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The noble-mans pattern of true and real thankfulness presented in a sermon preached before…The noble-mans patterne of true and reall thankfulnesse presented in a sermon preached before…
The noble-mans pattern of true and real thankfulness presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, at their late solemn day of Thanksgiving, June 15, 1643 : for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate and bloody design tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous city of London / by Edmund Calamy ...The noble-mans patterne of true and reall thankfulnesse presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, at their late solemne day of Thanksgiving, June 15, 1643 : for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate and bloody designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous city of London / by Edmund Calamy ...
London: printed by G.M. for Christopher Meredith, 1643
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Add secondly, The profitableness of this service.1 There is no service any man doth for God but God takes exact notice of it; Thus God took notice of Abraham's willingness to offer Isaac, Gen. 22. 16. God takes notice of every circumstance of that that we do for him. Thus Christ took notice of Mary Magdalen and of every circumstance of her washing his feet, &c. Luk. 7. 44, 45, 46. And Mark. 4. 2, 3. Christ observes how far some came to hear him, and how long they tarried, &c. And as God takes notice of these things in his servants, so he commends them upon all occasions and highly esteems of them and their services. Thus God boasted to Satan concerning his servant Job, Job 1. 8. Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him, &c. And as none observes, commends and prizeth his servants so much as God, so none rewards his servants as God doth. None more able and none more willing. The service of God is perfect freedom, and it will free us from all other services. As a man that buyeth free-hold Land, though he pay dear for it, yet it is accounted cheaper then copy-hold, because it freeth him from many services, ⟨p. 34⟩vices, which the copy-hold is obliged unto. If thou beest a servant of Gods indeed and in truth, this will free thee from the service of sin and Satan. Whereas on the contrary; If we be not true servants to Christ, we shall be slaves to every thing beside him. O quam multos habet Dominos, qui unum non habet. O how many Lords hath that man that hath not Christ for his Lord. Either thy belly will be thy god, or thy money, &c. The service of sin, as it is shameful, so it is unfruitful. And it is called, The unfruitful work of darkness. But the service of God, as it is honourable, so it ends in everlasting life. No man ever kindled a fire upon Gods Altar for nought, Mal. 1. 9. In keeping of Gods Commandments there is great reward,