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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 1: Doctrine 1.
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That though a man liveth never so long, yet he must die at last. These all dyed though they lived long. Abraham lived one hundred seventy five years, Isaac one hundred eighty, Jacob one hundred forty seven, and yet died at last. Before the flood, some lived seven ⟨p. 4⟩hundred, others eight hundred, others nine hundred years▪ but it is added as the common Epitaph of them all, Mortuus est, he dyed, Gen. 5. 8, 14, 17, 20, 31. Death is the haven of every man, whether King, or beggar, rich, or poor. 1Death is the gulf which will swallow us all up. Length of time cannot prescribe against death. The longest day will have a night, and the longest life a death. This life is nothing else but prolixitas mortis (as one saith) or tendentia ad mortem. A lingering kind of death, or a pacing, or journeying to death. Some have a longer journey than others, but all must come to their journeys end at last. There is a statute in heaven for it, Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to dye. And death is called the house appointed for all living, Job 30. 23. And the way of all the earth, 1 King. 2. 2. All flesh is grass, Isa. 40. 6.