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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.
This Text reproves those that are advanced by God into great places of Honour and wealth,1 and that think themselves privileged by their greatness, to be greater in iniquity then in greatness, that make no other use of their greatness, but to sin without control; That are Great men, and Great swearers, Great adulterers, Great Atheists, Great scoffers and mockers at Godliness. Let these men know (if any such here,) That the great God is greater then the greatest. Gods laws are not like unto Cobwebs ⟨p. 27⟩(as it is said of mans Laws) to catch little flies, and let the great flies escape; but God will especially punish great men if they be great transgressors. And therefore Elijah tells Ahab, The dogs shall lick thy blood, thine even thine; 2And Obed tells the Princes of Judah, Are there not with you, 3even with you, sins against the Lord your God? God made great Nebuchadnezzar to graze like an Ox. Great Agag was hewed in pieces. God hath his hand-writing upon the wall, to make the great Belshazzars of the earth to tremble, whilst they are carousing in their sacrilegious cups: Great Herod to whom the people cried, It is the voice of God not of man, 4was eaten up of worms, repeating these words in the midst of his torments, as Josephus reports, Behold ye me that seemed to you as a god, how miserably I am enforced to depart from you all. In the Old World there were Giants and mighty Anakims, men great in power, and greater in sin; Their sins were Giant-like, and God sent a mighty flood to destroy them. The sins of Superiors, as they are more visible then the sins of inferiors (as the Eclipse of the Sun is sooner seen then the Eclipse of a Star; and a wart upon the face is sooner seen then upon another part,) so also they do a great deal more hurt, and therefore their condemnation shall be the greater.
This Text reproves those that are advanced by God into great places of Honour and wealth,1