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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

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

to the greatmen to see if the way of the Lord as expecting more goodnesse from them then others Of which when he failed he threatens greater judgements against them then others Secondly As great men have greater reason then others So they have greater abilities and opportunities to serve God then others Now every ability and opportunity is a talent with which we are betrusted and for which we must be accountable The Wise-man tells us Ecclesiast 7. 11. That wisdome is good with an Inheritance Wisdome is good without an inheritance But it cannot doe so much good when it is seated in a poore man as when it is joyned with an inheritance When divine wisdome and honours meet together they are like apples of Gold in pictures of silver Riches and greatnesse have made many good men bad but never any bad man good and yet they put a price in a good mans hand to doe much good As a good musicall Instrument doth not make a skillfull Musitian but a skilfull Musitian can play better upon a good instrument then upon a bad one If the man be gracious and religious that is great and rich he will make sweeter harmony and melody in Gods eares then if he were poore and in a low estate It is not to be expressed what attractive power there is in the good examples of great men to make others good Great men are like unto looking-glasses according to which all the Country dresse themselves and if they be good looking-glasses they doe a world of good When Crispus the chiefe Ruler of the Synagogue beleeved many of the Corinthians hearing of it beleeved also Act. 18. 8. When Shechem and Hamor were circumcised they quickly perswaded their people to be circumcised also Ioshuah's example in my Text made all Israel enter into Covenant to serve God And if the great-men and the rich-men of the Kingdome would appeare in more number and more couragiously and resolutely in the great cause of the warre now undertaken by the Parliament how quickly would the whole Land arise as one man to take part with them What mighty loadstones were Nehemiah Ezra and Zerubbabell to draw thousands of people to goe with them from Babylon to Ierusalem to rebuild the Temple So much for the Explicatory part Now for the Use and the Application And here I will apply my selfe First To all men in generall not excluding great-men And secondly To great-men in particular and yet not excluding other men First To all in generall This Text speakes a word of Reproofe to all those that make a quite contrary choise to Ioshuah's choice that choose to serve other Masters and not the Lord And of these there are 4 sorts 1. Such as choose to serve men and not the Lord The Apostle faith 1 Cor. 7. 23. Ye are bought with a price bee not ye the servants of men which words doe not forbid the civill relation and subjection of a servant to his Master but they reproove two sorts of men 1. Such as subject their Consciences to the superstitious inventions of men in Gods worship that build their Religion upon mans bare authority Such servants are all the Papists that build their Religion upon the Popes infallibility these are servants of men 2. Such as are servants to the lusts of wicked men that serve men when they runne in a crosse line to Gods will Such were the Subjects of Nebuchadnezzar that at the command of the King worshipped the golden Image and served the King and not the Lord Such was Pilate that for feare of displeasing Caesar delivered up Christ to be crucified though he knew him to be innocent And would to God we had not many amongst us that sell their Consciences their Religion and their Salvation to be panders to the lustfull covetous and ambitious desires of great men Such were the Nobles of Cambyses Cambyses had a lust to marry his owne sister he sends for all his councell and asketh If they had any Law in Persia to allow him to marry his sister They answered That there was no such Law But yet there was another Law That the Kings of Persia might doe what they list These Nobles were slaves to the lust of Cambyses And if we had not such Nobles and Gentlemen amongst us these unhappy warrs would quickly be at an end Alexander had two friends * Hephaestion and Craterus One loved him as a man the other as a King He that loved him as a man laboured to satisfie the Kings lusts and to please him as a man in all his desires whether lawfull or unlawfull He that loved him as a King desired to please him in such things which were just and which tended to the Kings honour and the peoples safety Now I demand which of these two were Alexanders best friend Our Soveraigne King hath two such kind of friends Two such kind of friends had Rehoboam and by hearkning to his Young-men and refusing the councell of his old and grave Councellours he ruinated himself and his posterity which God forbid our King should do Secondly I am to reprove such as chose to serve the times and not the Lord that change their Religion with the times That will be superstitious if the times be superstitious and devout or Atheisticall according to the times whose Religion is like a peece of waxe to be moulded into any frame according as the timesalter and change Such were the Samaritans that when the Jewes were in prosperity would professe themselves to be of the Jewish Religion but when the Jewes were in adversity they would disclaime them and their Religion Many such Samaritans amongst us that in King Edward the sixt's dayes turned Protestants in Queene Maries turned Papists and in Queen Elizabeths dayes turned Protestants againe There are thousands in this age that are Time-servers and not God-servers Many such Ministers and many such Magistrates many such people I have much thought of two wicked speeches too too much practised in these our dayes The one is of a deepe Polititian That it was good to follow the truth but not too neare at the heeles least it dash out our braines There are many such that would be glad to seeme to be religious and to owne the cause of Religion which is now asserted by the Parliament but they are afraid to owne it too publikely or too zealously for feare it should hinder their preferment and dash out the braines of their promotions Another speech is that of the King of Navarre to Beza That he would launch no farther into the Sea of Religion then he might be sure to returne safe into the Haven This is the true picture of a Time-server to dive no farther into the deepes of Religion to appeare no farther in this great cause of Religion then he can be sure to save his estate and to save his carcasse I read of the men of Issacar That they were wise to understand the

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