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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.
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.
First, by the bond of Creation. It is a fundamentall errour §1to think that we are borne chiefely and ultimately to seeke our own happinesse. God made man to serve him, and to seeke his owne happinesse in Gods happinesse, and his owne glory in Gods glory. It is God that hath made us, and not we our selves, we are his workemanship, 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 returne to the Ocean from which they first came. And as Aulius Fulvius said to his sonne when he found him in the conspiracie of Catiline, Now ego te Catilinae genui sed patria. So doth God say to every man, I did not give thee a soule and body to serve sinne withall, but to serve me withall. Quot membra tot ora, so many members of our bodies, so many faculties of our soules; so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God withall.
Secondly, It is our duty to serve God, not only for our §2own creation, but for the creation of the whole world. For God made all the world to serve man, and man to serve ⟨p. 12⟩