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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.
They do more hurt two ways, by imitation, and by imputation.
They doe more hurt two wayes, by imitation, and by imputation.
1. By imitation; Therefore Jeroboam is said to make all Israel to sin, because his Idolatrous example made all Israel to sin. When Saul fell upon his Sword, his Armourbearer seeing the King to do so,1 fell also upon his Sword and killed himself. When great men fall into sin, they fall as men that fall in a crowd, drawing many others down with them. The Persians thought a crooked Nose to be a great ornament, because their Emperor ⟨p. 28⟩Cyrus had a crooked Nose. And because Alexander the Great had a wry Neck, his Courtiers did all strive to go awry with their Necks. The bodies of men are not so subject to be infected by the illness of the air, as the souls of men by the vices of their Rulers.
1. By imitation; Therefore Ieroboam is said to make all Israel to sinne, because his Idolatrous example made all Israel to sinne. When Saul fell upon his Sword, his Armourbearer seeing the King to doe so,1 fell also upon his Sword and killed himselfe. When great men fall into sinne, they fall as men that fall in a croud, drawing many others downe with them. The Persians thought a crooked Nose to be a great ornament, because their Emperour ⟨p. 28⟩Cyrus had a crooked Nose. And because Alexander the Great had a wry Neck, his Courtiers did all strive to goe awry with their Necks. The bodies of men are not so subject to be infected by the illnesse of the aire, as the soules of men by the vices of their Rulers.