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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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2. I answer that for the present even in this life, no servant of God is poor, but so long and so much as God seeth to be good for him, for if it were good to be rich, he should be rich, Psa. 84. 10. No good thing would he with-hold from him that liveth a godly life. He that hath given thee Christ, will with him give thee all things. He that will give thee a Crown hereafter, will not deny thee a crumb here, if good for thee. There are many dear servants of God, to whom God giveth very little wages in this life, because he fore-seeth that if they had a great part of their wages afore-hand, they would do but little work. As many work-men that are paid before their work be done, when they have their pay, begin to slack their work. And indeed we see it too too true in many great rich personages that have so much of their pay before hand, that they do many of them but very little service, and some of them think that they are privileged from doing much service, because they have so much wages, whereas indeed it ought to be an obligation to greater service, as I have already showed. O that the profitableness of this service might engage us to serve him more faithfully and more diligently then every yet we have done.
2. I answer that for the present even in this life, no servant of God is poore, but so long and so much as God seeth to be good for him, for if it were good to be rich, he should be rich, Psa. 84. 10. No good thing would he with-hold from him that liveth a godly life. He that hath given thee Christ, will with him give thee all things. He that will give thee a Crowne hereafter, will not deny thee a crum here, if good for thee. There are many deare servants of God, to whom God giveth very little wages in this life, because he fore-seeth that if they had a great part of their wages afore-hand, they would doe but little worke. As many work-men that are paid before their worke be done, when they have their pay, begin to slacke their worke. And indeed we see it too too true in many great rich personages that have so much of their pay before hand, that they doe many of them but very little service, and some of them thinke that they are priviledged from doing much service, because they have so much wages, whereas indeed it ought to be an obligation to greater service, as I have already shewed. O that the profitablenesse of this service might ingage us to serve him more faithfully and more diligently then every yet we have done.