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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 according to their own fancies, that are more zealous for one superstitious invention, then for all Gods commandments: You shall know such by this mark, They that are so much for superstitious forms of godliness, do most hate those that have the true power of godliness. The Pharisees were the deadliest enemies Christ had, And the Jews stirred up the devout women to persecute Paul, Acts 13. 50.
Others serve God, but it is according to their own fancies, that are more zealous for one superstitious invention, then for all Gods commandements: You shall know such by this marke, They that are so much for superstitious formes of godlinesse, doe most hate those that have the true power of godlinesse. The Pharisees were the deadliest enemies Christ had, And the Iewes stirred up the devout women to persecute Paul, Acts 13. 50.
By all this that hath bin said, you may perceive the reason;
1. Why God hath so many servants, and yet so few servants that he delights in; because there are so few that serve him undividedly, everlastingly, inconditionally, zealously. Or,