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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 4: Doctrine 4.
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1That it is not enough for a Christian to live in the faith, ⟨p. 16⟩but he must also die in the faith. This text takes notice of the constancy and perseverance of these holy men. They persevered in the faith unto the end maugre all oppositions and temptations to the contrary. They did live in the faith, and continued living in the faith, and as they lived so they died. These all dyed in faith. Perseverance in grace is maximum donum Dei (saith Austin) the greatest of Gods gifts, or graces, without which no other gift, or grace, will avail unto salvation. Therefore Christ saith, he that 2endureth to the end shall be saved. And be thou faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life. No grace will make us worthy to obtain the crown of glory, but perseverance: he that would go to heaven must not only live well, but die well. Though a man continue never so long in holiness, yet if he fall away before his death, all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned; in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he dye. If Methuselah who lived nine hundred sixty nine years had fallen away from grace the last year of his life he had been undone for ever.
1That it is not enough for a Christian to live in the faith, ⟨p. 16⟩but he must also die in the faith. This text takes notice of the constancy and perseverance of these holy men. They persevered in the faith unto the end maugre all oppositions and temptations to the contrary. They did live in the faith, and continued living in the faith, and as they lived so they died. These all dyed in faith. Perseverance in grace is maximum donum Dei (saith Austin) the greatest of Gods gifts, or graces, without which no other gift, or grace, will availe unto salvation. Therefore Christ saith, he that 2endureth to the end shall be saved. And be thou faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life. No grace will make us worthy to obtaine the crown of glory, but perseverance: he that would go to heaven must not only live well, but die well. Though a man continue never so long in holinesse, yet if he fall away before his death, all his righteousnesse that he hath done shall not be mentioned; in his trespasse that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned in them shall he dye. If Methuselah who lived nine hundred sixty nine years had fallen away from grace the last year of his life he had been undone for ever.