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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK, Baron of Leeze.
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.
Some children are blots and blemishes to their Parents, as Manasseh was to Hezekiah. My prayer for your Lordship is, that you may be an honour, glory, and crown of rejoicing to your Family, and by your godly and virtuous life make your Father (though dead) to enjoy a kind of happiness upon earth while you live. And that you may embalm his memory to posterity by the spices, and sweet odours of your godly life, and conversation.
Some children are blots and blemishes to their Parents, as Manasseh was to Hezekiah. My prayer for your Lordship is, that you may be an honour, glory, and crown of rejoycing to your Family, and by your godly and virtuous life make your Father (though dead) to enjoy a kind of happiness upon earth while you live. And that you may embalme his memory to posterity by the spices, and sweet odours of your godly life, and conversation.
It ought not to be forgotten, but for ever to be remembered, That your Lordship may not unfitly be called the Lords Passover. For when he took away by death your only son and heir, he passed over you, and instead of the Father ⟨image 3⟩took to himself the Grand-father. This remarkable Providence is alone sufficient to teach you to pass the time of your sojourning here in 1fear; and to purge out the old leaven of sin and iniquity, that you may be a new lump of sincerity and truth; and thereby have an undoubted interest 2in Christ your Passover, who was sacrificed for you.
It ought not to be forgotten, but for ever to be remembred, That your Lordship may not unfitly be called the Lords Passeover. For when he took away by death your only sonne and heire, he passed over you, and instead of the Father ⟨image 3⟩