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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32016	Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1642 (1642)	Wing C253A; ESTC R19544	47,198	60

Christ to send the Christian Religion among us Christ made haste to convert England Some say that James the brother of John some S●…mon Ze●…tes some that Peter and Paul but all agree that Joseph of A●…imathea preached the Gospell here and here he died And that which makes much for the mercy of God to this happy Island the first Christian King that ever was in the world was King Lucius a Britaine and the first Christian Emperour was borne in England even Constantine the Great And when wee came afterwards to be wofully drowned with Popish heresies and Idolatry the first King that ever shooke off subjection to Antichrist after he was discovered by Luther was King Henry the eighth and the first King that ever wrote in Print that the Pope was Antichrist was King James of famous memory God hath made us not only Protestants but reformed Protestants We have enjoyed the Gospell of peace and the peace of the Gospell for almost an hundred yeares In this Century God hath multiplied deliverances upon deliverances we have had our 88. and our Gunpowder deliverances but as Benjamins messe did exceed all his brethrens and as Josephs shease was lifted up above the sheaves of his brethren so the mercies of these two last yeares do farre exceed all the mercies that ever this Nation did receive since the first Reformation mercies that deserve to be ingraven in every one of our hearts And if Achilles was happy in Alexanders judgement because he had a Homer to record his fame It would no doubt be a great honour to this Kingdome if it had a better Homer to Chronicle the passages of these late yeares Give mee leave to name and but to name some few of them First The bappy Pacification between●… Scotland and England God hath freed us from Civill warres which of all warres are most uncivill from intestine warres warres that would have eaten out our owne bowels from warres of Protestant with Protestant which of all warres are most cruell Odia proximorum sunt acerrima Secondly The mighty turne that God hath made in this Kingdome for the better for wee were all upon the Tropicks turning to Popery as some that are most moderate do now confesse The ill affected party had got a mighty faction men in authority power pits were digged for the Righteous Gallowses provided for Mordecai because hee would not bow to Haman dens of Lions for Daniel because he would not leave praying fiery furnaces for the three children because they would not worship the golden Image dungeons for Jeremy because he would preach the truth with boldnesse We were like firebrands in the fire like birds in the snare but God Almighty hath made a blessed turne of things for the better the enemies are throwne into the dens dungeons they prepared for the godly the pits they digged for others they themselves are fallen into the enemies of the Church hang downe their heads and the godly begin to lift them up Our Isaacs are delivered and the Rammes are caught in the bush and as the Wiseman saith The Righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked commeth in his stead The wicked shall be a ransome for the righteous and the transgressours for the upright Thirdly The Protestation against all Popery and Popish Innovations next to that Protestation from which we beare the name of Protestants the greatest mercy God hath brought a great deale of good to this Kingdome by it Fourthly The great hope we have of a reformation of the Church and State We may now say in some good measure as it is Canticles 2. 11. The winter is past the raine is over and gone the flowers appeare on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come You know the birds sing early in the morning at the break of day and the flowers appeare at the beginning of the Spring Blessed be God here is a faire spring towards the day begins to dawne Reformation begins to blossome and we hope that the winter of adversitie is past and gone unlesse our new sinnes do provoke God to repent of the good he intends to do unto us as hee dealt with Saul for his new transgression after hee had thought to have established him King 1 Sam. 13. 13 14. Fifthly The many grievous yoakes that God hath freed us from so many as that the day would hardly suffice to repeat them God hath delivered us from Civill yoakes and from Spirituall from Monopolies from the late Canons mounted up against all good men but now turned against themselves from the Star-Chamber and from the terrible High Commission that wrack and torture of conscience and conscientious men which was appointed like the dogs in the Capito●…l to scare away theeves but hath for the most part barked onely at honest men from those two terrible Oathes the Oath ex Officio and the Oath of the late Canons whereby the Prelaticall party thought for ever to rivet themselves into the Kingdone and to be above the hurt of the King and Parliament this Oath is now made the great Canon to shoot them downe Sixthly The discovery of the secret underminers that have for these many yeares laboured to blow up our Religion and under the name of Puritan to scare all men from being Protestants God hath done to us as he did to Ezekiel he hath opened a doore in the wall to behold all the trecheries that are plotted in secret there is nothing devised against Church or State but God raises up one E●…isha or other to discover it in so much as we may say of England as Balaam of the Israelites Surely there is no ●…nchantment against England neither is there any divination against the Houses of Parliament Here are six mercies Now there are also divers circumstances with which these mercies are apparelled that are as remarkeable as the mercies themselves as we say of some things that the curious workmanship of them is more worth than the things themselves as in a Watch or Clocke so these circumstances are as glorious and as observable if not more than the mercies themselves and these are likewise six First for God to doe all this for England and to doe it in a legall way in a Parliamentary way This is the first Circumstance It was that which our enemies did much threaten that wee should never see Parliament more but blessed be God we doe see it to our great joy and comfort It was the happines of England that in her first reformation she was acted by authority Our reformation began from the head and not from the feet And it is now no little blessing That this second reformation beginnes from the heads of our Tribes in the old and good way of a Parliament and not by a popular tumult Secondly to doe it in a peaceable way It is with us as it was in the building of Solomons Temple Here is no noise of hammers or axes but all in a quiet