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The riches of mercy In two treatisesThe riches of mercie In two treatises
The riches of mercy In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinity. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his own hand to prevent imperfect copies.The riches of mercie In two treatises: 1 Lydia's conversion. 2. A rescue from death. By the late learned, and reverend divine, Richard Sibbs, Doctor in Divinitie. Published by the authors own appointment, and subscribed with his owne hand to prevent imperfect copies.
London: printed by John for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638London: printed by Iohn for Francis Eglesfeild, 1638
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First,1 They draw near to the gates of death, that is, they were near to death, as he that draws near the gates of a City, is near the City, because the ⟨p. 50⟩gates enter into the City.
First,1 They draw neere to the gates of death, that is, they were neere to death, as he that drawes neere the gates of a Citie, is neere the Citie, because the ⟨p. 50⟩gates enter into the Citie.
- 1Death it self.Death it selfe.
2Secondly, gates are applied to death for authority, they were almost in deaths jurisdiction; death is a great Tyrant, he rules over all the men in the world, over Kings, and Potentates, over mean men, and the greatest men fear death most: he is the King of fears as Job calls him, I, and the fear of Kings. Yet death that is thus feared in this life by wicked men, at the day of judgement, of all things in the world they shall desire death most,2 according to that in the Apocalypse, They shall desire death, and ⟨p. 51⟩it shall not come to them, they shall subsist to eternal misery; that, that men are most afraid of in this life, that they shall wish most to come to them in the world to come, Oh that I might die! What a pitiful state are wicked men in? therefore it is called the Gate of death, it rules and overrules all mankind: