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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, I am to reprove such that choose to serve sin and not the Lord. It is one thing to be a sinner, another thing to be a servant of sin. A servant of sin, is one that gives himself over to the service of sin, that is bound apprentice to sin. Observe the difference between Paul and Ahab. Paul was sold under sin,1 but it was against his ⟨p. 21⟩will. But Ahab sold himself willingly to work wickedness. Many such Ahabs that serve sin as the Centurion servants served him, If sin bid go they go. Such a slave was Herod to his Herodias, Felix to his Drusilla. Such servants are swearers and drunkards, that are at the service of their Oaths and Cups. There are many men that are slaves to the Mammon of iniquity. That do not only possess money, but are possessed of money, that are had of money, that with Judas will sell Jesus Christ himself for 30. pieces of silver. There are many that are slaves to their preferments, that say with Agrippina concerning Nero, Peream ego modo ille imperet. That sell their part in Heaven to get a little honour here upon earth. And to speak my mind plainly, there are two sins which are as two mighty Lodestones to draw hundreds from the Parliaments side. Covetousness and Ambition. Could the Parliament feed these sins as well as they are fed at Oxford, our miserable distractions would quickly be at an end. What made Balaam go to Balak? At first he said,2 If Balak would give me his house full of gold and silver I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord; 3but yet afterwards being mad after the wages of iniquity, he went and did much hurt to Gods people, but it was to his own ruin at last, and this will be the end of all those that are the servants of sin. The Apostle speaks excellently, For when ye were servants of sin, 4ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. In which words the Apostle teacheth us, that the service of sin is both shameful and damnable. First, it is shameful. For to serve sin, is to serve the Devil,