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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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3. Uncertainly, as to the time when, the place where, and the manner how. Your Almanacs will tell you when the next Eclipse of the Sun and Moon will be. But there is no Almanacs will tell you when the Eclipse of your lives will be. This comes uncertainly; And therefore 1uncertainly, to provoke us to be always ready, because we know not in what hour the Son of man will come, Matth. 24. 42, 44.
3. Uncertainly, as to the time when, the place where, and the manner how. Your Almanacks will tell you when the next Eclipse of the Sunne and Moone will be. But there is no Almanacks will tell you when the Eclipse of your lives will be. This comes uncertainly; And therefore 1uncertainly, to provoke us to be always ready, because we know not in what hour the Son of man will come, Matth. 24. 42, 44.
- 1Ideo dies unus celatur ut expectentur omnes.
4. That oftentimes it comes suddenly like a thief in the night, 1 Thief. 5. 2. Like an evil 1net in which the fishes of the sea, and a secret snare in which the birds of the air are suddenly caught, Eccles. 9. 12. Luk. 21. 35. Psal. 73. 19.