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The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their…
The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.
London: printed by S.G. for John Baker, 1657
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Religion doth not take away natural affection, but perfects it, it doth not extinguish,but order and regulate it. It is your great Duty to study to be blessings and Mercies, as to the places where you were brought up,so also to the places where you were born. 1It is reported of Alexander the great, that he loved his Master Aristotle,as much as he did his Father Philip; because (as he said) from his Father he received his being, and from his Master his well-being.I will not dispute, whether we owe more to the place where ⟨image 5⟩we were born, or to the place where we were bred, Sure I am. We owe much to both; and it is our duty to endeavour to be blessings both to the one, and to the other.
Religion doth not take away natural affection, butperfects it, it doth not extinguish,but order and regulateit. It is your great Dutyto study to be blessings andMercies, as to the placeswhere you were brought up,so also to the places where youwere born. 1It is reported ofAlexander the great, that he loved his Master Aristostle,as much as he did hisFather Philip; because (as he said) from his Father hee received his being, and from his Master his wel-being.I will not dispute, whether we owe more to the place where ⟨image 5⟩we were born, or to the place where we were bred, Sure I am. We owe much to both; and it is our duty to endeavour to beblessings both to the one, and to the other.
- 1Aristotelem ha•d minus quam Patrem suum initio dilexit, quod a Patre, ut viveret, a Praeceptore, ut bene viveret, accepisset Pezelius.
It is a Providence not to be slighted, that you are Citizens of no mean City, but this will little avail, if you be not a credit and an ornament to it. The excellency of a City consisteth in the excellency of the Citizens; without which an excellent City is rather a Bethaven, than a Bethel, rather an Hell, than a Heaven. Human stories relate what great blessings