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A pattern for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how…A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how…
A pattern for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemn interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honourably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1658
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A SERMON Preached at the Funeral OF THE Right Honourable ROBERT EAR… › Doctrine 5: Doctrine 5.
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That you must not only labour to die with a true faith, 1but with a full assurance of faith; not only to die believing, but fully assured that your faith is of a right stamp. This is a heaven upon earth. This will put you into heaven before you come to heaven. This will cause you to die rejoicingly and triumphantly, as Stephen did, when he saw the heavens opened, and Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive him; And as old Simeon did with Christ in your spiritual arms, and singing a Nunc dimittis, Now Lord let thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have ⟨p. 29⟩seen thy salvation. This then is thy great work O Christian, industriously to endeavour, that when thou comest to die thou mayest die in the true doctrine, and true grace of faith, and in the full assurance of faith, that so thou mayst 2have an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
That you must not only labour to die with a true faith, 1but with a full assurance of faith; not only to die bel•eving, but fully assured that your faith is of a right stamp. This is a heaven upon earth. This will put you into heaven before you come to heaven. This will cause you to die rejoycingly and triumphantly, as Stephen did, when he saw the heavens opened, and Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive him; And as old Simeon did with Christ in your spiritual armes, and singing a Nunc dimittis, Now Lord let thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have ⟨p. 29⟩seen thy salvation. This then is thy great work O Christian, industriously to endeavour, that when thou comest to die thou mayest die in the true doctrine, and true grace of faith, and in the full assurance of faith, that so thou mayst 2have an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.