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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 a fourth sort that serve God, but it is so coldly, as if God were a dead Idol: Where shall we find a man fervent in spirit as serving the Lord? Where is our ancient zeal? Oh the cold Prayers, frozen Sacraments, &c. It is possible to find a living Christian, but where shall we find a Christian lively and active in Gods service? Remember God will spue out of his mouth a lukewarm Laodicean, 1which is a remarkable place: For that which we spue out, we do it with delight; we choose some dirty ⟨p. 25⟩corner to ease our stomachs in, and we never reassume what we once spue out: And all this to signify; That God will for ever cast off with delight, and with shame and confusion, a cold, dead, lukewarm Christian, especially in these active times.
There are a fourth sort that serve God, but it is so coldly, as if God were a dead Idoll: Where shall we find a man fervent in spirit as serving the Lord? Where is our ancient zeale? Oh the cold Prayers, frozen Sacraments, &c. It is possible to find a living Christian, but where shall we find a Christian lively and active in Gods service? Remember God will spue out of his mouth a lukewarme Laodicean, 1which is a remarkeable place: For that which we spue out, we doe it with delight; we choose some dirty ⟨p. 25⟩corner to ease our stomacks in, and we never reassume what we once spue out: And all this to signifie; That God will for ever cast off with delight, and with shame and confusion, a cold, dead, lukewarme Christian, especially in these active times.
- 1Rev. 3.