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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.
1. The cause you manage is an encouraging cause. It is the cause of God. And let me say to you as Luther to Melanchthon. If the cause be not Gods, why do ye not wholly desert it, but if it be Gods cause, why do you not go through with it. This is a Dilemma that cannot be evaded. The glory of God is embarked in the same Ship in which this cause is in. And you may lawfully plead with God, as Joshua doth, Josh. 7. 9. and as Moses doth, Numb. 14. 15, 16.
1. The cause you manage is an incouraging cause. It is the cause of God. And let me say to you as Luther to Melancthon. If the cause be not Gods, why doe ye not wholly desert it, but if it be Gods cause, why doe you not goe through with it. This is a Dilemma that cannot be evaded. The glory of God is imbarked in the same Ship in which this cause is in. And you may lawfully plead with God, as Ioshua doth, Iosh. 7. 9. and as Moses doth, Numb. 14. 15, 16.
2. You have an encouraging God, me thinks I hear God say to you as he doth to Joshua 1. 6. Be strong and of a good courage, &c. and verse 7. Only be thou strong and very courageous, &c. And verse 9. Have not I commanded thee, Be strong and of a good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. And as Joshua said to the people of Israel, Numb. 14. 7. So doth God to you. Fear not the people of the Land, for they are bread for us, their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us, fear them not. And as Moses said, Exo. 14. 13, 14