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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

to hell instead of lifting him up to heaven It is faith unfaigned the faith of Gods elect the faith which worketh by lov● which will make the houre of death desireable and comfortable And let me adde That you must not only labour to die with a true faith but with a full assurance of faith not only to die bel●eving but fully assured that your faith is of a right stamp This is a heaven upon earth This will put you into heaven before you come to heaven This will cause you to die rejoycingly and triumphantly as Stephen did when he saw the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive him And as old Simeon did with Christ in your spiritual armes and singing a Nunc dimittis Now Lord let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation This then is thy great work O Christian industriously to endeavour that when thou comest to die thou mayest die in the true doctrine and true grace of faith and in the full assurance of faith that so thou mayst have an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But what must I do that I may be able to make this gallant and noble end He that would die in the faith must first live in the faith For if you observe it it is not said in the text that all without limitation died in faith But all these that is all those who lived in the faith died in the same faith in which they lived These blessed Patriarks had not their faith to get when they came to die but they had got it in health They lived a holy life and died a happy death Life and death for the most part are like the voyce and the echo the body and the shadow Such as the voyce is such is the echo Such as the body is such is the shadow Qualis vita finis ita If we would die happily we must live holily If we would die gloriously we must live graciously If we would go to Christ when we die we must get into Christ while we live If we would die with assurance we must while we live labour to get assurance Woe be to those who have their faith to get when they are dying that begin to amend their lives when they are putting an end to them Woe be to those who begin to serve God when they can do him no service That begin to live when they are ceasing to live And sad is the condition of those who have their evidences and comforts to seek when they are going out of the world And yet I will not absolutely deny as some rashly do but that it is possible for a man to live a thiefe and die a Saint to live wickedly and to repent at death We have one and but one example of this But this is not Gods ordinary way and if I had ten thousand souls I would not adventure one of them upon a death-bed repentance We must not think to dance with the Devil all day and to sup with Christ at night To live all our life-time in Dalilah's lap and to go to Abrahams bosome when we die The ordinary way to die well is to live well In a word If you would die as Abraham did you must live as he did you must imitate Abrahams faith obedience and heavenly-mindednesse If you would die as Jacob did you must wrastle with God in prayer as he did If you would partake of their happinesse when you die you must be followers of their holinesse while you live This is the fifth inference Doctrine 6. That it is an unvaluable blessing when husband and wife Father and child and childs child live and die in the true faith These all died in faith Not only some of them but all Abraham the husband and Sarah his wife Abraham the Father and Isaac his Son and Jacob his Grand-child All these died in the faith Behold a true noble blood a holy kindred a blessed generation Worthy is Abraham of all honour who was the roote of such a noble and blessed brood And worthy are Isaac and Jacob of so good a Father who stained not their blood by forsaking their faith but held it as they received it and lived and died in the true faith handed to them by their Father Behold here you that are great in place and birth behold I say wherein true Nobility and Gentry doth consist and what is the fountaine of all true honour It is to live and die in the true faith In this faith Abraham died and Isaac his son and heire did not only inherit his fathers estate but his fathers Religion also And Jacob the Grand-child follows both his father and grand-father and dieth in the same faith with them Behold here Jacob a true Gentleman in blood His holinesse and Religion is in the third descent Let great men learn to adorne their Gentility and Nobility with these ensignes of true honour It is a rare blessing when there is a succession of godlinesse in a family when godlinesse is entailed upon children and childrens children When a man can say to God as Moses O God thou art my God and my Fathers God and my Grand-Fathers God There are many families in which there is a succession of drunkards swearers and adulterers c. in which sin and iniquity is entailed of whom it may be said my father was an adulterer a drunkard a scoffer at Religion so was my grand-father and so am I This is a sad pedegree O labour for a holy succession Let Parents write a faire copy to their children let them live and dye in the true faith and let children learne to follow such a copy Let husbands be patternes and examples of godlinesse to their wives and let wives follow their good examples Let wives imitate Sarah Parents Abraham and children Isaac and Jacob Let us and ours so live that when we come to die it may be said of us not that we died in our sins but as it is in the text that we died in the faith These all died in faith I have done with the text But there is another text of which I must of necessity speak something And that is concerning the sad occasion of our meeting here this day Give me leave to speak to you in the language of David concerning Abner Know you not that there is a Prince a great man fallen this day in Israel and in the language of the children of Seth concerning Abraham A Lord and a mighty Prince is this day to be buried One who had so much worth and excellency in him that whosoever will undertake to speak of him needs not feare as Nazianzen saith of his sister Gorgonia least he should spea● too much but rather least he should speak too little and by coming so farre beneath his due deserts should dispraise him even

Doctrine of Perseverance 2. To practise the Doctrine of Perseverance 1. To be rooted and established in the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints And to beleeve that whosoever is truly united unto Jesus Christ by a lively faith shall be so preserved by Christ in the use of all Gospel-means that he shall never totally and finally fall away Christ Jesus at the day of judgement will have a compleat body mystical as well as natural He will not loose any of his real members for then his body should be incompleat There was a book written in King James his dayes by Bertius of the Apostacy of the Saints This book the forenamed King calls in a letter written to the States of Holland A book with a blasphemous title And a learned Professor of Oxford calls it a book with an execrable title And surely if it was blasphemous and execrable then it is as bad now I will notenter upon the controversie there are books lately written to very good purpose for the justification of the doctrine of perseverance To me it is sufficient that God hath said it and shallnot he do it he hath said whom he justified them he also glorified He hath said The servant abideth not in the house for ever but the Son abideth ever He hath said my sheep heare my voyce and I know them and they follow me and I will give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them o●t of my hand My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand He hath said I will put my feare in their hearts that they shall not depart from me He hath said Neverthelesse the foundation of God standeth sure having this seale the Lord knoweth who are his c. Though Hymeneus and Philetas have not stood sure yet the foundation of God standeth sure He hath said being confident in this very thing that he that hath begun a good work in you will performe it untill the day of Christ And that we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation And whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God He hath said I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not And he is now in heaven at the right hand of his Father making intercession for us And the chief end of his intercession is that God would uphold and continue us in his favour unto the end Christ doth not intercede as some would have it That God would save us if we persevere There is little need of this and lesse comfort in it But he intercedes that we may persevere And God in the Covenant of grace doth not only promise to give us heaven if we beleeve and persevere but also to give us in the use of means to beleeve and persevere Now then if God the Father hath decreed the perseverance of the Saints if he hath promised that they shall persevere and that he will enable them by his power unto it If God the Son hath prayed that the faith of all those who were given to him by the Father should not faile and if he ever liveth to make intercession for them that they may never utterly fall If God the holy Ghost be given to the Saints to abide in them for ever and if the seed of God abides in them to keep them from total and final Apostacy then we may safely conclude that the Doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints is most agreeable to Scripture and that it is our duty to be stedfast and unmoveable in it Quest Did not Saint Austin himselfe the great Champion of free grace against the Pelagians hold the doctrine of the Apostacy of the Saints For though he saith That an elect justified person shall never finally fall away yet he seems to say that there are many truely justified who are not elect and that justification and election are not termes convertible And that many are justified by a faith working by charity who not being elected fall away totally and finally Answ. I must not deny but that this opinion is charged upon St. Austin by some learned men and a Reverend Divine hath lately in a book printed about this subject asserted it as a thing undubitable and without controversie and for this end he brings many sayings out of his works which favour this opinion But this learned brother may if he please read an answer to most of those quotations long ago given by Bishop Abbot in his animadversions upon Tompsons Diatriba de amissione intercisione justificationis gratiae And he may likewise find many sayings brought out of St. Austin which do most fully and clearly prove that he held not only that no elect man can finally fall away but also that none but the elect are justified and that those who are truely justified can never fall away As for example God saith Austin calleth none with that calling which is according to his purpose but such whom he hath predestinated and he justifieth none but those whom he thus calleth and glorifieth none but those whom he hath predestinated called and justified c. Againe speaking of the vessels of wrath and of the reprobates he saith That God brings none of them to sound and spiritual repentance by which a man is reconciled to God in Christ whether he waites longer on them then on the elect or shorter In another place he saith That God doth not forgive the sins of all men but only of those whom he hath foreknown and whom he hath predestinated Againe he saith in another place That the gift of the holy Ghost to wit the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost is given only to those who shall raigne with Christ for ever in heaven Strangers saith he that is such who shall never inherit the Kingdome of heaven have some of those things which are given to the house of God But the gift of the holy Ghost is proper to the Saints of which no stranger doth communicate that is no man that shall never inherit the Kingdome of heaven This is wanting to all the malignant and sons of hell although they are baptized with the baptisme of Christ as Simon Magus was Therefore he calls that a peculiar fountaine of waters running down the streets of the Saints and no where else In other places he saith That Christ justifieth none but those who are members of his body And no man is made alive by the Spirit of Christ but he that is a member of his body And that no man is indeed and in truth a member of Christs body who shall not be with him in heaven to all eternity These places and many more which might be brought and are brought by the forementioned Author are