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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.
But when goodness meets with greatness, it is like a Candle upon a hill that gives light, heat and influence to all the Country round about.
But when goodnesse meets with greatnesse, it is like a Candle upon a hill that gives light, heat and influence to all the Country round about.
Let no great man think it a disparagement to serve God, to wear his livery, and to appear on his side. For it is Gods service only that can make you truly honourable. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast bin honourable, saith the Prophet Isaiah 43. 4. The men of Beraea were more noble then the men of Thessalonica, because they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched into the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so, Act. 17. 11. This is the greatest Nobility to be a true servant of the great God. A King may give great Titles to a great man, but he cannot make a great man. A King may cause a man to be called noble, but he cannot make a man truly noble. A King may command us to call a Lion a Lamb; but a King cannot make a Lion a Lamb. It is the noble mind that makes a man truly noble. This God only can give. To contemn the world and all worldly things, to mind the things of eternity, to conquer our lusts, to have communion with the great God, to stand for God when all the world opposeth him, this is true nobility. This will make thee noble in this world, and in the world that is to come.
Let no great man thinke it a disparagement to serve God, to weare his livery, and to appeare on his side. For it is Gods service onely that can make you truly honourable. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast bin honourable, saith the Prophet Isaiah 43. 4. The men of Beraea were more noble then the men of Thessalonica, because they received the word with all readinesse of mind, and searched into the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so,