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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.
Now for Exhortation,
Let me exhort you not only to choose to serve God, and to serve his Church and his Cause in this most just defensive ⟨p. 47⟩War, but to do it with those rare and remarkable circumstances formerly mentioned in Joshuas choice.
Let me exhort you not only to choose to serve God, and to serve his Church and his Cause in this most just defensive ⟨p. 47⟩Warre, but to doe it with those rare and remarkeable circumstances formerly mentioned in Ioshuas choise.
First, Let me persuade you to appear more and more §1publicly in this Cause. There are many that think it fit only for poor men that have nothing to loose, to appear openly in a good Cause, but as for those that have great Estates, it becomes them to be wary and circumspect, and to seek rather to save their Estates then to hazard all. Such a one was Nicodemus that came to Christ by night, though afterwards he repented and amended, as you may read, John 7. 50, Such were those chief Rulers, Joh. 12. 42, That believed in Christ, but durst not confess him so fear of the Pharisees, least they should be put out of the Synagogue. And many such there are in our days. But a true Christian is so far from being hindered by his riches and greatness from appearing for God,