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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 1. This is part of their service to be persecuted, for we serve God by suffering as well as by doing.
2. It is a great honour that God will account us worthy to suffer for him.1 And therefore the Apostles rejoiced that they were accounted worthy to be whipped for Christ sake. They did not rejoice in whipping as whipping, but (flagella propter Christum) to be whipped for Christs sake was matter of great joy unto them. The Apostle tells us, That to us it is given, not only to believe, but also to suffer. 2It is a great gift of God to give us opportunity to suffer for him. This is that to which we are predestinated, 1 Thes. 3. 3. Our Saviour Christ reckoneth it as part of our reward in this life, Mar. 10. 30. And he professeth that it will mightily increase our reward in Heaven, Luk. 6. 22, 23. Mat. 5. 12.
2. It is a great honour that God will account us worthy to suffer for him.1 And therefore the Apostles rejoyced that they were accounted worthy to be whipped for Christ sake. They did not rejoyce in whipping as whipping, but (flagella propter Christum) to be whipped for Christs sake was matter of great joy unto them. The Apostle tels us, That to us it is given, not only to believe, but also to suffer. 2It is a great gift of God to give us opportunity to suffer for him. This is that to which we are predestinated,