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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 5: Doctrine 5.
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2. A dying in faith. This is a noble, gallant and blessed manner of dying; heaven it self bears witness to this, Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me write, Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord, that is, united unto the Lord Jesus Christ by a true and a lively ⟨p. 26⟩faith. Such as these are happy, if you will either believe a voice from heaven, or the voice of the Spirit, for it followeth in the text—so saith the Spirit. And they are blessed from the very instant of their death. So it is in the same place—from henceforth [Greek or Hebrew] from that very minute: for their souls go immediately to God to enjoy perfect and perpetual rest and happiness, and their works follow them.
2. A dying in faith. This is a noble, gallant and blessed manner of dying; heaven it selfe beares witnesse to this, Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voyce from heaven, saying unto me write, Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord, that is, united unto the Lord Jesus Christ by a true and a lively ⟨p. 26⟩faith. Such as these are happy, if you will either beleeve a voyce from heaven, or the voyce of the Spirit, for it followeth in the text—so saith the Spirit. And they are blessed from the very instant of their death. So it is in the same place—from henceforth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 from that very minute: for their souls go immediately to God to enjoy perfect and perpetual rest and happinesse, and their works follow them.
It is a greater happiness to die in the Lord than to die for the Lord. If a man die for the Lord, and be not in the Lord, he is not blessed in his death. A man may die for the Lords cause, and not for the Lords sake, but out of vainglory. This is hinted by the Apostle, Though I give my