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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Dedication: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK, Baron of Leeze.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARLE of WARWICK, Baron of Leeze.
Right Honourable,
The noble favours which I received from your deceased father, are so many, that I can never sufficiently express them, and (I hope) shall never be so ungrateful as to forget them. The chiefest requital I can now make for them, is to pray for your Lordship, That as you are his heir, and inherit his estate, so you may also inherit his virtues; And that whatsoever was good in him, may live in you.
THe noble favours which I received from your deceased father, are so many, that I can never sufficiently expresse them, and (I hope) shall never be so ungrateful as to forget them. The chiefest requital I can now make for them, is to pray for your Lordship, That as you are his heire, and inherit his estate, so you may also inherit his virtues; And that whatsoever was good in him, may live in you.
For as it is a happiness, when a son is descended from religious Ancestors (he being hereby made partaker of their good counsels, prayers, ⟨image 3⟩and pious examples) so also it is an invaluable blessing, when a father hath religious and virtuous