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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
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Before I leave this point I must add one thing, That there are 2. properties of a servant that must not be in Gods servant. First, a servant serves his Master with a slavish fear, but we must serve God with a godly fear, Heb. 12. 28. Secondly, a servant loves his Master with a mercenary love, he serves his Master as a hireling for his wages. But Gods servant must serve God with a filial love. He that serves God only for Heaven, fells his service to God, as Parisiensis saith, Et est inter illum & Deum negotiatio quaedam. Not but that a true servant of God may have an eye to the recompense of reward, as Moses had; but he must have but one eye upon the reward, not both, and the left eye too; For our chief and last aim must be at Gods glory. And the reason is, because Gods servants are also his sons and heirs, and therefore as we must serve him with the subjection of servants, so we must serve him with the affection of sons. Let us remember ⟨p. 11⟩that we are his servants, that we may serve him with reverence, diligence and exact subjection, but remember also that we are his sons to serve him with filial fear, love, hope and faith. And this is the right serving of God, to serve him with a servant-like subjection, and with a sonlike affection.
Before I leave this point I must adde one thing, That there are 2. properties of a servant that must not be in Gods servant. First, a servant serves his Master with a slavish feare, but we must serve God with a godly feare, Heb. 12. 28. Secondly, a servant loves his Master with a mercenary love, he serves his Master as a hireling for his wages. But Gods servant must serve God with a filiall love. He that serves God only for Heaven, fells his service to God, as Parisiensis saith, Et est inter illum & Deum negotiatio quaedam. Not but that a true servant of God may have an eye to the recompence of reward, as Moses had; but he must have but one eye upon the reward, not both, and the left eye too; For our chiefe and last aime must be at Gods glory. And the reason is, because Gods servants are also his sonnes and heires, and therefore as we must serve him with the subjection of servants, so we must serve him with the affection of sonnes. Let us remember ⟨p. 11⟩