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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.
But besides this; There are two other reasons why God will be sure to punish great men when they are great offenders.
1. Because the punishing of great men doth a great deal more good then the punishing of others. For hereby it appears, that God is no respectre of persons: Tribulation ⟨p. 29⟩and anguish upon every soul that doth evil, and first upon the Rulers and Nobles, and then upon others. And hereby also inferiors and poor people are kept under subjection to Gods law, when they perceive that their superiors cannot escape without Gods severe chastisement. As in a School, when the Master picks out one of the greatest youths in the School and whips him for a fault, all the little boys sit and tremble, and learn to avoid those faults for which they see their betters punished. Thus when Goliath the great was slain, all the Philistims fled away presently. The beholding of Gods severe punishments upon great ones, will be a notable Sermon to make inferiors godly and religious.
1. Because the punishing of great men doth a great deale more good then the punishing of others. For hereby it appeares, that God is no respecter of persons: Tribulation ⟨p. 29⟩and anguish upon every soule that doth evill, and first upon the Rulers and Nobles, and then upon others. And hereby also inferiours and poore people are kept under subjection to Gods law, when they perceive that their superiours cannot escape without Gods severe chastisement. As in a Schoole, when the Master picks out one of the greatest youths in the Schoole and whips him for a fault, all the little boyes sit and tremble, and learne to avoid those faults for which they see their betters punished. Thus when Goliah the great was slaine, all the Philistimes fled away presently. The beholding of Gods severe punishments upon great ones, will be a notable Sermon to make inferiours godly and religious.