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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

inventions as the phrase is Psalm 106. 37. For indeed it is spirituall whoredome and it is an exalting of our wisedome above Gods It is vaine-service and therefore cannot please God It is will-worship and of no account with God It is a service that is so farre from bringing us to Heaven that it will beguile us of Heaven This then is to serve God to serve him according to his own way both for matter and manner Now if you aske me What is that way wherein God would have us to serve him I answer briefly He that would serve God so as to please him must mingle 10. Ingredients in his service And indeed this very act of Ioshuah in choosing such a master as Iehovah and in choosing to stand under such a relation as a servant unto Iehovah doth necessarily imply First That Ioshuah did not onely choose to serve God but to serve him undividedly to serve God and none but God For in all Elections those whom we do not choose we refuse And therefore Ioshua's choosing to serve the Lord doth imply that he did refuse all other Lords and masters This is plaine in the beginning of this verse And if it seeme evill to you to serve the Lord choose ye this day whom ye will serve whether the gods c. As if he should have said Ye cannot serve the God of the Israelites and the god of the Amorites together Ye cannot serve God and Idols No man saith Christ can serve two Masters c. 2. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly but also Everlustingly This appeares because he chose an everlasting Master And for this purpose he tells the Israelites verses 19. 20. You cannot serve the Lord for he is a holy God and a jealous God c. If ye forsake him he will consume you c. As if he should have said If you intend to serve God you must never reuolt but keep your selves constant for ever to his service for else he will turne and doe you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good 3. Ioshua did not only choose to serve God undividedly and Everlastingly but also Faithfully and sincerely And this appeares because he chose such a Master that is the heart maker and the heart searcher This is the difference betweene the serving of God and the serving of man Man can but see the outside and punish the outside and judgeth of the inside by the outside But God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and in truth and judgeth of the outside by the inside And therefore Ioshua tells the children of Israel vers. 14. Now therefore feare the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth As if he should have said If you intend to serve him you must serve him in uprightnesse or else ye doe not serve him at all For God requires good aimes as well as good actions and he abhorres that service though never so good if the aime of him that serves him be not good If a Wife should dresse her selfe in fine apparell to please an Adulterer this aime of hers makes her action most abominable Even so all those that serve God though never so exactly in outward shew if their aime be to please men or to get their own ends the Lord abhorres them and their services God abhorres an hypocrite more then a Sodomite and therefore Hell is provided on purpose for hypocrites 4. Ioshua chose to serve God zealously And this appeares because he chose to serve the living God he did not choose to serve Idols but to turne from dead Idols to serve the living God Now the living God expects not only living but lively service 1 Pet. 2. 5. A man may be a living man and yet not lively but God expects lively service and such as are active and lively in his service such as are fervent in spirit as serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. As if he should say You are not fit to serve the Lord unlesse you be fervent in spirit boiling hot in spirit as the word signifies 5. Ioshua chose to serve God Reverently and respectfully And this appeares because he calls himselfe a servant of God not a sonne not a friend Now you know it is a necessary ingredient in a servant to keep his distance and to carry himselfe respectfull of his Master to serve him with reverence and godly feare Heb. 12. 28. 6. Ioshua chose to serve God Chearfully and freely For this is another property of a good servant Psalm 100. 1. Serve the Lord with gladnesse Deut. 28. 47 48. We must make it our meate and drinke our Heaven upon Earth to serve God Seventhly To serve him diligently and laboriously This is another property of a good servant It is said of the 12. Tribes That they served God instantly day and night The word in the Greeke is They served God with an outstretched neck Eighthly To serve God Vniversally in all things At all times and in all places and with all our faculties First In all things though never so irrationall to flesh and blood though never so dangerous though never so costly Such a servant was David that fulfilled all the wills of God 2. As in all things so at all times In time of prosperity as well as adversitie and in time of adversitie as well as prosperity For the God whom we serve is the same in all times he alters not no more must his servants 3. In all places in private as well as publike For God is a Master that filles all places If thou canst find out a place where God doth not see thee there it shall be lawfull for thee to serve the Devill 4. With all the faculties of thy soule and body This note of universality though it be a plaine one yet is of marvellous consequence and it is both {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It is the best divisive difference to divide a Sheepe from a Goate And constitutive to constitute a faithfull servant of God who is one that in all things at all times and in all places with all his faculties gives up himselfe to Gods service That can say as that Dutch Minister Baldazzar did to Oecolampadius Veniat verbum Domini submittemus ei sexcenta si nobis essent colla Let God speake and though we had six hundred necks yet we will make them all stoope to the obedience of him Ioshua chose to serve God Absolutely and Inconditionally For God is a Master that cannot erre in his commands and therefore he must be obeyed without examining of what he commands with blind obedience Sufficit pro universis rationibus Deus vult This is reason sufficient the unerring God will have it so This is the best sighted obedience Man may erre in his commands and therefore is to be served with limitations and examinations They doe