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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32047	The noble-mans patterne of true and reall thankfulnesse presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, at their late solemne day of Thanksgiving, June 15, 1643 : for the discovery of a dangerous, desperate and bloody designe tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament and of the famous city of London / by Edmund Calamy ...	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1643 (1643)	Wing C260; ESTC R20268	43,210	65

times to know what Israel ought to doe It is wisedome to observe times so as to know our duty But it is damnable wickednesse to serve the times and not the Lord to ring changes as the times change 3. To reprove such that choose to serve themselves and not the Lord That set up themselves as God and doe whatsoever is good in their own eyes and make their wills their Scripture This is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} This is selfe worship and selfe Idolatry which is the greatest Idolatry of all It is the greatest curse under Heaven for God to give a man over to himselfe to live as he list Psalm 81. 11 12. Rom. 1. 26. I have read of one given over to the Devill for his good but never of any given over to himselfe but for his damnation And therefore Austin prayeth Lord deliver me from my selfe Let it be our prayer Lord give me not over to my selfe Fourthly I am to reprove such that choose to serve sinne and not the Lord It is one thing to be a sinner another thing to be a servant of sinne A servant of sinne is one that gives himselfe over to the service of sinne that is bound apprentise to sinne Observe the difference betweene Paul and Ahab Paul was sold under sinne but it was against his will But Ahab sold himselfe willingly to worke wickednesse Many such Ahabs that serve sinne as the Centurion servants served him If sinne bid goe they goe Such a slave was Herod to his Herodias Felix to his Drusilla Such servants are swearers and drunkards that are at the service of their Oathes and Cups There are many men that are slaves to the Mammon of iniquity That doe not only possesse money but are possessed of money that are had of money that with Iudas will sell Jesus Christ himselfe for 30. peeces of silver There are many that are slaves to their preferments that say with Agrippina concerning Nero Peream ego modo ille imperet That sell their part in Heaven to get a little honour here upon earth And to speake my mind plainely there are two sinnes which are as two mighty Loadstones to draw hundreds from the Parliaments side Covetousnesse and Ambition Could the Parliament feed these sinnes as well as they are fed at Oxford our miserable distractions would quickly be at an end What made Baalam goe to Balak At first he said If Balak would give me his house full of gold and silver I cannot goe beyond the word of the Lord but yet afterwards being mad after the wages of iniquity he went and did much hurt to Gods people but it was to his own ruine at last and this will be the end of all those that are the servants of sinne The Apostle speakes excellently For when ye were servants of sinne ye were free from righteousnesse What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death In which words the Apostle teacheth us that the service of sinne is both shamefull and damnable First it is shamefull For to serve sinne is to serve the Devill Ioh. 8. 44. Oh that the world would beleeve this that when they serve pride and covetousnesse and ambition c. they serve the Devill And therefore Cyprian brings in the Devill upbraiding Christ Ostende mihi tot servos qui tibi c. Shew me if thou canst so many servants that have served them so diligently and so willingly as I can shew that have served me If the Devill should appeare in humane shape you would think it horrible Idolatry to adore him and yet when you obey sinne you doe this and worser then this for sinne is worser then the Devill The Devill is Gods creature but sinne hath nothing of God in it Sinne is the Devils excrement as Barnard saith And it must needs be a loathsome service to be servant to so vile a thing Secondly It is a cursed and damnable service for the wages of sinne is death How comes it then to passe that sinne hath so many servants Because sinne deales with sinners as the Philistims did with Sampson First it puts out our eyes that we should not see the vilenesse and cursednesse of sinne and then it puts us in the mill to grind as sinnes slave And therefore Christ sent Paul to the Gentiles to open their eyes c. Acts 26. 18. This was his first worke The Lord open our eyes to see the shamefulnesse and damnablenesse of sinnes service 2. To reproove those that make Ioshuas choise but not with Ioshuas ingredients That choose to serve God but doe not serve him undividedly everlastingly sincerely zealously reverently c. We live in an age wherin God had never more servants and yet never lesse service as one saith There are many Divines but few that live like Divines So God hath many servants but few that doe him service There are some that divide betweene the service of God and the service of sinne like the false Mother that would have the child divided As Cambden reports of Redwald King of the East-saxons the first Prince of this Nation that was baptized yet in the same Church he had one Altar for Christian Religion another Altar for Heathenish religion So there are many such false-worshippers of God that divide the rooms of their soules betweene God and the Devill that sweare by God and by Malcham Zeph. 1. 5. that sometimes pray and sometimes curse that sometimes goe to Gods house sometimes to a Play-house that are of a Mungrill-religion halting betweene God and Baal Heteroclites in Religion but God cannot endure this division This is to set thy threshold by Gods threshold Ezek. 43. 8. This is to set the Arke and Dagon together which God will never endure God cares not for one halfe of thy heart if sinne and the Devill hath the other halfe There are others that serve God but their service is but as a morning cloud and as an early dew it quickly vanisheth of whom I may say justly that which Nabal did unjustly of David There are many servants now a dayes that breake away every man from his Master Many now a dayes and more in our dayes then in former dayes We live in an Apostatizing age wherein there are many falling Starres but few fixed Starres Many that were once whiter then milke as Rubies and polished Saphires in regard of their glorious profession but now they are blacker then acoale they are withered and become like a stick That were yesterday Gods people but to day are turned enemies To these I say as S. Peter doth Better they had never known the way of righteousnesse c. 2 Pet. 2. 20. This relapse makes thy condition the worse as relapses in all kinds are most dangerous And it is also a signe thou esteemest the service of sinne

was a designe to bring the Army up against London God did then deliver us And when we were in the valley of the red horse as it is called neare Edge-hill where the Enemy thought to have cast us downe the Hill as the Iewes would have served Christ then God did also deliverus And for this cause we are here this Day to praise God for a wonderfull and miraculous Deliverance And therefore wee may confidently say with the Apostle 2 Corinth 1. 10. Who delivered us this day from so great a death and doth deliver in whom wee trust that he will yet deliver us It is observable that when Moses went up to the Mount to pray hee tooke the Rod of God in his hand The reason is given because by that Rod God had formerly done wonderfull things for his people and the very sight of that Rod did incourage Moses to trust in God from the experience of his former goodnesse Let us never goe to our prayers but let us carry the Rod of God in our hand and heart I meane the solemne and serious contemplation of this dayes Deliverance and of Gods former wonderfull goodnesse and let us say with the Apostle 2 Tim. 4. 17 18. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthned me c. and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion And the Lord shall deliver me from every evill worke and will preserve me unto his heavenly Kingdome to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen Amen FINIS Theod. Ps. 50. 23. Ps. 33. 1. Ps. 147. 1. 2 Chron. 33. 16. Doctr. The first part of the explication 1 Chro. 28 12 19. Mat. 15 9. Col. 2 23. Col. 2. 18. Quest Answ. 1. Ier. 17. 10. Mat. 14. 51. Act 16 7. Deut. 29. 1 Act. 13. 22. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The second part of the Explication Luk. 1. 74 75. 1 Cor. 9. 7. Phll. 2. 7. Rom. 1. 31 The third part of the Explicatiō Why great men are bound to serve God as well as others Isa 40. 15. Chrys. Reasons why great men are to serve God rather the others Eccl. 7. 11. Use of Reprehensiō First to all men not excluding great men 1 Cor. 7. 23. Thus Ambrose Thus Chrysostone Ioh. 18. 19 * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 1 Chron. 12. 31. 1 Cor. 5. 5 Libera me Domine a me metipse Rom. 7. 21. Numb. 22. 18. 2 Pet. 2. 15. Rom. 6. 10 11. Object Answ. Vse 2. Of reprehension directed to all sorts Hos. 6. 4. 1 Sam. 25. 10. Lam. 4. 8. Mica 2. 8. Rev. 3. Heb. 1● 28. Mark 6. 20. Isa. 1. 12. Use of reprehension to great persons in particular 1 Kin. 2● 19. 2 Chro. 28 10. Act. 12. 1 Sam. 31. 5. Use of Exhortation First to all men not excluding great men Motives to perswade us to serve God with all the Ingredients Motive 2. Act. 5. 41. Phil. 1. 2● Motive 3. Quest Answ. Quest 2. Answ. 1. Quest Answ. Motive Ob. Answ. Use of Exhortation to Noblemen in particular Ps. 149 8. Ps. 104. 32 Revel. 19. 20. Psal. 103. 20. Rev. 15. 2. Rev. 14. 4. Florus Act. 13. 10 Commendation Kingdom A sixe-fold Exhortation to Noblemen in particular Heb. 10. 37. Lib. 8. Consess Mark 8. 38. Iam. 1. 8. Theod. Ier. 9. 2. Mark 5. 23. Esth. 4. 13 14. Mat. 27. 57. 58. Ier 38. 7. Gen. 6. 2 Sam. 6. 22. Iam. 2. 10. Luk. 12. 6. This objection answer was added to the Sermon to comfort us in regard of the death of M. Hāpden the newes of whose death came just to me as I was transcribing the incouragements from Gods providēce