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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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That I have just ground in charity to believe, that this Noble Earle was not only under the awe of Religion, but ⟨p. 34⟩that he had the substance, and power of it in his heart. And therefore his death is the more to be lamented by us, because that goodness and greatness do so seldom centre in one and the same person. In the God of heaven they both meet. He is optimus, maximus; infinite in goodness, as well as in greatness. But in the Gods upon earth they rarely meet: They are many of them pessimi maximi, greater in vices than in riches. It was a bold speech of Buchanan to King James, who sent a messenger to him when he was dying to visit him, and to know how he did; Buchanan desired the messenger to tell the King, 1That he was going to a place where few Kings come. Indeed the Scripture saith, Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But yet some are, though not many. Such a one was Job, the greatest, and the best man in the East. Such were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Such was Joseph of Arimathea. And such a one was (I hope) Robert Earle of Warwick: And therefore the loss of him is the greater. For great men are like looking glasses according to which all the country dress themselves, and if they be good they do a world of good. 2When Crispus the chief Ruler of the Synagogue believed, many of the Corinthians hearing of it believed also. When Shechem and Hamor were circumcised they quickly persuaded their people to be circumcised.
That I have just ground in charity to beleeve, that this Noble Earle was not only under the awe of Religion, but ⟨p. 34⟩that he had the substance, and power of it in his heart. And therefore his death is the more to be lamented by us, because that goodnesse and greatnesse do so seldome center in one and the same person. In the God of heaven they both meet. He is optimus, maximus; infinite in goodness, as well as in greatnesse. But in the Gods upon earth they rarely meet: They are many of them pessimi maximi, greater in vices than in riches. It was a bold speech of Buchanan to King James, who sent a messenger to him when he was dying to visite him, and to know how he did; Buchanan desired the messenger to tell the King,