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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.
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.
1But what must I do that I may be able to make this gallant and noble end?
- 1Quest.
1He that would die in the faith, must first live in the faith. For if you observe it, it is not said in the text, that all without limitation died in faith. But all these: that is, all those who lived in the faith, died in the same faith in which they lived: These blessed Patriarchs had not their faith to get when they came to die, but they had got it in health. They lived a holy life, and died a happy death.
1He that would die in the faith, must first live in the faith. For if you observe it, it is not said in the text, that all without limitation died in faith. But all these: that is, all those who lived in the faith, died in the same faith in which they lived: These blessed Patriarks had not their faith to get when they came to die, but they had got it in health. They lived a holy life, and died a happy death.
- 1Answ.
Life and death for the most part are like the voice and the echo, the body and the shadow. Such as the voice is, such is the echo. Such as the body is, such is the shadow. Qualis vita, finis ita. If we would die happily, we must live holily. If we would die gloriously, we must live graciously. If we would go to Christ when we die, we must get into Christ while we live. If we would die with assurance, we must while we live labour to get assurance Woe be to those who have their faith to get when they are dying, that begin to amend their lives when they are putting an end to them. Woe be to those who begin to serve God when they can do him no service. That begin to live when they are ceasing to live. And sad is the condition of those, who have their evidences and comforts to seek when they are going out of the world. And yet