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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.
Secondly, By imputation; For though it be a certain truth, That God never punisheth an innocent Nation, The soul that sinneth shall dye: Yet it is as certain; That God doth oftentimes take an occasion to punish a sinful Nation, by imputing the punishment of the Rulers sin upon the people, or rather by punishing the people for their sins, and the Ruler in the people. Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi. David had sinned in numbering the people, and for this sin 70000. of his people must perish by the plague. No doubt the Israelites were grievous sinners, and so it is expressly said, 2 Sam. 24. 1. But the most just God at the same time, punished the people and David also in the loss of his subjects. As it is no wrong in a Judge to make the back of a Thief pay for the sin which his hand hath committed, no more is it injustice in God to punish the members of a politic body when the head is in fault; So near is the union between Prince and people, and so prone are the people to follow the sins of their Princes, and so to partake of their punishments. And therefore if the sins of great men bring poor people into miseries, it is just and equal that great men should be brought into misery for those sins for which they bring others into misery.
Secondly, By imputation; For though it be a certaine truth, That God never punisheth an innocent Nation, The soule that sinneth shall dye: Yet it is as certaine; That God doth oftentimes take an occasion to punish a sinnefull Nation, by imputing the punishment of the Rulers sinne upon the people, or rather by punishing the people for their sinnes, and the Ruler in the people. Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi. David had sinned in numbring the people, and for this sinne 70000. of his people must perish by the plague. No doubt the Israelites were grievous sinners, and so it is expresly said, 2 Sam. 24. 1. But the most just God at the same time, punished the people and David also in the losse of his subjects. As it is no wrong in a Judge to make the back of a Theefe pay for the sinne which his hand hath committed, no more is it injustice in God to punish the members of a politick body when the head is in fault; So neere is the union betweene Prince and people, and so prone are the people to follow the sinnes of their Princes, and so to partake of their punishments. And therefore if the sinnes of great men bring poore people into miseries, it is just and equall that great men should be brought into misery for those sinnes for which they bring others into misery.