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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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1. In his own person: For he was very exact in closet duties. I have been often with him at private prayer in his closet in which he was very zealous and devout. And he hath left behind him real manifestations of his personal ⟨p. 35⟩piety, by many religious collections written with his own hand for the good of his soul.
1. In his own person: For he was very exact in closet duties. I have been often with him at private prayer in his closet in which he was very zealous and devout. And he hath left behinde him reall manifestations of his personal ⟨p. 35⟩piety, by many religious collections written with his own hand for the good of his soul.
2. In reference to his dear and near relations, both by giving them a good example, and good instructions. And my prayer to God is; that though the instructor be deceased, yet the instructions may live, and never die.
2. In reference to his deare and neare relations, both by giving them a good example, and good instructions. And my prayer to God is; that though the instructor be deceased, yet the instructions may live, and never die.
3. In his family-government. For he was very constant in his morning and evening public service of God, and herein a rare pattern to the Gentry of the Country: He would not suffer any sports or pastimes to divert him from his daily public devotions. It is a great honour to God, and credit to Religion when there is a form and outside (though but a form and outside) of godliness in great families. This is like a candle set upon a hill to enlighten all inferior families. It is reported of Theodosius the Emperor, that by his religious carriage in his family, he made all his Court a nursery of religion. And it is said of the house of George Prince of Anhalt, that for the good