloud to purchase repentance And therefore he bids his Disciples to go and preach repentance in his Name that is as his purchase Luk. 24. 47. Repentance is a back-door to escape Gods wrath by made up of Christs bloud A door that the Angels had not nor Adam till Christ had purchased it for him The Covenant of Works admits not of it Repentance is the proper priviledge of the Covenant of Grace 4. Because Repentance is one of the chiefest gifts of the Gospel For as Christ became man to preach Repentance and shed his bloud to purchase repentance so he is also risen from the dead and exalted at Gods right hand to be a Prince and Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sins Act. 5. 31. Hence I gather That to be under the Gospel and to live impenitently is to sinne against the incarnation of Christ it is to sin against the bloud-shed of Christ it is to sin against the resurrection and exaltation of Christ it is to sin against the purchase and donation of Christ and against the chief priviledges of a Christian But then again God requires that you that live under the Gospel that you especially should repent more then other nations because the Gospel doth hold forth two powerfull Arguments and Motives to perswade you to repent such as no other Religion can hold forth The first Motive is The consideration of Gods infinite love to mankinde in sending Jesus Christ to die a cursed death to save all that beleeve and repent from hell and damnation This is in a kinde an omnipotent Argument to perswade a sinner to repentance Was Iesus Christ crucified for me and shall I crucifie him by my bloudy oaths and blasphemies c. Was the Lord Iesus Christ broken for me and shall not my heart be broken for my sins against him this is instar mille argumentorum There is a story that when Caesar was killed in the Senate by Brutus and Cassius Anthony the Senator took his bloudy Robe and carried it to the Market-stead and shewed it to the people Behold saith he the bloudy Robe of your quondam Emperour And thereby he did provoke them to the revenge of his death And certainly the contemplation of the bloud-shed of Jesus Christ is an unanswerable argument to constrain us to repent of our sins against Christ He that would repent aright of sinne let him go to Mount Calvary and there he shall learn two lessons that no other Religion can teach him First Mount Calvary will teach him that God is so displeased with sin that nothing but the death of a God could satisfie the wrath of God for sin Mount Calvary will teach him that all that Christ did there suffer must be suffered by him to all eternity if he doth not repent This is an omnipotent argument if God makes it effectual But besides this motive the Gospel holds forth as in a clear glasse a second motive which is The consideration of the eternall Iudgement This is an Argument that Paul brings in the verse after my Text But now God commands all men to repent because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath ordained c. There will come a terrible day of judgement and in that day if there be any one sin unrepented of the devils shall assoon be saved as you This is a mighty Argument to perswade you to repentance The least sinne will damn you in that day without repentance the greatest sin cannot hurt you in that day if you repent But besides these Motives the Gospel doth also afford two great Helps to work repentance which no other Religion can afford and therefore we that live under the Gospel we must repent rather then other The Gospel affords the help of Knowledge and the help of Grace First 1. The Gospel affords the help of Knowledge for God hath promised that in the times of the Gospel all men shall know him from the least to the greatest we that live under the Gospel know that Drunkennesse and Adultery and Swearing are the works of hell and will bring to hell we know this and therefore though God winked at the times of ignorance God will not wink at us if we be guilty of these sins We that live under the Gospel know that the worship of God the more spirituall it is the more beautifull it is in the eyes of God who is a Spirit And that the outward pomp of Gods service is an attire more fit for the Whore of Babylon then for the modest Spouse of Christ And