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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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3. They shall never be rid of the body of sin, till they put off the body of the flesh.
4. They shall never be perfected in grace till they die.
5. They shall never see God face to face, never be with Christ in glory till they die. They shall never be clothed with the house which is from above, till they be unclothed of their earthly Tabernacle. Therefore blessed be God that they must die. For if they had hope only in this life, they were of all people most miserable.
5. They shall never see God face to face, never be with Christ in glory till they die. They shall never be cloathed with the house which is from above, till they be uncloathed of their earthly Tabernacle. Therefore blessed be God that they must die. For if they had hope only in this life, they were of all people most miserable.
1O that I could persuade the people of God to look upon death with a pair of Scripture-spectacles. Death in it self considered, is the King of terrors, and of all