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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.
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 ⟨p. 8⟩Lord abhors them and their services.2 God abhors an hypocrite more then a Sodomite, and therefore Hell is provided on purpose for hypocrites.
3. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly §3and Everlastingly, but also Faithfully and sincerely. And this appeares, because he chose such a Master, that is the heart maker and the heart searcher. This is the difference betweene 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 Ioshua tells the children of Israel, vers. 14. Now therefore feare 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 uprightnesse, or else ye doe not serve him at all. For God requires good aimes as well as good actions, and he abhorres that service though never so good, if the aime of him that serves him be not good. If a Wife should dresse her selfe in fine apparell to please an Adulterer, this aime of hers makes her action most abominable; Even so all those that serve God, though never so exactly in outward shew if their aime be to please men, or to get their own ends, the