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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

It was the saying of a Schoole-master to a King that sent to see how he did when he was dying The Schoole-master returned this answer Tell the King I am going to a place where few Kings come meaning to Heaven Consider lastly those two places of Scripture Re. 6. 15 16 17. The Kings and the great men and rich men wish for the Mountains to hide them c. And Isa. 30. 33. Tophet is prepared of old even for the King it is prepared By King is meant in all probability the great King of Assyria as may appeare by the context The Lord give you hearts to consider these things Now I proceed to an Use of Exhortation And here I will apply my selfe first to all men as well as great men Secondly to great men especially and yet not excluding others First To all men in generall To perswade all men to make Ioshuah's choise their choise to choose to serve the Lord and not only so but also to serve him with all the Ingredients before mentioned to serve him transcendently inconditionally universally undividedly reverently everlastingly c. For it is the manner of serving of God that is the distinguishing Character of a true servant Cain offered Sacrifice as well as Abell The wicked worship God pray and receive Sacraments as well as the godly But Abell offered in faith so did not Cain The godly serve God in sincerity with reverence diligence and chearfullnes indeavouring in all things to keep a good conscience so do not the wicked That Text which I have so often named He. 12. 28. makes the acceptation of our service to depend not upon our serving of God but upon our serving of God with reverence and godly fear It is the right manner of serving of God that makes thy service a sweet perfume And it is the right manner of worshipping also that makes thee a true worshipper and that causeth God to delight in thy worship and to desire to be worshipped by them according to that excellent place Joh. 4. 23. But the houre commeth and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him And therefore let me ingage you all this day for God and his services Let us give up our names to God and enter into a holy Covenant to serve him with all the Ingredients For marke what Moses saith Exod. 19. 5. If ye will obey me indeed then yee shall be a peculiar treasure c. He doth not say simply If you will obey me but if ye will obey me indeed And so also Deut. 28. 1. If you will hearken diligently to doe all his Commandements then the Lord will blesse thee c. He doth not say simply if you will hearken but if you will hearken diligently and observe to doe all my Commandements Let us serve God as God and for God As a God transcendently inconditionally For Gods sake sincerely faithfully To perswade you to the practise of these things Consider what hath bin already said concerning the necessity of this duty I adde further the consideration of the excellency profitablenesse comfortablenesse and easinesse of this duty The excellency and honourablenesse of Joshuah's choice For indeed it is not only a duty but a high Prerogative to be the servant of the high God Deo servire regnare est And therefore whereas Mat. 13. 17. it is said Many Prophets and Iust men c. In Luk. 10. 24. It is said Many Prophets and Kings to note unto us That Iust men are Kings Rev. 1. 6. This was Moses his honour and it is often repeated Moses my Servant c. This was Ioshuah's honour often repeated My servant Joshuah c. This was Davids honour I am thy servant O Lord I am thy servant And it is prefixed as a Title to the 36. Psalme A Psalme of David the servant of the Lord It is a great honour that God will thinke us worthy to be his servants And therfore Paul stiles himself Paul a servant of Iesus Christ It is the certainest signe of a reprobate to have much wages here and to want a heart to do service with it It is a great happines to be in place to do service It is the honour of our honours to be inabled by them to do God service Non est laboriosa sed amabilis optanda haec servitus saith Austin It is no painfull and laborious service but a service to be loved and longed for As it is honourable to be a servant of God so also the services themselves are honourable Pretiosa haec servitus virtutum constat expensis This precious and honourable service stands in the practise of all vertues in praying unto God and praising of God c. O let this perswade us to begin this day to serve God more strictly then ever Adde secondly The profitablenesse of this service There is no service any man doth for God but God takes exact notice of it Thus God tooke notice of Abrahams willingnesse to offer Isaac Gen. 22. 16. God takes notice of every circumstance of that that we doe for him Thus Christ took notice of Mary Magdalen and of every circumstance of her washing his feet c. Luk. 7. 44 45 46. And Mark 4. 2 3. Christ observes how farre some came to heare him and how long they tarried c. And as God takes notice of these things in his servants so he commends them upon all occasions and highly esteemes of them and their services Thus God boasted to Satan concerning his servant Iob Job 1. 8. Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him c. And as none observes commends and prizeth his servants so much as God so none rewards his servants as God doth None more able and none more willing The service of God is perfect freedome and it will free us from all other services As a man that buyeth free-hold Land though he pay deare for it yet it is accounted cheaper then coppy-hold because it freeth him from many services vices which the coppy-hold is obliged unto If thou beest a servant of Gods indeed and in truth this will free thee from the service of sinne and Satan Whereas on the contrary If we be not true servants to Christ we shall be slaves to every thing beside him O quam multos habet Dominos qui unum non habet O how many Lords hath that man that hath not Christ for his Lord Either thy belly will be thy god or thy mony c. The service of sinne as it is shamefull so it is unfruitfull And it is called The unfruitfull worke of darknesse But the service of God as it is honourable so it ends in everlasting life No man ever kindled a fire upon Gods Altar for nought Mal. 1. 9. In keeping of Gods Commandements there is great reward Psal. 10. And indeed God himselfe is the exceeding great reward

That av when he went to his prayers he found himselfe dull and heavy but after he had strugled a little with his dullnesse all on a suddaine he was visited with the visitation of the Almighty Beatum me praedicarem c. I should account my selfe happy saith he if these visitations would alwayes last Sed rara hora brevis mora oh si duraret But ô but it continueth but for a while And St. Austin relates this Story of himselfe That upon a time when he and his Mother Monica were discoursing together about the joyes of Heaven and the comforts of Gods Spirit they were so filled with joy that Austin useth these words Lord thou knowest in that day Quam mundus eviluit cum omnibus suis delectationibus c. How vildly we did esteeme of the world with all his delights The comforts of the world are not worthy to be named that day that we speake of these comforts Oh let the comfortablenesse of this service oblige you from hence-forth to serve God better then ever yet you have done Adde fourthly and lastly The easinesse of this service Matth. 11. 29 30. My yoake is easie and my burden is light How can the service of God be said to be easie To a fleshly carnall heart it is a burden intolerable But it may be said to be easie 1. In regard of the service God required under the Covenant of works For there God required perfect obedience in our owne persons not admitting of Repentance But in the service required under the covenant of grace we have a Mediatour to fly unto and admittance unto favour upon Repentance 2. It may be said to be easie in regard of the service of sinne and of the Devill There are many that take more paines to serve sinne and money then those that goe to Heaven doe to serve God Many take more pains to goe to hell then others doe to goe to Heaven 3. It may be said to be easie in regard of the many services it frees us from as you heard even now As Diogenes told Alexander when he boasted that he was Lord of the whole world Tu servus servorum meorum es Illis enim cupiditatibus quibus ego impero tu mancipiumes Thou art a servant to my servants a slave to those lusts over which I am Lord 4. Easie to the new nature Rom. 7. 22. As the light of the Sunne is delightsome to those that have good eyes so the service of God to those that are new creatures It is as naturall to the new creature to pray as it is to the old-creature to be drunke 5. Easie to those that have the aid of Gods Spirit As it is easie for a child to goe up stairs when his father leads him up So when led by the Spirit 6. Easie to those that are in Christ And therefore Christ saith Take up my yoake Christ cals it his yoake Because he drawes it with us and he drawes all As it is easie for a little child to life up a great weight when a Giant holds his hand and lifts with him and for him 7. Easie to those that love God 1 John 5. 3. Iacob for the love of Rachell accounted lightly of his service Love adds wings to make our service easie 8. Easie to those that have the right art of serving of God As in all trades almost there is an Art which when we have once got the trade is easie So there is an art of praying and preaching and hearing and receiving the Sacrament c. An art taught us by the God of Heaven which whosoever hath accounts it not a burden but a heaven to be serving of God 9. Easie to those that have the consolations of Gods Spirit in the service of God As Merchants doe ordinarily give a tast of their wines to those to whom they sell them that so they may be invited to buy them So God doth give a taste of Heaven to his servants in his service a praelibamen of Heaven to invite them to serve him more cheerfully A Hound is never weary as long as he hath the sent of the Hare No more is a servant of God as long as he enjoyeth God in his service 10. Easie in regard of what it might have been Thou mightest have bin in hell at this instant past worshipping God suffering everlasting torments 11. Easie to doe what God for Christ sake in the Covenant of grace well accept though not to doe what God requires 12. Easie in regard of the great reward the exceeding great reward that God will give to his servant Finis dat amabilitatem facilitatem medijs The end proposed to a worke makes the worke amiable and easie Where the reward is fullnesse and perpetuity of happinesse no service can be said to be hard to purchase such a reward All this is spoken that none might be deterred from the service of God upon a false supposall of the difficulty and impossibility of it And it is my earnest prayer that these motives might perswade us not only to serve God but to serve him with all the Ingredients Tertullian observes God was never called Lord till man was made He is the peculiar Lord of man O let man be his chiefe servant All creatures in their course serve God None but man and Devils deny it And how just is it for God to joyne him with the Devils in punishment that joynes with the Devill in dishonouring of God Remember when we come to judgement this will be the great Question Christ will put to us not to aske us what money we have got what honours we have purchased But what service have you done to me and for me This is the end for which thou wert created Christ will aske whether this be done And if not done thou art undone When Christ came to die he said Iohn 17. 3 4. Father glorifie me for I have glorified thee Happy is that man that when he comes to die can make this Argument Father I have fought a good fight I have made it my worke to doe thee service c. There are many that can plead Father I have dishonoured thy Name and therefore glorifie me But this is a false argument Let us labour to make Christs prayer in sincerity and faithfulnes But now I come to apply my self to great men and noble men in particular Let me speak unto you in Davids words Psal. 29. 1 2. Give unto the Lord O ye mighty give unto the Lord glory and strength give unto the Lord the glory due to his Name And let me use Davids reason Psa. 29. 5. The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars yea the Lord breaketh the Codars of Lebanon As the higher the Tree is the more it is exposed to the thunder of Heaven So the greater any man is the sooner God will punish him if he be a Giant in iniquity For he bindeth Kings in chaines and Nobles in linkes