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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 6: Doctrine 6.
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It is a rare blessing when there is a succession of godliness in a family; when godliness is entailed upon children, and children's children. When a man can say to God as Moses: O God thou art my God, and my Fathers God, and 1my Grand-Fathers God. There are many families in which there is a succession of drunkards, swearers, and adulterers, &c. in which sin and iniquity is entailed, of whom it may be said, my father was an adulterer, a drunkard, a scoffer at Religion, so was my grand-father and so am I. This is a sad pedigree. O labour for a holy succession. Let Parents write a fair copy to their children, let them live and dye in the true faith, and let children learn to follow such a copy. Let husbands be patterns and examples of godliness to their wives; and let wives follow their good examples. Let wives imitate Sarah, Parents Abraham, and children Isaac and Jacob. Let us and ours so live, that when we come to die, it may be said of us, not that we died in our sins, but as it is in the text that we died in the faith. These all died in faith.
It is a rare blessing when there is a succession of godlinesse in a family; when godlinesse is entailed upon children, and childrens children. When a man can say to God as Moses: O God thou art my God, and my Fathers God, and 1my Grand-Fathers God. There are many families in which there is a succession of drunkards, swearers, and adulterers, &c. in which sin and iniquity is entailed, of whom it may be said, my father was an adulterer, a drunkard, a scoffer at Religion, so was my grand-father and so am I. This is a sad pedegree. O labour for a holy succession. Let Parents write a faire copy to their children, let them live and dye in the true faith, and let children learne to follow such a copy. Let husbands be patternes and examples of godlinesse to their wives; and let wives follow their good examples. Let wives imitate Sarah, Parents Abraham, and children Isaac and Jacob. Let us and ours so live, that when we come to die, it may be said of us, not that we died in our sins, but as it is in the text that we died in the faith. These all died in faith.
- 1Exod. 15.