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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.
Fifthly, We are bound by the bond of Gratitude. Quot beneficia, tot ora, so many mercies as we have received from God, so many mouths to call upon us to serve God. For every mercy is as a needle, saith S. Austin, to sow God and Man together. Man and God are separated by disobedience, but mercy is as a needle to sow God and Man together ⟨p. 13⟩again by obedience. And therefore God makes the deliverance out of Egypt to be a forcible motive to the keeping of the ten Commandments. I am the God that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, Therefore thou shalt have none other gods but me, Therefore thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath day, &c. So must the deliverance we celebrate this day. It must be as a golden Cord to tie us to serve God more devoutly, more resolvedly then ever. Every Deliverance binds the delivered according to the quantity and quality of the Deliverance. God hath given us Deliverances of all sorts, and of all sizes for to oblige us to his service. We have had temporal and spiritual Deliverances, old and new Deliverances. These two last years have been made up all of Deliverances. And to sin willingly against God after such Deliverances as these, is a sin that takes away all excuse, Ezra. 9. 10. What shall we say after this, for we have sinned against thee, q. d. We have nothing to say. And it is a sin that will bring universal and utter destruction, according to that Text, Ezra. 9. 13, 14. Seeing thou O God hast given us such a Deliverance as this, should we again break thy Commandments, wouldest thou not be angry with us, till thou haddest consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping. He that doth not serve God the better for this Deliverance, it is pity he was delivered.
Fifthly, We are bound by the bond of Gratitude. Quot beneficia, tot ora, so many mercies as we have received from God, so many mouthes to call upon us to serve God. For every mercy is as a needle, saith S. Austin, to sow God and Man together. Man and God are seperated by disobedience, but mercy is as a needle to sow God and Man together ⟨p. 13⟩againe by obedience. And therefore God makes the deliverance out of Egypt to be a forcible motive to the keeping of the ten Commandements. I am the God that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, Therefore thou shalt have none other gods but me, Therefore thou shalt keepe holy the Sabbath day, &c. So must the deliverance wee celebrate this day. It must be as a golden Cord to tye us to serve God more devoutly, more resolvedly then ever. Every Deliverance binds the delivered according to the quantity and quality of the Deliverance. God hath given us Deliverances of all sorts, and of all sizes for to oblige us to his service. Wee have had temporall and spirituall Deliverances, old and new Deliverances. These two last yeares have been made up all of Deliverances. And to sinne willingly against God after such Deliverances as these, is a sinne that takes away all excuse,