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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.
6. Easy to those that are in Christ. And therefore Christ saith, Take up my yoke. Christ calls it his yoke. Because he draws it with us, and he draws all. As it is easy for a little child to life up a great weight, when a Giant holds his hand, and lifts with him and for him.
6. Easie to those that are in Christ. And therefore Christ saith, Take up my yoake. Christ cals it his yoake. Because he drawes it with us, and he drawes all. As it is easie for a little child to life up a great weight, when a Giant holds his hand, and lifts with him and for him.
7. Easy to those that love God, 1 John 5. 3. Jacob for the love of Rachel accounted lightly of his service. Love adds wings to make our service easy.
7. Easie to those that love God, 1 John 5. 3. Iacob for the love of Rachell accounted lightly of his service. Love adds wings to make our service easie.
8. Easy to those that have the right art of serving of God. As in all trades almost there is an Art, which when we have once got the trade is easy. So there is an art of praying and preaching, and hearing and receiving the Sacrament, &c. An art taught us by the God of Heaven, which whosoever hath, accounts it not a burden, but a heaven, to be serving of God.
8. Easie to those that have the right art of serving of God. As in all trades almost there is an Art, which when we have once got the trade is easie. So there is an art of praying and preaching, and hearing and receiving the Sacrament, &c. An art taught us by the God of Heaven, which whosoever hath, accounts it not a burden, but a heaven, to be serving of God.