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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
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9. You have the encouraging providence of God. The great and wise God, who is our Father, hath from all eternity decreed what shall be the issue of these wars. There is nothing done in the lower House of Parliament upon earth, but what is decreed in the higher House of Parliament in Heaven. All the lesser wheels are ordered and over-ruled by the upper wheels. An excellent Story of a Young-man that was at Sea in a mighty tempest, and when all the passengers were at their wits end for fear, he only was merry, and when he was asked the reason of his mirth; he answered, That the Pilot of the Ship was his Father, and he knew his Father would have a care of him. Our heavenly Father is our Pilot, he ⟨p. 57⟩sits at the stern, and though the Ship of the Kingdom be ready to fink, yet be of good comfort,1 Our Pilot will have a care of us. Are not five sparrows (saith Christ) sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God. One sparrow is not worth half a farthing: You shall not have half a farthings worth of harm, more then God hath from all eternity decreed. God hath all our enemies in a chain. And if a child saw a Lion or a Bear in his dear Fathers hand chained, so as he might be secure his Father could keep the chain from being burst, he would not be afraid. And this we are sure God can do. A 1000000. Ciphers stand for nothing, unless a figure be joined to them. All men and devils are but ciphers without God. An host of men is nothing without the Lord of host. The devil cannot go beyond his tether.
9. You have the incouraging providence of God. The great and wise God, who is our Father, hath from all eternity decreed what shall be the issue of these warrs. There is nothing done in the lower House of Parliament upon earth, but what is decreed in the higher House of Parliament in Heaven. All the lesser wheeles are ordered and over-ruled by the upper wheeles. An excellent Story of a Young-man that was at Sea in a mighty tempest, and when all the passengers were at their wits end for feare, he onely was merry, and when he was ask'd the reason of his mirth; he answered, That the Pilot of the Ship was his Father, and he knew his Father would have a care of him. Our heavenly Father is our Pilot, he ⟨p. 57⟩