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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

the delivered according to the quantity and quality of the Deliverance God hath given us Deliverances of all sorts and of all sizes for to oblige us to his service Wee have had temporall and spirituall Deliverances old and new Deliverances These two last yeares have been made up all of Deliverances And to sinne willingly against God after such Deliverances as these is a sinne that takes away all excuse Ezra 9. 10. What shall we say after this for we have sinned against thee q. d. We have nothing to say And it is a sinne that will bring universall and utter destruction according to that Text Ezra 9. 13 14. Seeing thou O God hast given us such a Deliverance as this should we againe breake thy Commandements wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou haddest consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping He that doth not serve God the better for this Deliverance it is pitty he was delivered 6. We are bound by the bond of Covenant Quot promissiones tot ora So many Vowes and Covenants we have made with God so many mouthes to call upon us to serve him When we were baptized we entered into a solemne Covenant to renounce the Devill and all his workes and to be Christs faithfull Souldiers unto our lives end And every time we receive the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ we renew our vowes and covenants And it is not a weeke since Ye entred into into a sacred and solemne Promise to amend your lives The Vow of God is upon you And therefore I may say as Christ doth Give unto God the things which are Gods If service be not due doe not give it him but if it be due it is injustice to deny it him We are all servinati servi empti jurati faederati consecrati conducti We are all the borne servants of God and better we had never been borne if we doe not serve him We are all the bought Servants of God Christ hath bought us with a dear price even with his owne precious bloud he became not only a man but a servant to buy us to be his servants We are the purchace of Jesus Christ and it is a high act of Robberie to deprive him of his purchase We are the sworne Servants of God and we are forsworne if we doe not serve him and serve him aright as we ought to doe We have taken a Covenant to serve him better and we are Covenant-breakers if we doe not serve him which is one of the black-marks of a Reprobate We are consecrated to the service of God and dedicated to him by our baptisme and therefore it is a sin of sacriledge not to serve him We are all the hired servants of God All the blessings and mercies we receive daily from God are nothing else but Gods presse-mony to hire us to serve him and it is a shame to receive such great wages and to doe no service for it And thus you see what a great necessity lies upon all men as well as great men to serve God The third thing propounded for Explication is To shew the necessitie that lies upon great men in particular to serve God and to serve him with all those Ingredients and with all the circumstances of Ioshuah's choice Great men are bound to serve God as well as others and to serve God rather then others First as well as others First Because they are Gods creatures as well as others Bound by the six-fold bond before named as well as others they are servinati serviempti c. and therfore unjust perjured and sacrilegious if they withdraw themselves from his service Secondly They must die as well as others and death makes all equall Diogenes could find no difference in the grave betweene the bones of King Philip and other men as he told Alexander the great Thirdly They must appeare and stand before God at the day of Iudgement to give an account as well as others Revel. 20. 12. I saw the dead great and small standing before God Fourthly There is no man great in comparison of God Though a man may be said to be great in comparison of his neighbour yet in comparison of God all the world is but as the drop of a bucket And if all Asia Africa Europe and America be but as the drop of a Bucket in comparison of God what a little drop of this drop is one great man There is a greater nearenesse betweene a King and a toade then between a King and God For Toades are Gods creatures and so are Kings and both finite but there is an infinite distance between the great God and the greatest King As great men are to serve God as well as others So also rather then others And that because First They have more reason then others God hath advanced them above others in dignity honour and wealth and therefore he expects they should bring more honour to him then others A King looks to be acknowledged by all but especially by those who are his Creatures And therefore Caesar cried out to Brutus tufili What thou my sonne So those whom God hath exalted and made as it were gods upon Earth he looks that these gods should not serve the Devill which would be a paradox beyond expression The higher the Elements are the purer they are Aire is purer then water and fire then aire The higher you are in office and wealth the holier and purer you ought to be We doe not expect as much light from a candle as from the Sunne If God have made thee one of the great lights of the world he lookes thou shouldest shine and out-shine others in holinesse and righteousnesse It is a wicked opinion that is spread abroad in the world that the greater any man is the lesse service he need doe unto God Hence it is that if we observe any little sparke of piety in great persons we are ready to behold it as a blazing Commet and to cry it up in the superlative degree But the truth is the golden Rule of Christ teacheth us otherwise To whom much is given faith Christ Luk. 12. 47. much is required And you your selves require most service of those servants to whom you give most wages God did not require tentallents of him to whom he gave but five but he required ten of him to whom he gave ten All creatures the nearer to God the more perfect they are the Angels more excellent then men and the essence of men more excellent then beasts and beasts then plants c. So the nearer any man is to God in power and greatnesse the better purer and holier he ought to be Insomuch that it is reckoned as a great aggravation That the hands of the Princes and Rulers were the chiefe in a trespasse Ezra 9. 2. Their being Rulers did not excuse but increase their fault And Ieremy tels us Jer. 5. 5. That he would goe