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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.
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. So saith God, though your enemies be as tall as the Anakims: though the red Sea be before you, and the Egyptians behind you, fear them not, for the Lord fights for you. The God whose cause you manage is infinite in power, wisdom and goodness, he hath brought us into deeps, not to drown us, but to wash away our spiritual filthiness; not to destroy us, but to manifest his power in our deliverance; he will deliver us by weak means, and by contrary means, and he will make use of the treachery of your ⟨p. 54⟩enemies to be a means to deliver you, as he hath done this day. He will kill Goliath with his own Sword, and hang Haman upon his own gallows. He will strike strait strokes with crooked sticks; as he made the treachery of Josephs brethren to be a means to advance Joseph, and the falseness of Judas to be a way to save all his elect children.
2. You have an incouraging God, me thinkes I heare God say to you as he doth to Ioshuah 1. 6. Be strong and of a good courage, &c. and verse 7. Onely be thou strong and very couragious, &c. And verse 9. Have not I commanded thee, Be strong and of a good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismaied, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. And as Ioshuah said to the people of Israel, Numb. 14. 7. So doth God to you. Feare not the people of the Land, for they are bread for us, their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us, feare them not. And as Moses said, Exo. 14. 13, 14