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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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Now then, if God the Father hath decreed the perseverance 1of the Saints; if he hath promised that they shall persevere, and that he will enable them by his power unto it. If God the Son hath prayed that the faith of all those who were given to him by the Father should not fail, and if he ever liveth to make intercession for them, that they may never utterly fall. If God the holy Ghost ⟨p. 19⟩be given to the Saints to abide in them for ever, and if the seed of God abides in them to keep them from total and final Apostasy; then we may safely conclude; that the Doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints is most agreeable to Scripture, and that it is our duty to be steadfast and unmoveable in it.
Now then, if God the Father hath decreed the perseverance 1of the Saints; if he hath promised that they shall persevere, and that he will enable them by his power unto it. If God the Son hath prayed that the faith of all those who were given to him by the Father should not faile, and if he ever liveth to make intercession for them, that they may never utterly fall. If God the holy Ghost ⟨p. 19⟩be given to the Saints to abide in them for ever, and if the seed of God abides in them to keep them from total and final Apostacy; then we may safely conclude; that the Doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints is most agreeable to Scripture, and that it is our duty to be stedfast and unmoveable in it.
- 1Sanctam Ecclesiam Christus secundum praescientiae suae gratiam de in aeternum permansuris sanctis construxit. Greg. in Cantic. cap. 3. Aurum, quod pravis Diaboli persuasionibus sterni, ficut lutum, potuerit, aurum ante oculos Dei nunquam suit; & qui seduci quandoque non reversuri poss•nt, quasi habitam sanctitatem ante oculos hominum videntur a•ittere, sed cam ante oculos Dei nunquam habuerunt. Grg. Mor. lib. 34. cap. 13.