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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.
I say again, Let no great man account it a disparagement ⟨p. 43⟩to be Gods servant. Let him not only consider the example of Joshua a Prince and Ruler, and of David, and Paul before named, but also of Constantine the great, who was so attentive to the word when it was preached and so reverent, as that he would sometimes stand up (as Eusebius saith) all the while. And when his Courtiers rebuked him, saying, It would tend to his disparagement; He answered: That it was in the service of the great God, who is no respectre of persons. Take the example of Theodosius, who is reported to have written out the New-Testament with his own hand, accounting it as a special Jewell, and out of it, he read every day praying with his Empress, and with his sister singing of Psalms, &c.
I say againe, Let no great man account it a disparagement ⟨p. 43⟩to be Gods servant. Let him not only consider the example of Ioshua a Prince and Ruler, and of David, and Paul before named, but also of Constantine the great, who was so attentive to the word when it was preached and so reverent, as that he would sometimes stand up (as Eusebius saith) all the while. And when his Courtiers rebuked him, saying, It would tend to his disparagement; He answered: That it was in the service of the great God, who is no respecter of persons. Take the example of Theodosius, who is reported to have written out the New-Testament with his owne hand, accounting it as a speciall Jewell, and out of it, he read every day praying with his Empresse, and with his sister singing of Psalmes, &c.
Suffer me to add the third time, Let not great men think it a disparagement to become Gods servants, and to serve him strictly and precisely.1 If these examples will not move you, consider the Angels of Heaven, who are our Fellow-servants, and are said by a kind of excellency,