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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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But besides these, there are proper and peculiar reasons why the godly must die not only as well, but rather than others. For,
1. They shall never be freed from sickness, sorrow, and laborious employments. They shall never have all tears wiped from their eyes till they die.
1. They shall never be freed from sicknesse, sorrow, and laborious employments. They shall never have all teares wiped from their eyes till they die.
2. They shall never be free from the persecutions of wicked and ungodly men, and from the temptations of the devil till they die.
3. They shall never be rid of the body of sin, till they put off the body of the flesh.