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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.
In the words themselves we have two parts.
First, The substance of Joshua's choice; and that is, To serve Jehovah. Joshua doth not only choose to be saved by Jehovah, but to serve Jehovah. There is no man so wicked, ⟨p. 4⟩but he would be glad to be saved by God, but you must know that that man shall never have Christ for his Saviour, that will not have Christ for his Lord and Master. He that will not follow the example of Christs life, shall never be saved by the merit of his death. If Christ be not thy Jacobs staff to guide thee to Heaven, he will never become as a Jacobs ladder to carry thee up to Heaven.
First, The substance of Joshuah's choice; and that is, To serve Iehovah. Ioshuah doth not only choose to be saved by Jehovah, but to serve Jehovah. There is no man so wicked, ⟨p. 4⟩but he would be glad to be saved by God, but you must know that that man shall never have Christ for his Saviour, that will not have Christ for his Lord and Master. He that will not follow the example of Christs life, shall never be saved by the merit of his death. If Christ be not thy Jacobs staffe to guide thee to Heaven, he will never become as a Iacobs ladder to carry thee up to Heaven.
2. We have six rare circumstances in Joshua's choice.
2. We have six rare circumstances in Ioshuahs choice.