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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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2. The things mentioned concerning these persons.
1. It is said they dyed. These all dyed [Greek or Hebrew]. Though they lived long, and many score of years longer than we now do, yet they dyed at last. Though they were very godly, and religious persons, though very noble, and honourable persons, yet they dyed. These all dyed.
1. It is said they dyed. These all dyed 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Though they lived long, and many score of years longer than we now do, yet they dyed at last. Though they were very godly, and religious persons, though very noble, and honourable persons, yet they dyed. These all dyed.
2. It is said, That they dyed in faith, [Greek or Hebrew]. They died according to the faith in which they lived, [Greek or Hebrew] is here put for [Greek or Hebrew], or [Greek or Hebrew] as ver. 9. 11, 17. 1They died according to the faith; that is, in the faith, in •ide, seu •ide, seu per fidem. If you would know what this faith was in which they died, you must take notice of what followeth in the text—not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that, &c. God had promised that the Messiah should come of their seed, and that in him all the nations of the world 2should be blessed. God had promised that he would give them the land of Canaan, and not only an earthly, but an heavenly Canuan. Now all these died, persuaded of the truth of these promises, embracing,