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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.
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,2 To do his Commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word. The Angels serve God with a great deal of alacrity and cheerfulness, 3and therefore they are said to have harps, as a sign of their cheerful mind. The Angels serve God with a great deal of diligence and sedulity. And therefore they are said to have wings and to fly. They serve God with a great deal of zeal and ardency, and therefore they are said to be a flaming fire. And therefore also the title of a Seraphim is given unto them. The Angels serve God universally. They follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth; They serve him constantly, sincerely. 4The Angels always behold his face, Mat. 18. 10. They serve him day and night, Revel. 7. 15. Oh that the Lord would make you more and more Angelical in his service, to do his will upon earth, as it is done in Heaven!
Suffer me to adde the third time, Let not great men thinke 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,2 To doe his Commandements, hearkning to the voice of his word. The Angels serve God with a great deale of alacrity and chearefullnesse, 3