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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 serve God, but it is all in hypocrisy. We live in a complement all age, our mouths are full of ⟨p. 24⟩service. It is an ordinary phrase, Your humble servant, My humble service, and yet it may be we intend no service at all, but hate them in our hearts. Even so we deal with God. Many like the Soldiers that bowed to Christ and mocked him; That give their outsides to God, and their insides to all uncleanness; That as Luther saith of Cain, give opus personae Deo, but not personam, their cap and knee to God, but themselves to sin and iniquity. And indeed this is the capital and crying sin of this age; Religion is that which is pretended on all hands: The defence of the Protestant Religion, this news we hear daily from Oxford. And for this purpose there is an Army of Papists raised to defend the Protestant Religion. And in this horrid Conspiracy (for the discovery of which we are here met to bless God,) there was a Declaration framed, to assure the people, that the chief cause of their insurrection was to maintain the Protestant Religion. Just as the Gunpowder Traitors, that would have blown up the Parliament for the good of the Catholic Religion, Tantum Religio poterat suadere malorum; the Lord lay not this great sin of hypocrisy to the charge of this Nation. For my part I am confident that the Popish Army, and the plundering Army, will fight no otherwise for the Protestant Religion, then a Thief doth for a true mans Purse, which is not to preserve it, but to take it away.
There are others serve God, but it is all in hypocr•sie. We live in a complement all age, our mouthes are full of ⟨p. 24⟩service. It is an ordinary phrase, Your humble servant, My humble service, and yet it may be we intend no service at all, but hate them in our hearts. Even so we deale with God. Many like the Souldiers that bowed to Christ and mocked him; That give their outsides to God, and their insides to all uncleannesse; That as Luther saith of Cain, give opus personae Deo, but not personam, their cap and knee to God, but themselves to sinne and iniquity. And indeed this is the capitall and crying sinne of this age; Religion is that which is pretended on all hands: The defence of the Protestant Religion, this newes we heare daily from Oxford. And for this purpose there is an Army of Papists raised to defend the Protestant Religion. And in this horrid Conspiracy (for the discovery of which we are here met to blesse God,) there was a Declaration framed, to assure the people, that the chiefe cause of their insurrection was to maintaine the Protestant Religion. Just as the Gunpouder Traitors, that would have blowne up the Parliament for the good of the Catholick Religion, Tantum Religio poterat suadere malorum; the Lord lay not this great sinne of hypocrisie to the charge of this Nation. For my part I am confident that the Popish Army, and the plundering Army, will fight no otherwise for the Protestant Religion, then a Theefe doth for a true mans Purse, which is not to preserve it, but to take it away.