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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE House of LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE House of LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.
IF all Noble-men were as good and religious as they are presented to the World in the Epistles prefixed to the Books that are dedicated to them, we should not have so much cause to complain of great mens Iniquities, or of poor mens flatteries. S. Augustine in his Book of Retractations, Retracts it as a great fault, that when he dedicated a Book to Mallius Theodorus, he praised him more then he deserved, though he confesseth that he was doctus vir & Christianus, a Learned and Christian man: It is none of the least miseries of great men, that they ⟨image 3⟩want faithful friends to tell them their vices as well as their virtues. King Ahab had 400. flattering Prophets who were the cause of his ruin. Hence is that old Proverb, that there are only two things that never flatter great men, Death and Horses. For Death seizeth upon great as well as small. And a Horse will cast down a great man as well as any other, if he rides not well. This Sermon speaks plain language, and this is the only Reason (for ought I know) that it received such kind acceptance, for otherwise it wants that neatness of phrase, and eloquence of speech which such Noble Auditors are accustomed unto, I have often heard of Great men, that complained upon their Death beds, that none would tell them of their faults, but never of any that complained he was told too much. Theodosius the great Emperor confesseth of S. Ambrose, notwithstanding his severe carriage towards him,1