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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.
1. In regard of the service God required under the Covenant of works. For there God required perfect obedience in our own persons, not admitting of Repentance. But in the service required under the covenant of grace, we have a Mediator to fly unto, and admittance unto favour upon Repentance.
1. In regard of the service God required under the Covenant of works. For there God required perfect obedience in our owne persons, not admitting of Repentance. But in the service required under the covenant of grace, we have a Mediatour to fly unto, and admittance unto favour upon Repentance.
2. It may be said to be easy, in regard of the service of sin and of the Devil. There are many that take more pains to serve sin and money, then those that go to Heaven do to serve God. Many take more pains to go to hell, then others do to go to Heaven.
2. It may be said to be easie, in regard of the service of sinne and of the Devill. There are many that take more paines to serve sinne and money, then those that goe to Heaven doe to serve God. Many take more pains to goe to hell, then others doe to goe to Heaven.
3. It may be said to be easy, in regard of the many services ⟨p. 39⟩it frees us from, as you heard even now. As Diogenes told Alexander, when he boasted that he was Lord of the whole world. Tu servus servorum meorum es. Illis enim cupiditatibus quibus ego impero tu mancipiumes. Thou art a servant to my servants, a slave to those lusts over which I am Lord.