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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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I have done with the text. But there is another text of which I must of necessity speak something. And that is concerning the sad occasion of our meeting here this day. Give me leave to speak to you in the language of 1David concerning Abner: Know you not that there is a Prince, a great man fallen this day in Israel? and in the ⟨p. 32⟩language of the children of Seth concerning Abraham, 2A Lord and a mighty Prince is this day to be buried: One who had so much worth and excellency in him, that whosoever will undertake to speak of him needs not fear (as Nazianzen saith of his sister Gorgonia) least he should spea• too much, but rather least he should speak too little, and 3by coming so far beneath his due deserts, should dispraise him, even whilst he is praising of him.
I have done with the text. But there is another text of which I must of necessity speak something. And that is concerning the sad occasion of our meeting here this day. Give me leave to speak to you in the language of 1David concerning Abner: Know you not that there is a Prince, a great man fallen this day in Israel? and in the ⟨p. 32⟩language of the children of Seth concerning Abraham, 2A Lord and a mighty Prince is this day to be buried: One who had so much worth and excellency in him, that whosoever will undertake to speak of him needs not feare (as Nazianzen saith of his sister Gorgonia) least he should spea• too much, but rather least he should speak too little, and 3by coming so farre beneath his due deserts, should dispraise him, even whil'st he is praising of him.