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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.
There are none of Gods people but they do sometime or other find comfort,1 either in the ordinances, or from the ordinances.
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2. If at any time they miss of comfort it is because they do not meet with God, whom they came to converse withal. As when a man goeth to meet with a friend, and ⟨p. 37⟩meets him not, he comes away sadded in his spirit. So when a child of God comes to an ordinance, hoping to enjoy sweet communion with God in it, and then fails of his expectation, this must needs fill him full of sadness. And therefore Bernard hath an excellent speech. Nunquam abs te recedo Domine sine te. That he never went from God without God. Give me leave to add a clause to Bernards speech. And happy is that Christian that when he goeth to converse with God in his ordinances can say. Nunquam ad te accedo sine te, nunqum abs te recedo sine te. Oh Lord I never come to thee, but I meet thee, and I never go from thee, but I carry thee with me.
2. If at any time they misse of comfort it is because they doe not meet with God, whom they came to converse withall. As when a man goeth to meet with a friend, and ⟨p. 37⟩meets him not, he comes away sadded in his spirit. So when a child of God comes to an ordinance, hoping to enjoy sweet communion with God in it, and then failes of his expectation, this must needs fill him full of sadnesse. And therfore Bernard hath an excellent speech. Nunquam abs te recedo Domine sine te. That he never went from God without God. Give me leave to adde a clause to Bernards speech. And happy is that Christian that when he goeth to converse with God in his ordinances can say. Nunquam ad te accedo sine te, nunqum abs te recedo sine te. Oh Lord I never come to thee, but I meet thee, and I never goe from thee, but I carry thee with me.