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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.
Seventhly, To serve him diligently and laboriously: This is another property of a good servant; It is said of the 12. Tribes, That they served God instantly day and night. The word in the Greek is,1 They served God with an outstretched neck.2
Seventhly, To serve him diligently and laboriously: This is another property of a good servant; It is said of the 12. Tribes, That they served God instantly day and night. The word in the Greeke is,1 They served God with an outstretched neck.2
Eighthly, To serve God Universally in all things, At all times, and in all places, and with all our faculties. First, In all things, though never so irrational to flesh and blood, though never so dangerous, though never so costly. Such ⟨p. 9⟩a servant was David that fulfilled all the wills of God.1 2. As in all things, so at all times; In time of prosperity as well as adversity, and in time of adversity as well as prosperity. For the God whom we serve is the same in all times, he alters not, no more must his servants. 3. In all places, in private as well as public; For God is a Master that fills all places. If thou canst find out a place where God doth not see thee, there it shall be lawful for thee to serve the Devil. 4. With all the faculties of thy soul and body. This note of universality though it be a plain one, yet is of marvellous consequence, and it is both [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew]. It is the best divisive difference to divide a Sheep from a Goat, And constitutive, to constitute a faithful servant of God, who is one that in all things, at all times, and in all places, with all his faculties gives up himself to Gods service. That can say as that Dutch Minister Baldazzar did to Oecolampadius, Veniat verbum Domini & submittemus ei sexcenta si nobis essent colla. Let God speak, and though we had six hundred necks, yet we will make them all stoop to the obedience of him.