item: #1 of 30 id: A26065 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c. date: 1663.0 words: 25822 flesch: 65 summary: Gentlemen , YOU have heard a worthy Gentleman of the House of Commons , it is desired by this grave and Reverend Assembly of Ministers , that three of the Ministers of this Assembly should likewise speak unto you concerning this great business , and notwithstanding my indisposition of body , being required by them , though that Gentleman of the House of Commons hath spoken so abundantly to the purpose , yet notwithstanding I am here come to speak something , the rather to declare my willingness to appear in this Cause , that is every way so just , and every way so honest , and so good , that I may truly say , as the Martyr did , that if I had as many lives , as I have hairs on my head , I would be willing to sacrifize all these lives in this Cause ; You know the story of Craesus , that though he never spake in his life , yet when he saw his Father ready to be killed , it untyed the strings of his tongue , and then he cryed out , that they would not kill his Father ; you are not ignorant that England and Ireland lye a dying , and though I never appeared in this place , yet I bless God that hath given me that health , this day , to speak something in this Cause , for the reviving of the dying condition of England , and Ireland ; It is such a Cause as is able to make a very Infant eloquenr , and a dumb man to speak that never spake in all his lise ; The matter I am desired to speak to , is , concerning the Contribution , to perswade you to be liberal towards the bringing in of the Scots , to help us in this our great necessity ; The truth is , it is a great shame that England should stand in need of another Nation , to help it to preserve its Religion and Liberties : That England , that hath been enriched with the Gospel of Peace , and the peace of the Gospel for so many years ; that England , that hath been blessed with so many rare Ministers of God , so many precious , and powerful servants , that have preached the Word of God in season and out of season ; that England , that hath professed the Gospel with so much power and purity ; that England should stand in need of the help of their Brethren of Scotland , for to preserve that Gospel that they have professed so many years ; I confess to me it seems a very strange Prodigie , and a strange wonder ; but it hath pleased Almighty God for the sins of England , for our great unthankfulness , and for our unthankfulness under these means , and for the great blood-guiltiness , and Idolatry , and Superstition of this Nation , it hath pleased God to suffer a gre●…t ●…art of th●… Kingdom to be blinded , especially those parts , where the Word os God hath not been preached in a powerful manner ; and there are many in th●… King●…om , that will not be perswaded , that there is an intention to bring in Pop●…ry , and to bring in Slavery ; Many of them ( I say ) think that though the Popish Army should prevail , and the plundering Army shoul●… 〈◊〉 , yet they think all would go well with Religion , and with their Liber●…es ; I say it hath pleas●…d God to ●…uffer abundance in the Kingdom , to be blinded with this opinion , out of a just judgement to punish us for our unthankfuln●…ss , and for our ingr●…titude ; and this is the reason that so many men stand Neuters , and that ●…o many are Malignants , and disaffected to this great Cause , in so much that I am concluded under this , that there i●…ittle probability to finish this Cause , without the coming in of the Scots , ( as you heard so worthily by that Member of the House of Commons ; ) printed by ●…hristopher Meredith by his own appointment ; directly contrary to St. Peter , who tells us , that the King is the Supreme , and not any one , or two Houses of Parl●…ament without him ; contrary to St. Paul , who ●…ells us , that whosoever ( severally , or conjunctly ) shall resist , much more that shall fight against this Highest Power , resist the ordinance of God , and shall receive damnation ; and contrary to our oath of Allegiance , wherein we acknowledge the King , to be the only Supreme Governour of this Nation . keywords: cause; christ; common; covenant; day; england; god; good; government; hath; house; king; kingdom; law; lord; man; nation; oath; pag; parlament; peace; people; power; religion; subjects; war; wealth cache: A26065.xml plain text: A26065.txt item: #2 of 30 id: A30736 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: A Serious advice to the citizens of London by some ministers of the Gospel in the said city upon occasion of the horrid murder and dreadful death of Nathaniel Butler, an high malefactor. date: 1657.0 words: 5575 flesch: 74 summary: And should God leave you to the baseness of your own hellish hearts , would not you also run to all Excess of sin , and that with Greediness too ? What a Chaos ? what a Wilderness of wild Beasts should we be , if Malefactors were not punished ? What Confusion , Cruelty , Barbarousness , would overspread all , if by wholsome Laws , and the care of good Magistrates in the Execution of them , we had not some Boundaries set to the Lusts of men ? whether would the heart of man run , if there were not some reins upon it ? T is sad the Law of God will not keep men from sin , but seeing it will not , t is mercy we have the Laws of Man . keywords: city; day; god; grace; servants; sin; sins; text cache: A30736.xml plain text: A30736.txt item: #3 of 30 id: A31885 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. date: 1642.0 words: 1560 flesch: 51 summary: An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 249:E132, no 7) An ansvver to the articles against Master Calamy, Master Martiall, Master Burton, Master Peters, Master Moleigne, Master Case, M. Sedgwicke, M. Evans, &c. and many other painfull divines who were impeached of high treason by His Majesty : first answering particularly the articles themselves, then shewing the mis-information of His Majestie by the bishops, concerning the same : expressing the great care and vigilancy of those theologians which they have and doe daily undertake with great zeale for the rooting out of popery the confounding of Rome and for the erecting the pious truth and sincerity of the holy gospel of Christ. keywords: articles; master; master calamy; text cache: A31885.xml plain text: A31885.txt item: #4 of 30 id: A31893 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The art of divine meditation, or, A discourse of the nature, necessity, and excellency thereof with motives to, and rules for the better performance of that most important Christian duty : in several sermons on Gen. 24:63 / by Edmund Calamy ... date: 1680.0 words: 55336 flesch: 65 summary: And it is called in Scripture an abominable thing ; it is compared to the filth under a mans nails , and to the putrefactions of sores ; and the dung , the excrements of man ; and wilt thou love that which is loathsom to God ? shall sin be so abominable in the sight of God , and shall it not be so in my sight ? Lord , what is man that thou shouldest make the Heaven , the Sun , and the Moon , and the Stars for his sake ? You must know , that all the whole Creation is a picture of God ; it is Gods Looking-glass , wherein you may behold the God of Heaven and Earth ; there is no Creature but it hath the Image of God upon it ; there is not the least spice of grace but you that are spiritual may read God in it . keywords: christ; christian; day; doth; duty; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; lord; love; man; meditate; meditation; promises; reason; sacrament; saith; sin; sins; soul; things; thou; thy; time; work; world cache: A31893.xml plain text: A31893.txt item: #5 of 30 id: A31910 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Eli trembling for fear of the ark a sermon preached at St. Mary Aldermanbury, December 28, 1662 / by Edmund Calamy ... upon the preaching of which he was committed prisoner to the gaol of Newgate, Jan. 6, 1662 ; together with the mittimus and manner of his imprisonment, annexed hereunto. date: 1662.0 words: 9490 flesch: 60 summary: We m●y all of us say , For my sins ' , and for thy sins the ark of God is in danger , and t●erefore we had need always to hav● trembling hear●s & solicitou● heads what will b●come of the ark of God. Ma●yes dayes , they profess●d wherever th●y came , that G●● for their untha●kfulness had taken the gospel from 〈◊〉 . keywords: ark; church; danger; eli; god; gospel; hath; israel; lord; man; nation; people; text; ● ● cache: A31910.xml plain text: A31910.txt item: #6 of 30 id: A31927 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Englands antidote against the plague of civill warre presented in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons on their late extraordinary solemn fast, October 22, 1644 / by Edmund Calamy ... date: 1652.0 words: 21383 flesch: 76 summary: THe subject matter presented unto you in this Sermon , is Repentance : A Theam that concerns you not only as you are Parliament men , betrusted by the people with the happinesse of the Kingdom , but as you are Gentlemen betrusted by God with immortall souls . AMong all the Texts that are in the Bible , there is no one Text more suteable to these times , then this that I have read unto you ; But now God commands all men every where to repent : God hath been preaching repentance to England by the Ministry of his word almost these hundred years ; but England hath turned a deaf ear to Gods preaching , and God is now preaching repentance , not only by his Word , but by the sword ; ( for the sword hath a voice as well as the word , Mic. 6. 9. keywords: christ; day; england; god; gods; good; gospel; hath; lord; man; men; non; parliament; people; repentance; sin; sinne; sins; thou; times cache: A31927.xml plain text: A31927.txt item: #7 of 30 id: A31933 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ... date: 1642.0 words: 18178 flesch: 79 summary: 1. That God hath an absolute power over all Kingdoms and Nations , to pluck them up , pull them down , and destroy them as he pleaseth . 2. That though God hath this absolute Prerogative over Kingdoms and Nations , yet he seldome useth this power , but first he gives warning . keywords: build; christ; day; evill; god; gods; good; hath; hearts; house; lord; man; men; mercy; nation; non; people; reformation; repent; repentance; roman; sin; sinne; text; turne; wee cache: A31933.xml plain text: A31933.txt item: #8 of 30 id: A31952 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ... date: 1657.0 words: 71213 flesch: 69 summary: Secondly , He must seek it orderly , he must follow the vein ; He must not begin where God begins , but where God ends ; he must not begin at the root to fi●d the branch , but by the branch discry the roote , my meaning is , he must not begin with Gods decree in predestination , which is the root of salvation ; But with regeneration and justification , which are branches issuing out of this root , other wayes he may destroy the tree ere he is aware , I mean himself , and all hope of Heaven and salvation , as I have known some do , and fall into utter desperation ; The truth is , he that will not beleeve , untill he read God's decree in Heaven , must never look for any assurance of Heaven here , nor fruition of it hereafter ; If you will not beleeve , you shall not be established , saith the Text ; He that will reach to Heaven by Jacobs Ladder , must begin at the lowest step ; this is the Scripture way to get assurance ; Christs directory prescribes it , when Iesus Christ would instruct Nicodemus about his spirituall and eternall estate , he did not send him to Heaven , to read the records of the celestiall court , but sent him to read himself over , to search his own heart and life , to consider whether he were regenerate and born again , whether he were ingrafted into Christ , and made a new Creature , yea , or nay ; Christ directs him to the effect to find out the cause , not to the cause to find out the effect , which teaches us , that he that would get some good Evidence of the Love of God and his own salvation , must begin at home with the workings of God , in and upon himself , he must consider what work the Spirit of God hath done in him , what sight of sinne , what sense of sinne , what sorrow for sinne , what l●athing and forsaking of sinne , he hath wrought in him , what grace or desire of grace , or prizing of grace , the Spirit of God hath wrought in him ; The Father himself Loveth you , saith Christ. Why the next words tell us , Ye have loved me , and beleeved , &c. The Father himself loved you , because ye have loved m● , and beleeved that I came out from God : It is as if Christ had said , your faith to me , working by love to me , demonstrates it ; for Christ doth not here make our Faith , or our love the cause of Gods love to us , but the discoverer of it : And the Apostle tells us , That whom God did foreknow he also did predestinate , to be conformed to the Image of his Sonne , and ver . 30. saith , that whom he did predestinate , them he also called ( to wit ) inwardly and effectually , according to his purpose , by giving them saving grace ; and whom he thus calleth , them he also justifieth ▪ and whom he justifieth , them he also glorifieth ; And here the Apostle followeth the example of his Lord and Master , leading us to the cause by the effects , and to the end by the meanes , hence it is evident , That he that would get assurance of his Election , must seek it in the workings of God , in , and upon himself ; he must consider , how his justification i● evidenced by his sanctification , and his election by both . keywords: apostle; assurance; body; christ; creature; death; doth; faith; glory; god; god doth; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; holy spirit; jesus christ; life; lord; love; man; new; note; obedience; righteousnesse; rom; saith christ; seal; self; sinne; soul; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; thy; true; truth; wit; word; work; ● ● cache: A31952.xml plain text: A31952.txt item: #9 of 30 id: A31975 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The fixed saint held forth in a farwell sermon preached at Mary-Aldermanbury, London, August 17, 1662 / Mr. Edmond Calamy. date: 1662.0 words: 5484 flesch: 72 summary: 2. Sin brought persons and Nations into internal st●aits : sin brings soul-plagues , which are worse then bodily plagues : sin brings hardness of heart , blindness of mind , a spirit of slumber , a reprobate sence ; sin brings a spiritual famine upon a Land ; it brings a famine of the word , Amos 8. 11. sin causes God to take away the Gospel from a people : sin brings internal plagues : sin wakens conscience , and fills it full of perplexities : Into what a strait did sin drive Judas , after he had betrayed Christ ? Into what a strait did sin drive Spira ? If David had been to suffer this great punishment out of love to God , or for a good conscience , he would not have been so distressed : There are two sorts of straits in Scripture : some suffered for God and a good conscience : and there are straits suffered for sin . keywords: david; god; good; man; people; sin; strait; text cache: A31975.xml plain text: A31975.txt item: #10 of 30 id: A31997 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The Godly mans ark, or, City of refuge, in the day of his distresse discovered in divers sermons, the first of which was preached at the funerall of Mistresse Elizabeth Moore : the other four were afterwards preached, and are all of them now made publick, for the supportation and consolation of the saints of God in the hour of tribulation : hereunto are annexed Mris. [sic] Moores evidences for heaven, composed and collected by her in the time of her health, for her comfort in the time of sickness / by Ed. Calamy ... date: 1658.0 words: 50931 flesch: 79 summary: That God would fulfil that blessed Promise , Isa. 54. 13. verses ) in this long Psalm , wherein there is not mention made of the Law of God , under the name of Law , or Statutes , or Precepts , or Testimonies , or Commandements , or Ordinances , or Word , or Promises , or Wayes , or Judgements , or Name , or Righteousness , or Truth , &c. keywords: afflictions; bee; christ; come; comfort; david; day; delight; god; god bee; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hee; law; life; lord; love; man; mee; promises; psal; saints; saith; shee; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; true; wee; word cache: A31997.xml plain text: A31997.txt item: #11 of 30 id: A32016 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ... date: 1642.0 words: 24095 flesch: 77 summary: When God sends judgements upon a Nation , then must we preach judgements to that Nation ; But when he sends mercies , then must we preach mercy : Now God hath brought England into the schoole of mercy , and hath placed it in the highest forme , and hath made it Captaine of the schoole . If you looke backe into the Chapter you shall find , that God promises many rare and great mercies to the house of Israel , Mercies in Folio , Mercies unspeakable : God promises to gather them out of all Countries : And to bring them backe to their owne land ; To cleanse them from Idols : And from all filthinesse : To sprinkle cleane water upon them : To give them a new heart , and a new spirit : And to take away their hearts of stone , and to give them a heart of flesh : And to multiply all outward blessings upon them , &c. Observe from hence ; That God doth sometimes shew mercy to a Nation when it least deserves it , and least expects it . keywords: christ; day; doe; england; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heart; house; like; lord; lord god; man; mercies; mercy; nation; owne; people; saith; sin; sinne; thee; thou; thy; unto cache: A32016.xml plain text: A32016.txt item: #12 of 30 id: A32022 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The happinesse of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to the dead bodies of the saints even while they are in the grave, sleeping in Jesus delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Lady Anne Waller, at the new church in Westminst[er], Oct. 31, 1661 : together with the testimony then given unto her / by Edm. Calamy ... date: 1662.0 words: 15996 flesch: 78 summary: This makes Death very terrible to those who have the guilt of sin upon them unrepented of , and who are under the just fear of Everlasting Burnings , and indeed to all men out of Christ , death is of all terrible things most terrible , as you shall hear in the next Use. He hath disarmed Death , and taken away the Sting of it , so as to a man in Christ , death is a Serpent without a Sting . keywords: bodies; body; christ; dead; death; dust; god; grave; hath; heaven; iesus; life; lord; man; prison; saints; saith; sin; sleep; soul; wicked cache: A32022.xml plain text: A32022.txt item: #13 of 30 id: A32033 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: A just and necessary apology against an unjust invective published by Mr. Henry Burton in a late book of his entituled, Truth still truth, though shut out of doors by Edmund Calamy ... date: 1646.0 words: 5867 flesch: 66 summary: But I will not off●r s● much injury to M. Burton , or discover so much malice in my self , as to copy out that foul picture that is there drawn of M. Burton : I abhor such dealing . ●re●ate the story , only to manifest to the indifferent Reader , that M. Burton takes just the same course with me , raking up from the dead what he conceives was done by me 12 years ago at least : which things , though they should all prove true , yet , I hope , the impartiall Christian will no more justifie M. Burtons practice against me , then they did Christopher Dows against M. Burton . keywords: answer; book; burton; churches; m. burton; man; non; text; truth; words cache: A32033.xml plain text: A32033.txt item: #14 of 30 id: A32039 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Master Edmund Calamies leading case date: 1663.0 words: 4886 flesch: 76 summary: B.S. To him th●● thinketh a thing unlawful , and is at liberty , whether he doth it or no , to ●im it is unlawful : but to him that thinketh a thing unlawful , bu● yet is enjoyned by lawful authority to do , to him if he hath not a clear rule to the contrary , it is l●wful . Wh●tsoever it co●●●●ded us by those whom God hath felt over us 〈◊〉 in Chur● , Common-wealth , or Family , which is not evidently contrary to the Law and will of God , ought to be receivved and obeyed no otherwise , then as if God himself had commanded it ; because God himself hath commanded us to obey the Higher Powers , and to submit our selves to their Ordinances , Rom. 13. 1. 1 Pet. 2.13 . keywords: calamy; church; god; good; hath; lord; man; text cache: A32039.xml plain text: A32039.txt item: #15 of 30 id: A32041 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomizd together with a description of the heavenly and blessed selfe-seeking : in a sermon preached at Pauls the 10. of December, 1654 / by Edm. Calamy, B.D. ... date: 1655.0 words: 15610 flesch: 73 summary: What is the reason that the Government of the Church , so happily began , is now obstructed , and almost quite broken in 〈◊〉 ? Is it not because all men seek their owne , and no men the things of Christ ? What is the reason that the house of God lieth wast , and every man labours to build his own house ? Why is it that men complain of taxes and want of trading , but no man complaines that the House of God is neglected , the pure Ordinances despised , and the godly Ministry undervalued ? Is it not because all men seek their own , and not the things of Jesus Christ ? What is the reason that the truths of Christ are trampled under feet , and men are suffered to deny the Divinity of Christ and of the Scriptures , and no man saith , why do you so ? But let a man but speak a word against the lawes of men , he shall be severely punished : Is not this , because all men seek their own , and not the things of Jesus Christ ? What is the reason that so few Gentlemen , Citizens , and Ministers ; appeare for the things of Christ ? that so many silence themselves , and suffer Religion to be almost lost , and yet dare not appeare for it ? Why is it that our Lectures are so little frequented in most places● that many think nothing too much to give to their 〈◊〉 , but any thing too much for their Minister ? that 〈◊〉 Master will be very exact to see his servant do his business upon the week da●es , but indulge him to do what he will upon the Lord● day ? When a man seeks his owne things , when they stand in competition with , and in opposition to the things of Christ , when things come to so narrow a bridge , that either he must part with Estate , Liberty , and Life , or with Christ and a good Conscience : If he chooseth to part with Christ and a good Conscience , rather than with his Liberty , Estate or Life , this is a wicked self-seeker . keywords: christ; church; god; good; hath; himselfe; interest; jesus christ; love; man; men; non; owne; owne things; religion; seeker; seeking; selfe; sinfull; sinne; soule; things; thou cache: A32041.xml plain text: A32041.txt item: #16 of 30 id: A32047 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: 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 ... date: 1643.0 words: 22236 flesch: 81 summary: The nature of man is prone to worship God by Crucifixes and Images , and by wayes of our owne devising . 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 . keywords: cause; christ; day; doe; doth; god; gods; goe; good; hath; heaven; king; lord; man; master; men; non; people; religion; servant; service; sinne; text; thee; things; thou; thy cache: A32047.xml plain text: A32047.txt item: #17 of 30 id: A32052 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Saints memorials, or, Words fitly spoken, like apples of gold in pictures of silver being a collection of divine sentences / written and delivered by those late reverend and eminent ministers of the gospel, Mr. Edmund Calamy, Mr. Joseph Caryl, Mr. Ralph Venning, Mr. James Janeway. date: 1674.0 words: 45674 flesch: 84 summary: If there be want of mutual affection between man and wife , and the one suffer vaxations and affronts for a time , yet do thy obedience to the Lord , and thou shalt find comfort in the end . Beware of immoderate Cares , lest you dishonour or deny God : for such Cares are , 1. Needless . Nothing separates God and man , but sin ; and the only way to remove that Wall of separation is , by a true and hearty Repentance and Reformation . keywords: christ; christian; conscience; day; death; doth; evil; eyes; faith; glory; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; hell; holy; know; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mercie; praise; psal; saints; self; sin; sinners; sins; soul; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; wicked; works; world cache: A32052.xml plain text: A32052.txt item: #18 of 30 id: A32058 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vilenesse changed into a body of glory a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate, October 19, 1654, at the funerall of that reverend and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, late master of Christs College in Cambridg : with a short account of his death / by Edmund Calamy ... ; to which are annexed verses upon his death, composed by divers of his friends and acquaintance. date: 1655.0 words: 14375 flesch: 73 summary: The holy Apostle foresaw how prone men and women would be to be proud of their bodies , to pamper them , to spend all their time , and lay out all their strength to provide for their bodies , even with the neglect of their more pretious souls : And therefore that he might wean people from the immoderate love of their bodies , he purposely calls them vile bodies : and 1 Cor. 15. 43 , he calls them dishonourable bodies , or bodies of dishonour , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . It is with the soul and body as it was with Abraham and Lot , Abraham had his servants and cattell , and Lot his , and the country was too little for them . keywords: bodies; body; christ; day; death; dust; glory; god; hath; heaven; jesus; life; man; non; resurrection; saints; saith; sinne; soul; text; thou; time cache: A32058.xml plain text: A32058.txt item: #19 of 30 id: A32062 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: A sermon preached by Mr. Edmund Calamy at Aldermanbury, London, Aug. 24, 1651 being a funeral sermon for Mr. Love on the Sabbath-day following after he was executed ... also four excellent doctrines and proposition to the Presbyterians and others to be by them practiced and meditated upon both morning and evening. date: 1651.0 words: 5826 flesch: 79 summary: Death is terrible to many of Gods children , because they are but infants in grace , and because they do not know the benefit of death . The body of man is animae {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} vestiment●m , It is the souls cloathing ; and death is nothing else but the uncloathing of the soul ; it is just like a man going to bed , and putting off his cloths ; St. Peter cals it , The putting off our earthly tabernacle , 2 pet. keywords: body; christ; death; die; god; man; sleep; soul cache: A32062.xml plain text: A32062.txt item: #20 of 30 id: A32065 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: A sermon preached at Aldermanberry Church, Dec. 28, 1662 in the fore-noon by Edm. Calamy. date: 1663.0 words: 7044 flesch: 65 summary: And when he came , Lo , Ely sate upon a seat by the way side , waiting ; for his heart trembled for the Ark of God. But what was old Ely doing ? He was ninety and eight years old , and was not able to go to the Battel , but sits upon a seat by the way side near the Battel ; and there he sits , thinking what shall become of the Ark : And loe , Ely sate upon a Seat by the way side , watching ; for his heart trembled for the Ark of God , for fear lest the Ark should be taken : He was not troubled , what should become of his two Sons , or what should become of the people of Israel , but what should become of the Ark of God. keywords: ark; christ; danger; god; gospel; lord; nation; people; text cache: A32065.xml plain text: A32065.txt item: #21 of 30 id: A52055 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Smectymnuus redivivus Being an answer to a book, entituled, An humble remonstrance. In which, the original of liturgy episcopacy is discussed, and quæries propounded concerning both. The parity of bishops and presbyters in scripture demonstrated. The occasion of the imparity in antiquity discovered. The disparity of the ancient and our moderne bishops manifested. The antiquity of ruling elders in the church vindicated. The prelaticall church bounded. date: 1654.0 words: 38557 flesch: 66 summary: Ille qui antè p●dibus aut as●lloire consueverat , spumante equ● superbus inv●hitur ; parvâ priùs ac vili cellula contentus habitare , erigit celsa Laquearia , construit multa conclavia , sculpit p●stes , pingit a●maria , vestem respuit g●ossiorem , indumentum molle desiderat , &c. Which because the practice of our times hath already turned into English , we spare the labour to translate . But if this Remonstrant be in the right , concerning the Jewish Liturgies , then the Evangelical Church might better have improved her peace and happinesse , then in composing Models of Invocation and Thanksgiving , when there is one extant and ready to be produced , that was constantly used by Gods people ever since Moses dayes , and put over to the times of the Gospel , and confirmed by Apostolical practise : or else great is our losse , who are so unhappily deprived of the best improvement , the Church made of her peace and happinesse in the first 300. years : for rejecting those Liturgies that are confessed by the Learned to bee Spurious : we challenge this Remonstrant to produce any one Liturgie that was the issue of those times . And blessed Constantine was herein as unhappy as wee , who needed not have composed forms of prayer for his Guard to use upon the Lords day , but might and would have taken them out of former Liturgies , if there had been any ; And can ye with patience think that any ingenuous Christian should be so transported , as upon such weak and unproved premises to build such a Confident conclusi●n , as this Remonstrant doth ? and in that Conclusion forget the state of the controversie , sliding from the question of a prescribed and imposed Liturgy to an arbitrary book of prayer . keywords: angels; answer; antiquity; apostles; archbishop; authority; bishops; book; cap; cause; christ; christian; church; churches; difference; doth; elders; england; episcopacy; epistle; est; god; gods; good; government; hands; hath; holy; honours; king; leave; let; lib; liturgy; man; ministers; non; office; order; ordination; pag; paul; people; place; pope; power; prayer; presbyters; religion; remonstrant; rest; rome; saith; scripture; second; set; speed; text; things; times; timothy; titus; truth; way; word; ● ● cache: A52055.xml plain text: A52055.txt item: #22 of 30 id: A57377 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ... date: 1648.0 words: 72910 flesch: 79 summary: particularly and especially proving , That Christ is true and eternall God , against Corinthians and Hebionites , c. 1. That Christ is true man , and assumed true flesh , against Cerdonians , Manichees , Priscillianists and Valentinians , ( which by a Propheticall spirit , he foresaw would follow , ) c. 4. That Iesus is the true Christ , the promised Messiah against Iew● and Nazarites , c. 2. That the Father , Word and holy Ghost , are three true distinct Persons , of one essence ; against Sabelli●ns , &c. c. 5. That they that are born of God ought not , nay , as such , cannot commit sin ; and such as do not righteousnesse are of the devill , not of God , against the Carpocratians , c. 3. 2. To stirre up all that professe to know God and believe in him , that they walk in light , not in darknesse , 1. Iohn 1.5 , 6 , 7. as Christ walked , that they keep the Commandements , especially abound in love , 1 Iohn 2.4 , 5 , 6. and all along the Epistle . The nature of the blessed God , Simple , without composition ; s Al-sufficient , without any externall addition , t immutable , without all shadow of alteration ; u Eternall , x Immense , Incomprehensible , y Omnipresent , and wholly z Infinite , without all limitation , &c. The a Vnity of essence ; The b Trinity of Persons ; The father not being the Son , nor either of them the Holy Ghost ; yet all of them the Holy God. keywords: act; acts; apostle; book; c. 1; c. 2; c. 3; c. 4; c. 5; c. 6; c. 7; c. 8; c. 9; c. c.; christ; church; churches; cor; death; doctrine; end; epistle; faith; foure; generall; god; gods; gospel; greek; hath; hebrew; himselfe; history; holy; iesus; iii; iohn; israel; kings; l. 2; law; life; love; luke; man; matter; moses; new; occasion; parts; paul; penman; people; peter; principall; prophecy; prophets; scope; scripture; second; spirit; testament; things; time; timothy; ver; viz; word; years; ▪ c. cache: A57377.xml plain text: A57377.txt item: #23 of 30 id: A57797 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The Royal remembrancer, or, A Healing letter with arguments and reasons, to the Presbyterians and nonconformists : seasonably offered, from divers learned and conforming persons, to the view of Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, and others. date: 1663.0 words: 3101 flesch: 43 summary: Many more Testimonies , in the Holy Bible , may be ppoduced of Faction , Treachery , Treason and Rebellion : Historyes both Sacred and Prophane , afford us many Relations of this Nature ; wherein has been recorded not onely the perversness , and perjury of Infidels , but also of Christians , yea of good and believing Christians ( of all Ranks and degrees ) unto Lawful Authority ; And this indeed is the drift I aim at , that it may not seem wonderful unto us , to see men otherwise very Good , Religious , and Conscientious engaged in Faction , and infected with Schism ; the one pernitious to Civil Societies , the other to Ecclesiastical ; and indeed , what the one is to the State , the other is to the Church : Among these very Corinthians , whom St. Paul affirmed to be Saints , santified in Christ Iesus , to have received the Grace of God , to have been enriched by God in all knowledge , to have been called unto the fellowship of Jesus Christ our Lord , among those ( I say ) were found Schisms , Strifes , Envyings , Divisions , and Factions : while one boasted to be of Paul , another of Apollo , another of Cephas , and another of Christ as if Christ had been divided : And although I do not peremptorily charge that great Apostle St. Peter as a Schismatick , yet may I as a Temporizer , one who through fear , and cowardize , did separate himself for a time from Communion with the Gentiles , because of the circumsed Iews ; twice through fear did St. Peter offend ; with him at this time did Barnabas , and divers Iews also dissemble , so as to withdraw from converse with the Gentiles , upon which they were justly taxed by St. Paul for not walking uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel : And did not their Separation upon this account almost amount unto a Schism ? And now I wil not wonder at the Temporizing , or Time-serving ; yea , or at the Schism of a Presbyterian Moderator : Little reason has he to wrangle at that Translation , Be fervent in Spirit , applying your selves unto the Time ; I onely affirm , that Good and religious men have sometimes been Rebels , and Schismaticks , through the darkness and ignorance of their Understanding ; and through the obstinacy and perverseness of their own Wils . Consider , That you of all Parties , that ever were in the World , have most of all arrogated unto your selves the names of Holy , Godly , and Religious men : Let nor the Truth and Wayes of God be any longer blasphemed , or evil spoken of for your sakes ; but now give glory unto God ▪ and satisfaction to the Church ; return unto her Communion , and despise her not : be less Censorious , and more Charitable towards others , who are sinners , Knowing that you are also in the Body : be not high-minded therefore but fear . keywords: christ; church; eebo; english; god; king; tcp; text cache: A57797.xml plain text: A57797.txt item: #24 of 30 id: A78766 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury. date: 1657.0 words: 12968 flesch: 75 summary: Here are two words used {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the last word signifieth , that God made it , summo artificio , to set out his skill and workmanship . 2. You must be holy in your carriage towards God ; you must not onely give man his due , but God his due ; you must not only have the Gospel , but obey the Gospel ; you must not onely be good Citizens , but good Christians . keywords: charity; christ; cities; citizens; city; day; god; good; happy; hath; heaven; holy; london; men; non; place; roman; saith; works; world cache: A78766.xml plain text: A78766.txt item: #25 of 30 id: A78767 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The doctrine of the bodies fragility: with a divine project, discovering how to make these vile bodies of ours glorious by getting gracious souls. Represented in a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate at the funerall of that worthy and reverend minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, Master of Christ College in Cambridge, who died the 15 of Octob. 1654. and was buried the 19 day of the same month. / By that painfull and pious minister of Gods Word Mr. Edmund Calamy, B.D. date: None words: 7865 flesch: 61 summary: READER , WEE live in such times wherein most men in the world cry out with those the Psalmist speaks of in the 4. Psalme , Who will shew us any good ? inquiring and listening after the pleasures and profits and preferments of the world , spending all their time , and improving all their parts , abilities , and opportunities , for the promoting their temporall interests , and providing for their frail bodies , subject to diseases , infirmities , and corruptions ; and which ere long must be laid down in the dust : and in the mean time neglecting the concernments of their precious and never dying souls ; never valuing , or at least not labouring after the light of Gods countenance , which is better then life , and the joyes of his salvation which are unspeakable and glorious ; but preferre their bodies before their souls , greedily pursuing the world , and only minding earthly things , whose end ( as the Apostle saies ) will be destruction , both of soul and body , if they still run on without repentance . WEE are here met at this time to perform the last office of love for a worthy , reverend , and godly Minister of Jesus Christ , Dr. Samuel Bolton Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge ; and this Text that I have chosen , will afford us many sutable and seasonable considerations for such a meeting : for here you have , first , the condition that the bodies of men ( even the best of men , the Saints of God ) are in , in this life , they are vile bodies , the Greek is very emphaticall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , corpus vilitatis , that is , bodies of vilenesse , or a vile body , the Greek {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies abjectam conditionem , a vile and abject condition , such as is the condition of slaves or bondmen . keywords: bodies; body; christ; day; dust; god; jesus; man; soul; text cache: A78767.xml plain text: A78767.txt item: #26 of 30 id: A78965 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London. date: 1646.0 words: 19404 flesch: 76 summary: But then God accounts us according to his Gospel to break covenant , when we do not only sin , but commit sin against the Covenant , when we do not only sin out of weaknesse , but out of wickednesse ; when we do not only faile , but fall into sin : when we forsake & renounce the Covenant , when we deale treacherously in the Covenant , and enter into league and covenant with those sins which we have sworn against . And if you keep Covenant with God , the great God will keep Covenant with you , and all the blessings of the Covenant which are mentioned in the book of God , which is the book of the Covenant , shall be your portion for ever and ever . Which is the prayer of Your much obliged Spirituall Servant EDM. CALAMY . keywords: break; breaking; christ; church; covenant; day; god; gods; hath; lord; love; man; men; non; oath; people; selves; sin; sins; text; thee; thou; time cache: A78965.xml plain text: A78965.txt item: #27 of 30 id: A78979 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: An indictment against England because of her selfe-murdering divisions: together vvith an exhortation to an England-preserving vnity and concord. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby church at Westminster; at the late solemne fast, December 25. 1644. By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastour of Aldermanbury in London. date: 1645.0 words: 19904 flesch: 77 summary: Secondly , Divisions open a doore to let in a foraine enemie : and it is a free and miraculous mercy that God hath kept out the French , and the Spaniard , and the Danes from invading England in these times of our divisions . As God caused the Midianites to destroy one another : so these Divisions set a Kingdome against it selfe ; they set a man against himselfe ; a Citie against it selfe , to destroy it selfe , : In a word , that I may expresse all misery in one phrase : Divisions bring in Civill warres , which of all warres are most uncivill . keywords: cause; christ; church; citie; day; divisions; doe; england; god; good; hath; house; kingdome; like; man; men; non; peace; people; religion; saith; selfe; time; unitie; way cache: A78979.xml plain text: A78979.txt item: #28 of 30 id: A79008 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: 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. date: 1658.0 words: 15459 flesch: 81 summary: These all dyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . 2. It is said , That they dyed in faith , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . keywords: body; christ; day; death; doctrine; dye; end; est; faith; father; feare; god; godly; good; great; hath; heaven; holy; life; lord; man; men; non; saints; sin; text; world cache: A79008.xml plain text: A79008.txt item: #29 of 30 id: A79011 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: The saints rest: or Their happy sleep in death. As it was delivered in a sermon at Aldermanbury London, Aug 24. 1651. By Edmund Calamy B.D. date: 1651.0 words: 5982 flesch: 80 summary: So it is true of death , Death is common to all , it is appointed for all men once to die : And therefore David said , He was to go the way of all slesh ; Statutum est omnibus semel mori , Omnibus est calcanda semel lethivia , All men must sleep the sleep of death , or else be changed , which is a metaphorical death . Death is terrible to many of Gods children , because they are but infants in grace , and because they do not know the benefit of death . keywords: christ; death; die; god; jesus; man; sleep; soul cache: A79011.xml plain text: A79011.txt item: #30 of 30 id: A84751 author: Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. title: Foure speeches delivered in Guild-Hall on Friday the sixth of October, 1643. At a common-hall, vpon occasion of desiring the assistance of our brethren of Scotland in this warre. / Viz. the [brace] 1. by Mr. Solicitor. 2. by Mr. Edmund Calamy. 3. by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes. 4. by Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick. Published according to order. date: 1646.0 words: 20103 flesch: 26 summary: The third benefit is , that even the present War it will bee made lesse chargeable to us ▪ and that in this ▪ They not being come in , wee have not Newcastle , there is Nottingh●mshire , York●●●ir● , that great Country , a great part of L●●●olnshire , the Bishopri●● of D●rham , Northumberland , Co●●m●erland , W●●●merland , the great●●● part of the West , the richest part , I know , in this Kingdom , except this City ▪ I say , in case they come not in , they are all under contribution ▪ to the other side ; their comming in gaines New●●●●le , it gaines ▪ as much , as the money to bring them in will cost 〈◊〉 the very gaining of that Town ; and likewise when they come in , it brings all those Countries under contribution ; so that the very contribution ▪ that those Northern Countries will yeeld , it will not only pay the Scotch Army , but is likely ( as it is beleeved ) it will make an addition for our other For●●s , that wee shall have to spare for other Forces , by that which their comming in will gain of the con●ributions of those 〈◊〉 so that I have now done with those 〈◊〉 that will come ●o you in point of Profit , and likewise the assuring of this great Cause . Wee know my Lord of Newca●●le did it ●ast yeare , we know they are as farre Northern borne , they are both in a colder Cly●●te ▪ and therefore wee doubt not of it , and so 〈◊〉 long , we hope to heare of the taking of Newcastle , which what reliefe it will be to this City in the point of Coales , and other Trade , you may easily see : Most of this to the Common-Councell was declared by two Worthy Commissioners that were sent out of Scotland , my Lord Mackland , and Mr. Henderson . keywords: bee; cause; city; comming; day; doe; god; hath; hee; kingdom; lord; money; parliament; peace; religion; time; wee; work; ● ● cache: A84751.xml plain text: A84751.txt