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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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for they live as if their lives were riveted upon eternity, and as if they should never come to a reckoning. Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur, Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret. Let us supplicate unto God, That he would teach us effectually to remember our frailty, and to consider that there will come a dying time, and that it will come certainly, shortly, uncertainly, suddenly and irresistibly.
for they live as if their lives were riveted upon eternitie, and as if they should never come to a reckoning. Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur, Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret. Let us supplicate unto God, That he would teach us effectually to remember our frailtie, and to consider that there will come a dying time, and that it will come certainly, shortly, uncertainly, suddenly and irresistibly.
1. That it will come certainly. There is an oporte• for 1it. We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, &c. There is nothing certain in life but death.
2. That it will come very shortly. It is not long, but 1we must all go down to the house of rottenness. This life is but as an hand-breadth, as a vapour, &c. swifter than a post, and passeth away as the swift ships, and as the Eagle that hasteth to the prey, it is nothing else but a salve vale.