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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.
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.
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 nearenesse betweene a King and a toade then between a King and God. For Toades are Gods creatures, and so are Kings, and both finite; but there is an infinite distance between the great God, and the greatest King.
- 1Isa 40. 15.
- 2Chrys.
As great men are to serve God, as well as others. So also rather then others. And that because,