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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

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 Iune 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 B.D. Pastor of Aldermanbury in LONDON Published by Order of that House LUK. 1. 74 75. That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without feare in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of our life LONDON Printed by G. M. for Christopher Meredith at the Signe of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard M.DC.XLIII TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE House of LORDS Assembled in PARLIAMENT IF all Noble-men were as good and religious as they are presented to the World in the Epistles prefixed to the Books that are dedicated to them we should not have so much cause to complaine of great mens Iniquities or of poore mens flatteries S. Augustine in his Booke of Retractations Retracts it as a great fault that when he dedicated a Booke to Mallius Theodorus he praised him more then he deserved though he confesseth that he was doctus vir Christianus a Learned and Christian man It is none of the least miseries of great men that they want faithfull friends to tell them their vices as well as their vertues King Ahab had 400. flattering Prophets who were the cause of his ruine Hence is that old Proverbe that there are onely two things that never flatter great men Death and Horses For Death seizeth upon great as well as small And a Horse will cast downe a great man as well as any other if he rides not well This Sermon speakes plaine language and this is the only Reason for ought I know that it received such kind acceptance for otherwise it wants that neatnesse of phrase and eloquence of speech which such Noble Auditors are accustomed unto I have often heard of Great men that complained upon their Death beds that none would tell them of their faults but never of any that complained hee was told too much Theodosius the great Emperour confesseth of S. Ambrose notwithstanding his severe carriage towards him Solum novi Ambrosium dignum Episcopi nomine That he knew none worthy of a Bishoprick but Ambrose It is a custome to send Sermons out unto publike view under the Patronage of some Noble-man or other This Sermon hath this preheminence That it comes forth under the Patronage and by the commands not only of one Lord but of a House of Lords The Lord make it to obtaine that end for which it was preached That you my Lords may make Joshua's choise your choise The subject matter of the Sermon is very common and ordinary But herein I follow the example of Chrysostome who when he was made Patriarch of Constantinople the first Sermon that he preached before the Emperour Arcadius and the great Courtiers was a Sermon of Repentance This is the message that I have received saith Chrysostome from my Master Christ to deliver unto you Repent for the Kingdome of God is at hand Haec autem non dubitabo vobis assiduè revocare in memoriam Haec neminem reverentes neque potentes aut divites timentes ad vos loquemur The Lord bestow this great grace of Repentance upon you and inable you to serve God with all the ingredients mentioned in the following Sermon Two things I would desire your Lordships alwayes to remember 1. That the best way of thankfulnesse for mercies received is to serve the God of those mercies and to serve him with the mercies we receive from him 2. That the best way for the House of Lords to prosper is to indeavour earnestly and faithfully to reforme the Lords House your own houses and first your selves Some things I have added which were not preached which relate to all men in generall as well as great men which I then omitted for brevity sake but have here interserted I hope without offence that so this Sermon which is printed for a generall good might have somethings in it tending to the good of all men as well as great men The Great God make the House of Lords as the House of the Lord wherein service may be done to God and for Gods cause So prayeth Your Honours much obliged Spirituall servant Edmund Calamy A THANKS-GIVING SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable the House of Lords Iosh. 24. 15. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord WE are here met this day to keepe a day of Thanks-giving to keepe a Heaven upon Earth to doe that for a day which is the worke of Angels and arch-Angels to all eternity We have had many dayes of Hosannah's and now we are to keepe one day of Hallelujah's It hath pleased God of his great goodnesse to discover a dangerous and desperate Plot tending to the utter subversion of the Parliament of the famous City of London of the Army of the whole Kingdome and which is above all to the utter ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion We are here assembled to give God the praise of this Deliverance Now that this duty may be performed after a pious and Christian manner to the praise of that God whom we come to praise I have chosen this Text For I am clearely of this opinion that as there is no duty more excellent then this of Thanks-giving For it is the duty of Heaven and not only so but the preferment of Heaven It is a duty that honoureth God and it is the highest honour that God can put upon us to give us leave to performe this duty It is a duty that Adam should have performed though he had never fallen It is a duty that shall last for ever and ever It is a comely duty It is a pleasant duty It is the highest expression of our love to God It is the surest evidence of our election For that man that loves the worke of Heaven upon earth shall certainely goe to Heaven when he leaves the earth Now the worke of Heaven is to praise God It is the only rent penny which God requires for all the blessings hee bestowes upon us And yet notwithstanding all this I conceive there is no one duty wherein God is more dishonoured or his name more prophaned then in this duty The world is full of Thanking of God blessed be God praised be God But I beseech yetell me Are we not formall in this duty Doe we not content our selves with the bare Carkasse and outside of praises Doe we not take Gods name in vaine while we are blessing his name Doe we not content our selves with a drop of praises for a sea of mercies Do we not praise him with our lips while we dispraise him with our lives Are we not like unto Actors upon a stage that now play one part and by and

of Iron He toucheth the Mountaines and they smoake If thou beest as a Mountaine in greatnesse and thy sinnes as Mountaines in greatnesse God will make thee smoake c. Great men must labour to be like the great God who is as great in goodnesse as in greatnesse Deus optimus maximus like unto Iob who was the greatest man in the East and the best man in the East O that I could engage great men this day in sense of Gods goodnesse expressed in this wonderfull Deliverance for which weare come to blesse God to serve God with all the Ingredients for the time to come better then ever they have done for the time past Oh that you would enter into a solemne Covenant to sweare no more to commit adultery no more to be irreverent negligent cold hypocriticall in Gods service no more to mock and scoffe at Gods servants no more Greatnes without goodnesse is like the greatnesse of a dropsie man it is thy disease not thy ornament Riches without righteousnesse is like a golden ring in a Swines snout like a Sword in a mad mans hand like an Vnicorns horne which while it is upon the head of the Unicorne is hurtfull and deadly but when it is taken off it is very usefull and medicinall Honours and riches when in a wicked mans custody they do much hurt but when bestowed upon good men they doe much good It is a most blessed conjunction when Religion and Righteousnesse meet together It is like a precious Diamond in a gold-ring Indeed Religion is good wheresoever it is As a pearle is good though it be in the dirt it is a pearle but it is obscured by the dirt in which it is When goodnesse is seated in a poore man it is like a jewell in a leaden ring like a candle under a bushell But when goodnesse meets with greatnesse it is like a Candle upon a hill that gives light heat and influence to all the Country round about Let no great man thinke it a disparagement to serve God to weare his livery and to appeare on his side For it is Gods service onely that can make you truly honourable Since thou wast precious in my sight thou hast bin honourable saith the Prophet Isaiah 43. 4. The men of Beraea were more noble then the men of Thessalonica because they received the word with all readinesse of mind and searched into the Scriptures daily whether those things were so Act. 17. 11. This is the greatest Nobility to be a true servant of the great God A King may give great Titles to a great man but he cannot make a great man A King may cause a man to be called noble but he cannot make a man truly noble A King may command us to call a Lion a Lambe but a King cannot make a Lion a Lambe It is the noble mind that makes a man truly noble This God onely can give To contemne the world and all worldly things to mind the things of eternity to conquer our lusts to have communion with the great God to stand for God when all the world opposeth him this is true nobility This will make thee noble in this world and in the world that is to come I say againe Let no great man account it a disparagement to be Gods servant Let him not only consider the example of Ioshua a Prince and Ruler and of David and Paul before named but also of Constantine the great who was so attentive to the word when it was preached and so reverent as that he would sometimes stand up as Eusebius saith all the while And when his Courtiers rebuked him saying It would tend to his disparagement He answered That it was in the service of the great God who is no respecter of persons Take the example of Theodosius who is reported to have written out the New-Testament with his owne hand accounting it as a speciall Jewell and out of it he read every day praying with his Empresse and with his sister singing of Psalmes c. Suffer me to adde the third time Let not great men thinke it a disparagement to become Gods servants and to serve him strictly and precisely If these examples will not move you consider the Angels of Heaven who are our Fellow-servants and are said by a kind of excellency To doe his Commandements hearkning to the voice of his word The Angels serve God with a great deale of alacrity and chearefullnesse and therefore they are said to have harpes as a signe of their chearefull mind The Angels serve God with a great deale of diligence and sedulity And therefore they are said to have wings and to fly They serve God with a great deale of zeale and ardency and therefore they are said to be a flaming fire And therefore also the title of a Seraphim is given unto them The Angels serve God universally They follow the Lambe wheresoever he goeth They serve him constantly sincerely The Angels alwaies behold his face Mat. 18. 10. They serve him day and night Revel. 7. 15. Oh that the Lord would make you more and more Angelicall in his service to doe his will upon earth as it is done in Heaven Let me adde an example beyond all examples even the example of Iesus Christ himselfe who is called Gods servant Esa. 42. 1. And he was a worshipper of God Joh. 4. 22. A diligent keeper of Gods Sabbath Luk. 4. 16. He used Praier in his familie Luk. 9. 18. He was wont to pray secretly by himselfe Luk. 5. 16. And he used this custome of Prayer morning and evening In the morning Mark 1. 35. rising up a great while before daie And for evening Mat. 14. 23. And this was his custome to doe Luk. 22. 39. He went as he was wont to the Mount of Olives And sometimes he would pray all night long Luk. 6. 12. And this worship Christ did with as much submission and devotion as ever any servant did Luk. 22. 41. Mat. 26. 39. If Christ did all this surely it is no dishonour for the greatest Emperour to doe that which Christ hath done As you are called Christians so you must imitate that Lord and Master by whose name you are called Let no man wonder that I spend so much time to perswade great men to be exemplary in Gods service and to be diligent and zealous For if I could convert but one great man this day I should doe a great deale of service by way of eminency For as he said In uno Caesare multi insunt Marij in one great man there are many inferiours contained As it is in Printing the great difficulty is in printing the first Sheetes and when one is printed it is easie to print hundreds by that So the great worke of our Ministery is to convert great-men if they were once converted hundreds would follow their example When the great wheele of a Clocke is set a moving all the inferiour wheeles will move of