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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

your fastings And then again Thirdly there is a great deal of Fasting but there is no Reformation a great deal of talk of reformation but there is no practice of reformation we have a great many Covenants of Reformation but there is no performance of our Covenants We swear to reform but we do not reform we fast one day and feast the devil all the moneth after many times Do we do as the King of Nineveh did and as his Nobles and people did they cried unto the Lord and turned every man from his evill way but because there is no such turning from sin amongst us because there is no reformation that is the reason why our fasting doth no more good Beloved in the Lord suffer me to speak my minde plainly Could I see the Parliament of England do as the King of Nineveh did and all the Nobles of Nineveh did could I see them all appear here and lying down in dust and ashes weeping and mourning and lamenting before the Lord and humbling their souls in good earnest and every man turning from his iniquity and from the violence in his hand such a fasting day would save the lives of three Kingdoms such tears would prevent the effusion of the bloud of thousands such a day would be loud musick in the ears of God The Lord make this day to be such a day Thus much I thought good to say in reference to the generall expression in the Text But now God commands All men Secondly But then it is added in the Text God commands all men every where that is another expression to repent If we must repent anywhere we must repent every where for First Because God fils every where If thou canst commit a sin where God is not there I 'le give thee leave not to repent but if God be every where we must repent every where because God is every where And then again Secondly Because some devil or other is every where I do not say that the devil is every where but some devil or other is every where and therefore we must repent every where because our Accuser is every where and our Judge is every where And then again Thirdly Because death will meet us every where If there be any place wherein thou art exempted from death I 'le give thee leave not to repent there but death will meet with thee every where and therefore God commands all men every where to repent And then again Fourthly Because we must give an account for all the Actions that we do every where God at the day of judgement will ask thee an account of that that thou hast done anywhere and therefore we must repent every where And then Fifthly Because we sin every where we sin in our Churches and therefore God cals for a Church-repentance We sin in our Parliament therefore God cals for a Parliament-repentance We sin in our Sacraments therefore God cals for a Sacrament-repentance We sin in our beds in our shops and therefore God cals for repentance in our shops and in our beds God cals to the Assembly of Ministers to repent of their sinnes God cals not only to the people at Oxford to repent but to the people at Westminster to repent God not only cals to the pretended Parliament at Oxford but the true Parliament at Westminster to repent God cals all men every where to repent And then again Sixthly Because Gods judgements are every where Gods judgements fill every Town every City every Countrey the Sword devours every where and therefore God commands us to repent every where Thus much for the second exhortation There is one Question yet behinde which must have an answer before I can conclude Some will say What is that Repentance which is the unum necessarium for England and which is The great Commandment of God for England Is there any man that doth not repent There is much talk indeed in the world and much dispute about Repentance and much profession of repentance And every man saith he repenteth But I fear that most people mistake the nature of true repentance and so are cheated of their salvation by a rotten and false repentance There is a threefold mistake of repentance First Some think it an ominous thing to repent and judge of repentance as some ridiculously judge of making their Wils who refuse to make their Wils in their health as thinking it an omen and presage of their death So many refuse to repent in health because they think it a work of sicknesse and if they should do it in health it would hasten their death This opinion is not worth confuting Secondly Some think it an easie thing to repent and therefore deal with repentance as one saith as countrey-people do with Physicians who never send for them till they be breathing out their last breath So many never think of Repentance till they be upon their death-bed and then they conceive that these five words Lord have mercy upon me are as efficacious to send them to heaven as the Papists conceit that their five words of consecration are able to transubstantiate the bread in the Sacrament into the body of Christ Most people think it very easie to repent It is but repenting saith the sinner But this But is a hard But It requires the omnipotent power of God to work repentance 2 Tim. 2. 25. Therefore it is called a rending of the heart Joel 2. 13. which is a hard work And it is likewise called a ploughing up of the fallow ground of our hearts It is a Transmutation a change of the whole man from sin to God which is no easie work Thirdly and especially Most people think they repent when they do not And I beleeve that the reason why so many goe to hell is not so much for want of repentance as for want of a right repentance We reade Act. 11. 18. of a repentance unto life and 2 Cor. 7. 10. of a repentance never to be repented on where note there is a repentance which is not unto life and a repentance to be repented on Repentance is a rare jewell But as there is no jewel but it may be counterfeit so there is no grace but it may be counterfeited As there is a counterfeit faith a dead carcasse of faith so there is a bastardly repentance poenitentia spuria non genuina or as Austin cals it Poenitentia infructuosa And as a counterfeit jewell is nothing worth no more is a counterfeit repentance And as many are undone by the buying of a counterfeit jewel so there are many in hell through the mistake of this jewel that yet thought it may be they had repented aright and so might all their friends possibly think likewise Now therefore the great question will be What is that repentance unto life that repentance never to be repented on which if I have I may assure my self that I am in the state of salvation For the answer to this I will briefly shew 1. What is not that repentance which is

a hearty-abhorrency and detestation of these sins Now the Lord cals upon you this day to do thus And to do thus more then others you that are Gentlemen because these sins in you are more scandalous and do more hurt both by Imitation and by Imputation They doe more hurt by Imitation because great men are like unto Looking-glasses according to which all the Countrey dress themselves whatever they do other men follow And your sinnes do more hurt by Imputation for God doth many times impute the sins of the Rulers upon the People as he did impute the sin of David upon the people of Israel And therefore God requires you this day to repent in dust and ashes And to be humbled before the Lord as you are Gentlemen that is the first But then secondly God commands you to repent as you are Parliament men As you are men with a personall repentance as you are Parliament men with a Parliament repentance And here give me leave to speak to you first divisim and then conjunctim First To speak to you singly and severally I beseech you search and try your wayes And if there should be found any amongst you that drive the designs of Oxford and that are present at Westminster only to betray their Countrey the Lord unmask such and the Lord give them repenting hearts This is to build your houses upon the bloud of three Kingdoms this is to sell your souls for preferment And it is just with God that such men should not only lose their souls but lose their very preferment also as Judas that sold his Master and hung himself And then again If there be any amongst you that drive your own designs and seek your own ends and not the publike good and seek your own ends more then the publike good and seek your own ends to the detriment of the publike good these are crying abominations and the Lord cals for a Parliament Repentance this day It was the Complaint of the Apostle of his time Omnes quae sua sunt quaerunt c. Phil. 2 21. All men seek their own and no man seeks the things of Iesus Christ If the Apostle Paul had been alive in our daies I wonder what he would have said of our times For truly if God should unrip us here before the Congregation I am afraid he should finde many of our hearts to be made up of nothing but of self-love and creature-love and yet notwithstanding this is a sin and not only against the light of the Word but against the very light of nature for the light of nature teaches us that all private good should be swallowed up in the publike And the very Decii and Curtii and Aristides and many other Heathens will rise up in judgement against many Christians in this particular There is a famous Text in Ier. 45. 3 4. Behold saith the Lord I do now begin to pull down what I have built and to destroy what I have planted and seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not Is this a time to seek your own ends this is just as if a man should have his house on fire and in stead of seeking to quench his house should go and trim up his chamber what will become of his Chamber when the house is burnt It is just as if a man when the Ship he is in is sinking should go and enrich his own Cabine The Lord give you hearts to repent of this Or if there be any amongst you that favour Malignants because they are your friends though enemies to God and his Cause this is a great sin to be repented on greatly And I say to such as the Prophet to Iehosaphat 2 Chro. 19. 2. Because you help the ungodly and love those whom the Lord hateth therefore wrath is gone out from the Lord against you Now let me consider you conjunctim as you are united into one body And here give me leave to put you in minde of a praier of Austins very necessary to be made by you this day Lord deliver me from other mens sins For this is a certain rule That all the sins of the Kingdom which are committed by your connivance or allowance are the Parliament sins and they call for a Parliament Repentance And therefore I beseech you search and try your hearts and consider how far you are accessary to the sins of the Kingdom that so you may be wrought up not only to a personall but to a Parliament humiliation And if it doth appear that you have taken more care in setling your own Liberties then in setling of Religion If you have taken more care to build your own houses then Gods house this is a crying sin and this makes you accessary to a thousand sins that are committed in the Kingdom Again If you do not labour according to your duty and according to your power to suppresse the Errors and Heresies that are spread in the Kingdom all these errours are you errours and these heresies are your heresies and they are your sins and God cals for a Parliamentary repentance from you for chem this day You are the Anabaptists and you are the Antinomians and it is you that hold That all Religions are to be tolerated even Iudaism and Turkism That the Soul is mortall and dies with the body c. These are your errors if they spread by your connivance For the sinnes of the sons of old Ely are imputed to old Ely himself And when the people of Israel had profaned the Sabbath Nehemiah contended with the Nobles of Iudah for suffering them and tels them that it was they that did prophane it because they suffered the people to prophane it Neh. 13. 17. Thus also all the guilty bloud that God requires you in justice to shed and you spare God will require the bloud at your hands And all the Bribery all the cousenage and all the robberies which are committed in the Kingdom which you can punish and do not these are all your sins Oh that the Lord would work up your hearts to the meditation of these things and that the Lord would make your hearts like wax and this word like the Sun to melt them Thus God cals you to repentance as you are men and to a Parliament repentance as you are Parliament men And God cals you to do all this now God now commands you now to repent The commandement is now and the practice must be now There must be two nows the nunc of the Commandement and of that you have heard abundantly but now there must be also the nunc of Obedience God now commands you now to practise this Text for otherwise for ought you know you may be in hell the next hour peradventure you may and peradventure you may not But howsoever you put your everlasting estate upon two peradventures peradventure God will deny thee space to repent next hour or if he give thee space peradventure God will deny thee grace