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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. I answer with our blessed Saviour. Fear not them that can but kill the body, and after that can do no more. It is no great matter (in Christs opinion) to have the body killed. The body is but the Cabinet, the Jewell is the soul. And if the Jewell be safe in Heaven, no great matter to have the Cabinet broken. It is said of King Josiah, that he should go to his grave in peace, and yet he died in a battle. He that dyeth with the peace of a good conscience, dieth in peace, though he be killed in a battle. Blessed is the man that breaths out his last breath in doing God service. He that dies fighting the Lords battles dies a Martyr. An excellent thing for a Minister to ⟨p. 58⟩die preaching, and a soldier die fighting. It is but winking with our eyes (as the Martyr said) and we are presently in Heaven. Blessed and twice blessed are those that die in the Lord, and for the Lord.
2. I answer with our blessed Saviour. Feare not them that can but kill the body, and after that can do no more. It is no great matter (in Christs opinion) to have the body killed. The body is but the Cabinet, the Iewell is the soule. And if the Iewell be safe in Heaven, no great matter to have the Cabinet broken. It is said of King Iosiah, that he should goe to his grave in peace, and yet he died in a battell. He that dyeth with the peace of a good conscience, dieth in peace, though he be killed in a battell. Blessed is the man that breaths out his last breath in doing God service. He that dies fighting the Lords battels dies a Martyr. An excellent thing for a Minister to ⟨p. 58⟩die preaching, and a souldier die fighting. It is but winking with our eyes (as the Martyr said) and we are presently in Heaven. Blessed and twice blessed are those that die in the Lord, and for the Lord.
3. God many times takes away his choicest servants, because we idolize them too much, as he did the King of Sweden. And also because he would teach us to trust only to his help, who will deliver us by weak instruments, when he takes away strong and able Instruments, that he may have all the glory.