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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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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 2letter written to the States of Holland) A book with a blasphemous title. And a learned Professor of Oxford calls it a book with an execrable title. And surely if it was blasphemous and execrable then, it is as bad now. I will not enter upon the controversy: there are books lately written to very good purpose for the justification of the doctrine of perseverance. To me it is sufficient; that God hath said it; and shall not he do it? he hath said, whom he justified, them he also glorified. He hath said, The servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. He hath said, my sheep hear my voice and I know them, and they follow me, and I will give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them o•t of my hand. My Father ⟨p. 18⟩which gave them me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand. He hath said, I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart 3from me. He hath said, Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth who are his, &c. Though Hymeneus and Philetas have not stood sure, yet the foundation of God standeth sure. He hath 4said, being confident in this very thing, that he that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ. And that we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. And whosoever is borne of God doth not commit 5