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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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This is a necessary lesson in this Apostatizing age wherein so many sons of the morning, and children of high illumination are fallen into the darkness of sin, and error: ⟨p. 17⟩and many, who in outward appearance were as sixth stars, are now proved falling stars; in so much, that if Mr. Fox were alive again, he would see cause rather to write a book of Apostates than a book of Martyrs. And there are also some risen up amongst us, who (being many of them Apostatized themselves) begin to preach the Doctrine of the Apostasy of the Saints. Give me leave therefore to persuade you, 1. To be rooted and established in the Doctrine of Perseverance. 2. To practise the Doctrine of Perseverance.
This is a necessary lesson in this Apostatizing age wherein so many sons of the morning, and children of high illumination are fallen into the darknesse of sin, and errour: ⟨p. 17⟩and many, who in outward appearance were as fixt starres, are now proved falling starres; in so much, that if Mr. Fox were alive againe, he would see cause rather to write a book of Apostates than a book of Martyrs. And there are also some risen up amongst us, who (being many of them Apostatized themselves) begin to preach the Doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints. Give me leave therefore to perswade you, 1. To be rooted and established in the Doctrine of Perseverance. 2. To practise the Doctrine of Perseverance.
11. To be rooted and established in the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints. And to believe that whosoever is truly united unto Jesus Christ by a lively faith, shall be so preserved by Christ in the use of all Gospel-means, that he shall never totally and finally fall away. Christ Jesus at the day of judgement will have a complete body mystical, as well as natural. He will not loose any of his real members, for then his body should be incomplete. There was a book written in King James his days by Bertius, of the Apostasy of the Saints. This book the forenamed King calls (in a