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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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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 1body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. If I do it not out of love to God, but out of love to my self and mine own praise, it is nothing worth. But he that dyeth in the Lord is certainly blessed.
It is a greater happinesse 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 1body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. If I do it not out of love to God, but out of love to my selfe and mine own praise, it is nothing worth. But he that dyeth in the Lord is certainly blessed.
1The only use I shall make of this, is to beseech the New Testament Saints to follow this Old Testament copy and pattern. You have been often taught how to live well, give me leave to teach you this day how to dye well. It is not long but you must all die. Let it be your care, that when you come to die, you may die in the faith of the Lord Jesus. There is a double faith in which you must labour to die; In fide quae creditur & quâ creditur. 1. In the true doctrine of faith. 2. In the saving grace of faith.