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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.
Others serve God, but it is with such horrible irreverence and negligence, such sleepiness, such laziness, as that we would account it a great indignity to be so served by any of our own servants. I read that Caesar spake to one that was afraid to give him too much respect, Hic homo timet timere Caesarem, This man is afraid to be afraid of Caesar. So there are many that are afraid to be too reverent in Gods service: And indeed a man may be too reverent with superstitious reverence, which is irreverence in Gods esteem. But to be Reverend with Scripture Reverence, both inward and outward, this is so necessary,1 as that God will not accept of our service without it.
Others serve God, but it is with such horrible irreverence and negligence, such sleepinesse, such lazinesse, as that we would account it a great indignity to be so served by any of our own servants. I read that Caesar spake to one that was afraid to give him too much respect, Hic homo timet timere Caesarem, This man is afraid to be afraid of Caesar. So there are many that are afraid to be too reverent in Gods service: And indeed a man may be too reverent with superstitious reverence, which is irreverence in Gods esteeme. But to be Reverend with Scripture Reverence, both inward and outward, this is so necessary,1 as that God will not accept of our service without it.
- 1Heb. 1•. 28.
Augustus spake to one that entertained him with homely entertainment, Who made you and I so familiar? We must so serve God as to remember our distance; Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord negligently.