.Floryof the Puritans, examin'd. 39 ' But nowmark the Doarine ; When God begins to build and plant, if that Nation do Evil, God will unbuild what he has built, and---pluck up what he has planted, and repent of the Good, &c. For you muff know, that God repents as well of his Mercies, as of his Judgments ; when God made Saul King, and he proved ftubborn and dif- obedient, he repented, that he had made him King.' * Edmund Calamy's Sermon before the Com- mons, December 22. 1641. p. 34. [Mem- ber of the Affembly of Divines.] If there be found any amongst you, that drive on the Defigns of Oxford, and are found at Weflmin- ' ffer, only to betray their Country, the Lord un- mask fuch, and the Lord give them repenting ' Hearts: this is to build up Houles with the Blood he hath invaded the Houfeof the Bifhop of Wells, and much of the Lands. But had he been made Dean of St. Paul's, or Bifhop of Bath and Wells, by King Charles, he would never 6 have oppofed the Bifhops !' ¿o Apology for the Bifhops to fit and vote in Parliament, 166e. p. 44. * Dr. South informs us, (Sermons, Vol. I. p. çi;.) ' That t he had it from the Mouthof Aattell, (one of theRegicides,) That he, with many more, went into tha execrable War, with fuch a controulingHorror upon their Spirits, from thofe Publick Ser- mons, (efpecially thofe of Brook, and Calamy,) that they ve- ' rily believed, that they fhould have been accurfed of God for ever, if they had not a&ed their Part in that difmal Tragedy, ' andhearitly done the Devil's Work, being fo efiedually called, and commanded to it in God's Name.' Calamy difcover'd but toomuch of this wicked. Spirit, in his famed Speech at Guildhall, Oíi+ober 6. 1.643. ' If you would have a Peace with Popery, a Peace with Slavery; if youwould have a Judas Peace, or a joáb his'ì'eace, you know theStory. He kifl'ed Amafa, and then killed him: If you would have a Peace,that may bring a Maffacre with it, a French Peace; if you would have filch a Peace, it may be had eafily : But if you would have a Peace, that may continue the Gofpel among you, fuch as the Godly in the Kingdom defire; I am confident fuch a Peace cannot be had, without contributing towards bringing ' in the Scots,' Cc 4 Q of
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