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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.
1. Such as choose to serve men and not the Lord. The Apostle faith, 1 Cor. 7. 23. Ye are bought with a price, be not ye the servants of men; 1which words do not forbid the civill relation and subjection of a servant to his Master, but they reprove two sorts of men.2 1. Such as subject their Consciences to the superstitious inventions of men in Gods worship, that build their Religion upon mans bare authority. Such servants are all the Papists that build their Religion upon the Popes infallibility: these are servants of men. 2. Such as are servants to the lusts of wicked men,3 that serve men when they run in a cross line to Gods will. Such were the Subjects of Nebuchadnezzar, that at the command of the King worshipped the golden Image, and served the King and not the Lord. Such was Pilate that for fear of displeasing Caesar, delivered up Christ to be crucified,4 though he knew him to be innocent. And would to God we had not many amongst us that sell their Consciences, their Religion, and their Salvation to be panders to the lustful, covetous and ambitious desires of great men! Such were the Nobles of Cambyses. Cambyses had a lust to marry his own sister, he sends for all his council and asketh, If they had any Law in Persia to allow him to marry his sister? They answered, That there was no such Law. But yet there was another Law, That the Kings of Persia might do what they list. These Nobles were slaves to the lust of Cambyses. And if we had not such Nobles and Gentlemen amongst us, these unhappy ⟨p. 19⟩wars would quickly be at an end. Alexander had two friends* Hephaestion and Craterus. One loved him as a man, the other as a King. He that loved him as a man, laboured to satisfy the Kings lusts, and to please him as a man in all his desires, whether lawful or unlawful. He that loved him as a King, desired to please him in such things which were just, and which tended to the Kings honour and the peoples safety. Now I demand which of these two were Alexander's best friend? Our Sovereign King hath two such kind of friends. Two such kind of friends had Rehoboam, and by hearkening to his Young-men and refusing the council of his old and grave Counsellors, he ruinated himself and his posterity, which God forbid our King should do.