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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and we shall quickly dispute our selves out of our godlinesse and out of our Religion And that which is yet more sad Are there not some that preach against humiliation and that tell us that humiliation is but a back-door to heaven and a back-door to Christ Are there not some that tell us that Repentance is a legall Grace whereas I proved unto you even now that it is the very proper grace of the Gospel and the proper purchase of Christs bloud Are there not some that teach that God sees no sin in his elect children and that the very being of their sins is abolished out of Gods sight And that God is never displeased with his people though they fall into adultery or any other sin no not with a Fatherly displeasure And that God never chastiseth his people for any sinne no not with a Fatherly chastisement And that an unbeleeving and an impenitent sinner is as actually pardoned in Gods sight of all his sinnes as he is if he beleeves and repents And do not some of these now begin to grieve that they have grieved so much for their sinnes And that which is saddest of all are there not multitudes of people even in the City of London a City so well instructed carried away with these grace-destroying and Land-destroying Opinions Truly these are black signs that God intendeth to bring the Cloud of Bloud London-ward And that God intends that London should drink of the Cup of Bloud because London is so ready to he infected with the Cup of Errors and the cup of grace-destroying Opinions And for my part I am more afraid of this Cup then of the other more afraid of these divisions then of the Power and strength of the enemy for he grows strong by these divisions The Lord give us hearts to lay these things to heart and the Lord give us hearts to repent of these sins If this be the great Commandement of God to England that England should now repent now rather then ever now more then ever I beseech you let us all subscribe to the obedience of this Text and let this Commandement be written this day in every one of our hearts Oh that the Word of God and the Sword of God might preach this doctrine again and again and oh that the Lord would make it to take deep impression in every one of our souls Remember the Motives These are the times of the Gospel wherein God holds forth such arguments to move us to repentance which no other Religion can hold forth arguments drawn from the incarnation of Christ from the resurrection of the dead and the day of judgement These are times of Knowledge these are times of the Spirit These are times of bloud now God thunders from heaven now God presents you with a terrible Argument to move you to repentance Now God hath taken away all your Hindrances that did hinder you from repentance And there is no way to remove the man-devouring sword but by repentance and repentance is an infallible way These are the Motives and Motives sufficient to make the very stones in the Church to repent if they had a capacity to do it sufficient to make the Devils in hell to repent if they had had the happinesse to have been put into a possibility of salvation upon their repentance But the devils are not so happy For the truth is repentance is not only a duty but a happinesse It is a happiness that there is such a gate as repentance to get into heaven by Christ Jesus shed his bloud as I told you to make this door The devils have no such door And it is a happinesse also that God will for Christs sake accept of a sinner upon his repentance It is vain in mans Court for a murderer or a thief to pleade his repentance But it is not so in Gods Court Blessed be God that after our shipwrack by Adam there is such a plank as repentance for a poor sinner to swim to heaven upon And this is another mighty Argument to perswade you to repent He that refuseth to repent refuseth to be happy But now give me leave to draw down this Doctrine to all sorts of people according to the words of my Text But now God commandeth all men every where to repent First All men And then Every where All men 1. Repentance it is not only a garment for poor men to put on but God cals the rich men of the world to repent God cals the great men of the world to repentance Say unto the King and Queen Humble your selves And Oh that God would speak that word to the King and Queen this day that the Lord would command them to repent Great Manasseh he was a great sinner and did greatly humble himself 2 Chron. 33. 12. And the great King of Nineveh put on sackcloth and humbled himself he and his Nobles David King of Israel made his very bed to swim with tears for his sins Great men sin against a God that is greater then they and Great men must appear before the Great God at the Great Day of Judgement There is a great day of judgement a terrible day of Judgement wherein the great men of the world and the Kings of the earth and the rich men and the mighty men shall desire for the mountains to cover them and to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6. 15 16 17. Great men doe more hurt by their sins then others and therefore God will punish them more then others and therefore they are to repent more then others ' Potentes potentèr torquebuntur The truth is Hell is provided on purpose for great men I mean such as are greater in sinne then in greatnesse otherwise Greatnesse is an ornament when it is joyned with goodnesse but for those that are wickedly great and greatly wicked great men Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is provided Isa. 30. 33. And therefore God cals Great men Princes Noblemen and Gentlemen to repent 2. Repentance is not only an Antidote for Drunkards Whoremongers and Oppressors c. But God cals them that live Civilly and that are morally good to repent You must repent because you pretend to make conscience of doing that which is just to man but you make no conscience to doe that which is just to God to give him his due in the duties of the first Table You must repent because either you constantly neglect holy duties or you are constantly negligent in holy duties which both are great iniquities You must repent because at the best you are but Negatively good There is no positive goodnesse in you Though you abstain from evill yet you do not do good though you do not swear great Oaths yet you do not speak holily And every tree that brings not forth good fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the fire You must repent because you do all good duties either from naturall