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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.
The second thing propounded in the Explication,1 is to show the necessity that lies upon all men as well as great men to serve God, and to serve him with all these Ingredients. For though Joshua did freely choose to serve the Lord, yet it was not free for Joshua to choose whether he would serve God or no. For we are all bound to do God homage and service. This is primum and totum officium hominis, This is the chief and the whole of man, Eccles. 12. last. We are all bound to this service by a 6. fold bond.
The second thing propounded in the Explication,1 is to shew the necessity that lies upon all men as well as great men to serve God, and to serve him with all these Ingredients. For though Ioshua did freely choose to serve the Lord, yet it was not free for Ioshua to choose whether he would serve God or no. For we are all bound to doe God homage and service. This is primum and totum officium hominis, This is the chiefe and the whole of man, Eccles. 12. last. We are all bound to this service by a 6. fold bond.
- 1The second part of the Explication.
First, by the bond of Creation. It is a fundamental error §1to think that we are borne chiefly and ultimately to seek our own happiness. God made man to serve him, and to seek his own happiness in Gods happiness, and his own glory in Gods glory. It is God that hath made us, and not we our selves, we are his workmanship, and therefore it is our duty to improve all our parts and gifts to the service of that God from whom we have received all. As all Rivers return to the Ocean from which they first came. And as Aulius Fulvius said to his son when he found him in the conspiracy of Catiline, Now ego te Catilinae genui sed patria. So doth God say to every man, I did not give thee a soul and body to serve sin withal, but to serve me withal. Quot membra tot ora, so many members of our bodies, so many faculties of our souls; so many mouths to call upon us to serve God withal.