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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.
Such another was Nehemiah, who met with so much opposition, that had he not bin steeled by a strong and obstinate resolution, he could never have rebuilded the Temple, but would have sunk in the midst of it. Such a one was David, that would not be hindered from fighting with Goliath though he met with many discouragements. The Lord make you such. It is resolution that will make you valiant for the truth,1 that will make Martyrdom as pleasing as a bed of Roses, that will make you like men of fire, and all that oppose you as stubble, that will make you say with that good Martyr, Though we had as many lives as hairs on our head, we would loose them all rather then loose our Religion. The Lord fill your hearts with this grace!
Such another was Nehemiah, who met with so much opposition, that had he not bin steeled by a strong and obstinate resolution, he could never have rebuilded the Temple, but would have sunke in the midst of it. Such a one was David, that would not be hindered from fighting with Goliah though he met with many discouragements. The Lord make you such. It is resolution that will make you valiant for the truth,1 that will make Martyrdome as pleasing as a bed of Roses, that will make you like men of fire, and all that oppose you as stubble, that will make you say with that good Martyr, Though we had as many lives as haires on our head, we would loose them all rather then loose our Religion. The Lord fill your hearts with this grace!
Thirdly, I am to beseech you that you would endeavour