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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. In the saving grace of faith. He that dieth with faith in Christ, shall certainly go to live in heaven with Christ. He that dieth embracing Christ, shall go from Christ, to Christ; from Christ by grace, to Christ in glory.
But then you must be sure that this faith be a true justifying-faith. A heart-purifying, sanctifying, and world-overcoming faith. A painted faith will never bring you to a real heaven. A dead faith will never please a living God. 1Faith without works will send a man merrily to hell instead of lifting him up to heaven. It is faith unfeigned, the faith of Gods elect, the faith which worketh by lov•, which will make the hour of death desirable and comfortable. And let me add
But then you must be sure that this faith be a true justifying-faith. A heart-purifying, sanctifying, and world-overcoming faith. A painted faith will never bring you to a real heaven. A dead faith will never please a living God. 1Faith without works will send a man merrily to hell instead of lifting him up to heaven. It is faith unfaigned, the faith of Gods elect, the faith which worketh by lov•, which will make the houre of death desireable and comfortable. And let me adde
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