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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.
Fifthly, Let me persuade you to do some extraordinary service for the Kingdom that is now in extraordinary danger. Joshuas choice was extraordinary. Though all Israel forsook God, Joshua was resolved to serve God alone. God hath done extraordinary things for you, he hath advanced you above thousands in outward mercies, he hath done extraordinary things for this Cause which you stand up for, he hath given us an extraordinary deliverance this day, and therefore he expects extraordinary service from ⟨p. 51⟩you.1 He looks you should say and do as Esther; If I perish I perish. And let that Text I beseech you lye near your hearts, and read it again and again. Think not with your selves that you shall escape in the Kings house, more then all the Jews, for if you altogether hold your peace, enlargement and deliverance shall arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your fathers houses shall be destroyed, and who knoweth whether you are come to the Kingdom for such a time as this? He looks you should venture your selves as Joseph of Arimathea did,2 of whom it is related, that he was a rich man and yet was not afraid to own the cause of Christ, when Christ was dead upon the Cross, He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. 3He expects you should be like Ebedmelech that hazarded his life to help Jeremiah out of prison, like to Noah who walked with God when all the world walked with iniquity, and was like a spark of fire in a Sea of water, and yet continued his heat. Like to David, 4who when Michal mocked him for dancing before the Ark, answered, It is before the Lord, and I will yet be more vile then thus, &c. When you are derided for hazarding lives and estates in this cause, you must reply. It is for God and his Religion, I will yet be more vile then thus. Oh that the Lord would give you a heart to study to do some singular thing for him!
Fifthly, Let me perswade you to doe some extraordinary service for the Kingdome that is now in extraordinary danger. Ioshuas choice was extraordinary. Though all Israel forsooke God, Ioshua was resolved to serve God alone. God hath done extraordinary things for you, he hath advanced you above thousands in outward mercies, hee hath done extraordinary things for this Cause which you stand up for, he hath given us an extraordinary deliverance this day, and therefore he expects extraordinary service from