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A79008	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.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

sufficient to prove that according to the mind of St. Austin none but the elect of God are in time effectually called and really justified and pardoned and made partakers of the holy Ghost and become real members of Christs body and therefore the effectually called and justified c. can no more fall away than the elect which all confesse to be under an impossibility of Apostacy in St. Austins judgment 2. Let me perswade you not only to beleeve but to practise the doctrine of perseverance For there are Divers learned men that are so much scandalized at the great Apostacy of some eminent professours in our unhappy dayes that they begin to be stagger'd and to doubt of the truth of the doctrine of Perseverance But these men forget the saying of the Apostle They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us For my part I conceive that these Reverend and learned men should rather doubt of the truth of their graces whom they see thus foully to A postatize than of the truth of the Doctrine of Perseverance But howsoever let us take heed of laying this stumbling block least by our practical Apostacy men should begin to turne Doctrinal Apostates Let us labour to dye well as well as to live well to continue and persevere in wel-doing It is the great commendation of the Saints in the text That they died in the faith These all dyed in faith Remember what Christ saith No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingdome of God And what the Apostle Paul saith If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition c. And what the Apostle Peter saith It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousnesse than after they have known it to turne from the holy commandment delivered to them c. Remember also Lots wife She did only look back she did not go back and yet she was turned into a pillar of salt As God hath fire and brimstone for a Sodomite so he hath a pillar of salt for an Apostate But why do you exhort us to persevere when as you tell us that if we be true Saints we cannot but persevere 1. We do not say it is simply and absolutely impossible for a Saint not to persevere For if you consider the Saints as they are in themselves and the mightinesse and multitude of their spiritual enemies it is impossible for them not to fall away But we say it is impossible upon supposition Considering the unchangeable nature of God and the unchangeable decree and purpose of God and the unchangeable Covenant promises and Oath of God in this respect we say it is impossible 2. Scripture exhortations are divine motives and meanes to perswade and enable the Saints to persevere and they are so farre from interfering with or nullifying of the promises of faith and perseverance that they are many of them built and grounded upon them Phil. 2. 12 13. 2 Cor. 7. 1. What meanes must I use that I may hold out and continue unto the end and not only live in the faith but also dye in it 1. Dig deep in humiliation The stony ground fell away for want of depth of earth Humility is the best preservative of grace The lower the foundation the surer the building Spiritual pride paves a causey to Apostacy A chesnut put whole into the fire will fly out It is the broken heart only that will persevere 2. Labour for sincerity and uprightness of heart As the firmnesse of a pillar is in the uprightnesse of it if once it begins to bow it will quickly break So the firmnesse and stability of a Christian is in his sincerity and uprightnesse Rottenness of heart betrayeth a man into Apostacy A rotten apple will quickly appeare so outwardly So will a rotten Christian If ever you would persevere take heed of making use of Religion for the promotion of your carnal interest He that serves God for an earthly Kingdome when he bath got what he sought for will forsake God as Jehu did He that followeth Christ only for the loaves will leave Christ when he hath got them 3. Labour for a tender conscience This will keep us from the least degree of Apostacy As hot water grow's cold by degrees first it is luke-warme before it is starke cold So a Christian declines into Apostacy by degrees Lots wife first lingred and then afterwards lookt back first we slack our pace in Religion then we stand still and at last turne back But now a tender conscience will keep us from the least abatement of zeale and forwardnesse in Religion 4. Be not high minded but feare I speak not of a feare of diffidence and distrustfulnesse but of a feare of diligence and watchfulnesse He that would be secure from feare let him feare to be secure Mr. Saunders by his feare of falling away kept himselfe from Apostacy whereas Dr. Pendleton by his notorious presumption and over-bold confidence fell away 5. Take heed least there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} will end in {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Apostacy is the child of unbelief Faith will set us upon a rock higher than us even such a rock against which the gates of hell shall never prevaile 6. Take heed of the inordinate love of the world and of the base feare of men The love of mony is reckoned by the Apostle as the root of all evil in general and more especially of Apostacy 1 Tim. 6. 10. Which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith c. And the base feare of men was the cause which made thousands Apostatize in Queen Maries bloody dayes And therefore if ever you would persevere you must labour to love God above your corruptions relations and possessions and to feare sin more than the losse of estate or life He that loves God above the world will never forsake God to gaine the world He that feares sin more than death will rather dye than sin 7. Pray unto God the Father Son and holy Ghost that they would uphold you and enable you not only to live but to dye in the faith Pray to the Father that he would keep you by his power through faith unto salvation that he would uphold you by his mighty hand and keep you from falling as it is Psalm 37. ●4 Psalm 94. 18. That he would put his feare in your hearts that you may never depart from him Pray to the Son that he would apprehend you and hold you so fast in his armes that none may pluck

strange Country These all That is all those who lived in the second world after the flood Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Jacob the Husband and the Wife the Father the Son and the Grandchild These all 2. The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. It is said they dyed These all dyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Though they lived long and many score of years longer than we now do yet they dyed at last Though they were very godly and religious persons though very noble and honourable persons yet they dyed These all dyed 2. It is said That they dyed in faith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} They died according to the faith in which they lived {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is here put for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as ver. 9. 11 17. They died according to the faith that is in the faith in ●ide seu ●ide seu per fidem If you would know what this faith was in which they died you must take notice of what followeth in the text not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them and confessed that c. God had promised that the Messias should come of their seed and that in him all the nations of the world should be blessed God had promised that he would give them the land of Canaun and not only an earthly but an heavenly Canuan Now all these died perswaded of the truth of these promises embracing or as the Greek word signifieth kissing them They saw them afar off and beleeved them Even as a Mariner that hath been long at sea when he seeth afar off the desired haven claps his hands and skips for joy So did these holy men By the prospective glasse of faith they saw the performance of that which came not to passe till foure hundred years after and rejoyced in it as if already fulfilled They died in the faith of the Messias beleeving not only that he should come in the flesh but expecting salvation and life everlasting by him only They died perswaded of salvation by Christ and embracing saluting and kissing the Lord Jesus They died in the faith of the promised land of Canaan and they died looking waiting and resting upon God in Christ for a better country which is an heavenly ver. 16. In a word they died beleeving they should go to that City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God ver. 10. This was that blessed happy and noble close and end of daies which these godly and honourable Patriarks made These all dyed in faith From the words thus expounded I shall gather these following inferences Doctrine 1. That though a man liveth never so long yet he must die at last These all dyed though they lived long Abraham lived one hundred seventy five years Isaac one hundred eightie Jacob one hundred fourtie seven and yet died at last Before the flood some lived seven hundred others eight hundred others nine hundred years but it is added as the common Epitaph of them all Mortuus est he dyed Gen. 5. 8 14 17 20 31. Death is the haven of every man whether King or beggar rich or poor Death is the gulfe which will swallow us all up Length of time cannot prescribe against death The longest day will have a night and the longest life a death This life is nothing else but prolixitas mortis as one saith or tendentia ad mortem A lingring kind of death or a pacing or journeying to death Some have a longer journy than others but all must come to their journies end at last There is a statute in heaven for it Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to dye And death is called the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. And the way of all the earth 1 King 2. 2. All flesh is grass Isa. 40. 6. Now then if they who lived so long died at last much more must we who are dwarfes in years in comparison of them and who are nearer death when first borne than some of them were when an hundred years old Let me beseech you frequently solemnly and seriously to consider That though we live never so long and labour by physick and temperate diet and wholesome aire to prolong our lives yet we must die at last As the King of Persia told Constantine the Emperour when he had shewed him all the wealth of Rome These are indeed saith he wonderful things which you shew me but I plainiy see that as in Persia so in Rome also men are subject to death For dust we all are and to dust we must all returne We must say to corruption thou art my Father and to the worme thou art my Mother and my sister We have here no abiding City As we had a day to come into the world so we shall have a day to go out of it The nature of man is wonderful prone to dreame of an eternal abode and of a lasting happiness here upon earth Saint Austin tells us of certain hereticks called Aeternales because they held the world to be eternal We have many such Eternalists who phancy to themselves a kind of eternitie here upon earth and are ready to say with the rich foole in the Gospel Soul take thy ease eat drink and be merry thou hast goods laid up for many years and in the mean time forget what God said to him Thou foole this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided It is said of wicked men Psalm 49. 11. Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations c. They are ashamed to utter any such thing but their inward thought is that they shall abide for ever Then it followeth ver. 13. This their way is their folly yet their posteritie approve their sayings Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not c. Though he thinks he shall abide yet neither he nor his heires shall be continued but he shall be like the beasts that perish Therefore we had all need to pray Davids prayer Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am There are few who know practically and applicatively how fraile they are Most men say they are mortal magis usu quam sensu more out of custome than feeling for they live as if their lives were riveted upon eternitie and as if they should never come to a reckoning Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret Let us supplicate unto God That he would teach us effectually to remember our frailtie and to consider that there will come a dying time and that it