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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.
Secondly, They must die as well as others, and death makes all equal. Diogenes could find no difference in the grave, between the bones of King Philip and other men, as he told Alexander the great.
Secondly, They must die as well as others, and death makes all equall. Diogenes could find no difference in the grave, betweene the bones of King Philip and other men, as he told Alexander the great.
Thirdly, They must appear and stand before God at the day of Judgement, to give an account as well as others, Revel. 20. 12. I saw the dead great and small standing before God.
Thirdly, They must appeare and stand before God at the day of Iudgement, to give an account as well as others, Revel. 20. 12. I saw the dead great and small standing before God.
Fourthly, There is no man great in comparison of God. Though a man may be said to be great in comparison of his neighbour;1 yet in comparison of God all the world is but as the drop of a bucket. And if all Asia, Africa, Europe and America be but as the drop of a Bucket in comparison of God,2 what a little drop of this drop is one great man. There is a greater nearness between a King and a toad then between a King and God. For Toads are Gods creatures, and so are Kings, and both finite; but there is an infinite distance between the great God, and the greatest King.