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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.
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,
2. Why God abhorreth all our fastings, and prayers, and Sacraments; or why God saith to our services as he did to the Jews; To what purpose is the multitude of your services? I am weary of them, 1&c. Because we serve God with lip-service only, and knee service, we serve him negligently, and partially, and coldly. Or,
2. Why God abhorreth all our fastings, and prayers, and Sacraments; or why God saith to our services as he did to the Iewes; To what purpose is the multitude of your services? I am weary of them, 1&c. Because we serve God with lip-service onely, and knee service, we serve him negligently, and partially, and coldly. Or,