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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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7. That after death comes judgement, and after judgement everlasting happiness, or everlasting misery. Death is nothing else but a passage to judgement. A thorough-fare to heaven, or hell.
7. That after death comes judgement, and after judgement everlasting happinesse, or everlasting misery. Death is nothing else but a passage to judgement. A thorough-fare to heaven, or hell.
Did we consider these things, and consider them seriously as we ought to do, it would work very many gracious and most glorious effects in us. Therefore Moses saith 1very emphatically: O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end; and prayeth very earnestly. So teach us O Lord to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. The very heathens have been much in the meditation of death. Plato tells us, that true Philosophy is nothing else but a meditation of death. The Egyptians in all their great feasts had a deaths-head served in as one dish, to teach them sobriety and temperance in eating and drinking. This meditation if sanctified will be
Did we consider these things, and consider them seriously as we ought to do, it would work very many gracious and most glorious effects in us. Therefore Moses saith 1very emphatically: O that men were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end; and prayeth very earnestly. So teach us O Lord to number our dayes, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. The very heathens have been much in the meditation of death. Plato tells us, that true Philosophy is nothing else but a meditation of death. The Egyptians in all their great feasts had a deaths-head served in as one dish, to teach them sobrietie and temperance in eating and drinking. This meditation if sanctified will be
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