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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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2. Let me persuade you not only to believe, but to practise the doctrine of perseverance: For there are Divers learned men that are so much scandalized at the great Apostasy of some eminent professors in our unhappy days, that they begin to be staggered, and to doubt of the truth of the doctrine of Perseverance. But these men forget the saying of the Apostle, They went out from 1us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. For my part, I conceive, that these Reverend and learned men should rather doubt of the truth of their graces whom they see thus foully to A postatize, than of the truth of the Doctrine of Perseverance. But howsoever, let us take ⟨p. 22⟩heed of laying this stumbling block: least by our practical Apostasy men should begin to turn Doctrinal Apostates. Let us labour to dye well, as well as to live well, to continue and persevere in well-doing. It is the great commendation of the Saints in the text, That they died in the faith. These all dyed in faith. Remember what Christ 2saith, No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking 3back is fit for the Kingdom of God. And what the Apostle Paul saith: If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him: but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, &c. And what the Apostle Peter saith▪ 4It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy 5commandment delivered to them, &c. Remember also Lots wife. She did only look back, she did not go back, and yet she was turned into a pillar of salt. As God hath fire and brimstone for a Sodomite, so he hath a pillar of salt for an Apostate.