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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.
Let no man wonder that I spend so much time to persuade great men to be exemplary in Gods service, and to be diligent and zealous. For if I could convert but one great man this day,1 I should do a great deal of service by way of eminency. For as he said, In uno Caesar multi insunt Marij, in one great man there are many inferiors contained. As it is in Printing, the great difficulty is in printing the first Sheets, and when one is printed, it is easy to print hundreds by that. So the great work of our Ministry is to convert great-men, if they were once converted, hundreds would follow their example; When the great wheel of a Clock is set a moving all the inferior wheels will move of their own accord. This was the reason why St. Paul was so zealous about the conversion of Sergius Paulus, who was Deputy of the Country, and a prudent man, that when Elymas the Sorcerer offered to withstand him, he burst out into such speeches with such eagerness, as he never did at any time before, for ought we can read, Oh thou child of the Devil, ⟨p. 45⟩thou enemy of all righteousness, &c. And some are of opinion that Paul had his name changed from Saul to Paul, 2because he converted Sergius Paulus. For indeed it is a matter of great consequence to convert one Sergius Paulus, one Eunuch. To take one such great fish is more then to take many little ones, though the least of all is not to be despised.
Let no man wonder that I spend so much time to perswade great men to be exemplary in Gods service, and to be diligent and zealous. For if I could convert but one great man this day,1 I should doe a great deale of service by way of eminency. For as he said, In uno Caesare multi insunt Marij, in one great man there are many inferiours contained. As it is in Printing, the great difficulty is in printing the first Sheetes, and when one is printed, it is easie to print hundreds by that. So the great worke of our Ministery is to convert great-men, if they were once converted, hundreds would follow their example; When the great wheele of a Clocke is set a moving all the inferiour wheeles will move of their own accord. This was the reason why St. Paul was so zealous about the conversion of Sergius Paulus, who was Deputy of the Country, and a prudent man, that when Elymas the Sorcerer offered to withstand him, he burst out into such speeches with such eagernesse, as he never did at any time before, for ought we can reade, Oh thou child of the Devill,