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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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5. That it comes irresistibly like pain upon a woman with child, 1 Thes. 5. 3. Death will not tarry till we be ready for it. The young man as Gregory the great relates it) when he saw he must die cried out, Inducias Domine usque ad mane, Lord tarry till to morrow; but God would not hear. Death comes unavoidably, and if it finds us unprovided, it sends us to hell without remedy. Add to this
5. That it comes irresistibly like paine upon a woman with childe, 1 Thes. 5. 3. Death will not tarry till we be ready for it. The young man as Gregory the great relates it) when he saw he must die cried out, Inducias Domine usque ad mane, Lord tarry till to morrow; but God would not heare. Death comes unavoidably, and if it findes us unprovided, it sends us to hell without remedy. Adde to this
6. It comes but once. It is appointed for all men once to die. When once dead, no living again to provide 1better for death. And therefore we had need be careful ⟨p. 7⟩ut semel pie moriamur (as Paraeus saith) that we may once die 2well; for we cannot live again upon earth to live better.
6. It comes but once. It is appointed for all men once to die. When once dead, no living againe to provide 1better for death. And therefore we had need be careful ⟨p. 7⟩