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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.
There are others that serve God, but their service is but as a morning cloud, 1and as an early dew it quickly vanisheth, of whom I may say justly that which Nabal did unjustly of David,2 There are many servants now a days that break away every man from his Master. Many now a days, and more in our days then in former days. We live in an Apostatizing age, wherein there are many falling Stars, but few fixed Stars; Many that were once whiter then milk, as Rubies, and polished Sapphires in regard of their glorious profession, but now they are blacker then a coal, 3they are withered and become like a stick; That were yesterday Gods people, but to day are turned enemies. 4To these I say as S. Peter doth, Better they had never known the way of righteousness, &c. 2 Pet. 2. 20. This relapse makes thy condition the worse, as relapses in all kinds are most dangerous. And it is also a sign thou esteemest the service of sin better then the service of God. For he that first served sin, and then turned to the service of God, and afterwards falls again to the service of sin, proclaims to all the world that he esteems the service of sin, better then the service of God, which is an affront to God of an high nature.
There are others that serve God, but their service is but as a morning cloud, 1and as an early dew it quickly vanisheth, of whom I may say justly that which Nabal did unjustly of David,2 There are many servants now a dayes that breake away every man from his Master. Many now a dayes, and more in our dayes then in former dayes. We live in an Apostatizing age, wherein there are many falling Starres, but few fixed Starres; Many that were once whiter then milke, as Rubies, and polished Saphires in regard of their glorious profession, but now they are blacker then acoale,