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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

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you this day And you therein say That Repentance is the only remedy to turn away Gods judgements And that it is an excellent remedy a successefull remedy and an unfailing remedy These are your own expressions I shall therefore take the point for granted and having spent so much time in the explication I shall now proceed to the application If Repentance be the unum necessarium for England if it be the great Commandement Here is a black Bill of indictment against all those that live impenitently even in these daies That swear and will swear even in these daies That are drunkards and adulterers and will be so even in these daies That love their old superstitious practices as much as ever That willingly neglect holy duties or perform them negligent even in these bloudy daies In a word that live in any one known sin without Repentance I beseech all such as a Minister of God to hearken to the evill of their condition Not to repent at any time is a damnable sinne And indeed there is no sinne properly damns any man but the want of faith and repentance The sinne against the holy Ghost is therefore only unpardonable because God hath threatned never to give repentance to the man that commits it Heb. 6. 4. It is not the falling into the water drowns any man but the lying in the water So it is not the falling into sin that damns any man but the lying in sin without repentance Not to repent at any time is so damnable a sin that Austin thinks that the sin against the holy Ghost is nothing else but finalis impoenitentia Which though I conceive to be an errour yet I know this to be a truth That no sin damns any man to which finalis impoenitentia is not an adjunct But not to repent in such times as these are is a sin that hath a double aggravation upon it to make it exceeding sinfull For first these times are times of the Gospel times of knowledge times of the Spirit And though God winks at the times of ignorance yet he will not wink now To sinne against the Gospel is a greater sinne then to sinne against the Law Heb. 10. 28 29. For he that sins against the Gospel sins against more mercy then he that sins against the Law And Gospel sins will bring Gospel curses which are greater then Legall curses If any man sin against the Law he hath the Gospel to fly unto but if he sin against the Gospel what shall he then fly unto The Curse of the Gospel is Anathema Maranatha Not to repent now is to sin against the priviledge of the Covrnant of grace against the purchase and donation of Christ against the Incarnation death resurrection and exaltation of Jesus Christ as I shewed before And secondly These times are times of affliction and not only so but times wherein God afflicteth us with the sorest of his judgements And therefore not to repent in these daies is not only a Soul-destroying but a Land-destroying sin It is a sign thou lovest neither wife non childe nor houses nor lands nor soul nor body For there is no way to preserve all these from ruine but by repentance Not to repent in such times as these are is to harden our hearts above the hardnesse of a Iew We have a Proverb As hard-hearted as a Iew A sinner impenitent under affliction is more hard-hearted For the Jews sought God diligently and early and with great weeping and mourning in their affliction Hos. 5. 15. Psal. 78. 34. 1 Sam. 7. 6. Not to repent in such daies as these is to be worser then the very Heathen for not only the Heathen Ninevites but the Heathen Mariners in a storm every man cried to their God Now Mariners ordinarily are the worst of men Not to repent in these sad daies is to harden our hearts above the hardnesse of rocks as you shall see in the fifth of Ieremy and the third verse I have corrected them and they have not amended c. they have hardned their faces above the hardnesse of rocks as if he should have said If their hearts were not harder then rocks in times of affliction they would have repented Not to repent in these daies is the brand of a Reprobate 2 Chron. 28. 22. It is most emphatically expressed And in the time of this distresse he did trespasse yet more against the Lord This is that King Ahaez It is a brand for ever upon him And yet notwithstanding all this where shall we finde a penitent sinner It is an easie matter to finde a sinner but where shall we finde a penitent sinner even in these daies I beseech you tell me what sin have you left since these wars began Are you not as proud as ever Are you not as covetous Are you not as vain in your fashions as vild in your courses as ever What sinne have you left since you took your Covenant and swore to reform your lives This is a day wherein you must search your hearts I beseech you now in the presence of God return me an answer May not God say as it is in the eighth of Ieremiah and the sixth I have hearkned and heard c. and no man repented him of his wickednesse saying What have I done No man repents Do you Noble-men you Gentlemen you Common people do you repent Can the Lord hear you repent He hearkens he stands at your doors to listen whether you repent May not Iesus Christ upbraid the Parliament of England and the people of England as he doth the people of the Iews in the 11. of Matthew and the 20. Then Iesus began to upbraid the Cities wherein he had wrought many miracles because they repented not I do not come here to upbraid any man but my Lord and Master Jesus Christ doth upbraid you whosoever you are for whom God hath wrought such mighty wonders as he saith done for this Parliament if you do not repent The truth is And oh that I could speak it and you hear it with grief of heart we are now come to that passe that many men begin to scorn to hear a Sermon of Repentance It is a sign say some the Minister hath been idle that week or that his stock is spent when he comes to preach of such a common Theam as Repentance Men begin now to have itching ears to hearken after new and unknown truths which for the most part doe prove to be old errours And that which is yet more sad many godly people in City and Countrey that were wont in their private meetings to discourse about Repentance and how they should do to get a broken heart for sinne and how they should do to get power over their evill lives Now all their discourse is of this opinion or that opinion insomuch that unlesse God be mercifull to us we are come to that passe that we shall quickly dispute away all our repentance and all our faith