Abraham's decease A meditation on Genesis 25.8. Delivered at the funeral of that worthy…Abrahams decease A meditation on Genesis 25.8. Deliuered at the funerall of that worthy…

Secondly, more specially; the Souls of Gods Saints and servants may well be said to go to their people ⟨p. 60⟩¹and their Fathers, when they die; ^hbecause they go to that peculiar place, where all their godly Country-men and Ancestors are; to the ⁱCongregation house (as the Apostle terms it) of the First-borne, and of the Spirits of the Just. Nor doth it hinder, but that of Abraham it may so also be understood, albeit that both his Country-men, the most, it may be of them, and his Ancestors also, many of them, might be idolaters, as ^khimself also at first was; since that many yet no doubt of both those ranks, both were pious, while they lived, and went to God, when they died: Besides that, well also may they all be termed and styled ^lhis people, or country-men, though little of kin to him otherwise, that were the people, while they lived, of the same God that he served: Yea as well might ^mall the faithful that went before him, be termed his Fathers, whether he were lineally and carnally descended of them or no, as ⁿall the faithful that came after him, are termed his sons.

Secondly, more specially; the Soules of Gods Saints and seruants may well be said to go to their people ⟨p. 60⟩¹and their Fathers, when they die; ^hbecause they goe to that peculiar place, where all their godly Country-men and Ancestors are; to the