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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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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⟩him with all the world, and for all the world. He made the Sun, the Moon, the Fire and the Water, &c. to be serviceable to man, and therefore man must serve God, because he hath given all these to his use, and he must serve God with all these, improving them all to his service. Quot creaturae, tot ora, so many creatures as there are in the world, so many mouths to call upon us to serve God, and to serve him with all the Ingredients before named.
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⟩him with all the world, and for all the world. He made the Sunne, the Moone, the Fire and the Water, &c. to be serviceable to man, and therefore man must serve God, because he hath given all these to his use, and he must serve God with all these, improving them all to his service. Quot creaturae, tot ora, so many creatures as there are in the world, so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God, and to serve him with all the Ingredients before named.
Thirdly, We are bound by the bond of Redemption. For we are therefore delivered out of the hands of our enemies by Jesus Christ, 1that we should serve him in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life. Quot inimici, tot ora. So many enemies as we are freed from by the death of Christ, so many mouths to call upon us to serve Jesus Christ. And in this sense the very Devil himself, and Hell it self (as we are redeemed from them) do call upon us to serve God, and to serve him faithfully, &c.