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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.
4. You have encouraging examples. For we cannot be in a lower condition then Jonah was, when he was in the Whales belly, tanquam vivus in sepulchro, and yet God commanded the Whale to deliver him safe upon the shore. We cannot be in a worser estate then Jeremiah was when he was in the dungeon, and sank in the mire so deep, as that 30. men could hardly lift him up; or then Peter was when he was ready to sink: or then Moses when put in an Ark of bull-rushes, &c. Or then the children of Israel were in Babylon, who were like dry bones in the grave, insomuch as Ezekiel himself could not tell whether they could live, or as Peter when put in prison by Herod. And yet notwithstanding God sent a blackmore to deliver Jeremiah. Jesus Christ reached out his hand to keep Peter from sinking. God sent Pharaohs daughter to preserve Moses: And Cyrus to deliver Israel out of Babylon. And he sent his Angel to deliver Peter out of prison. Indeed Peter himself did not believe it, no more did the Church that was praying for him. God sent them a return of prayers, while they were praying, but they believed it not. And thus God hath often done for us. Comfort one another with these examples, and ⟨p. 55⟩carry this home for your everlasting consolation. God never suffers his children to meet with a huge unremovable difficulty, like the stone before the door of the Sepulchre, but he sends some Angel or other to remove it away.
4. You have incouraging examples. For we cannot be in a lower condition then Ionah was, when he was in the Whales belly, tanquam vivus in sepulchro, and yet God commanded the Whale to deliver him safe upon the shoare. We cannot be in a worser estate then Ieremy was when he was in the dungeon, and sanke in the mire so deepe, as that 30. men could hardly lift him up; or then Peter was when he was ready to sinke: or then Moses when put in an Arke of bull-rushes, &c. Or then the children of Israel were in Babylon, who were like dry bones in the grave, insomuch as Ezekiell himselfe could not tell whether they could live, or as Peter when put in prison by Herod. And yet notwithstanding God sent a blackmore to deliver Ieremy. Iesus Christ reached out his hand to keepe Peter from sinking. God sent Pharaohs daughter to preserve Moses: And Cyrus to deliver Israel out of Babylon. And he sent his Angell to deliver Peter out of prison. Indeed Peter himselfe did not believe it, no more did the Church that was praying for him. God sent them a returne of prayers, while they were praying, but they beleeved it not. And thus God hath often done for us. Comfort one another with these examples, and