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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. Joshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly,§2 but also Everlastingly. This appears because he chose an everlasting Master. And for this purpose he tells the Israelites, verses 19. 20. You cannot serve the Lord for he is a holy God and a jealous God, &c. If ye forsake him he will consume you, &c. As if he should have said, If you intend to serve God, you must never revolt, but keep your selves constant for ever to his service, for else he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good.
2. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly,§2 but also Everlustingly. This appeares because he chose an everlasting Master. And for this purpose he tells the Israelites, verses 19. 20. You cannot serve the Lord for he is a holy God and a jealous God, &c. If ye forsake him he will consume you, &c. As if he should have said, If you intend to serve God, you must never reuolt, but keep your selves constant for ever to his service, for else he will turne and doe you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good.
3. Joshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly §3and Everlastingly, but also Faithfully and sincerely. And this appears, because he chose such a Master, that is the heart maker and the heart searcher. This is the difference between the serving of God, and the serving of man; Man can but see the outside, and punish the outside, and judgeth of the inside by the outside. But God is a Spirit, and will be worshipped in spirit and in truth, and judgeth of the outside by the inside.1 And therefore Joshua tells the children of Israel, vers. 14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. As if he should have said, If you intend to serve him, you must serve him in uprightness, or else ye do not serve him at all. For God requires good aims as well as good actions, and he abhors that service though never so good, if the aim of him that serves him be not good. If a Wife should dress her self in fine apparel to please an Adulterer, this aim of hers makes her action most abominable; Even so all those that serve God, though never so exactly in outward show if their aim be to please men, or to get their own ends, the