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The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley
The life and funeral sermon of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Brand Dr. Samuel Annesley.
London: printed for John Dunton, 1692
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.
Tho' he was lingering almost three Years, yet he was never observed to have any unquiet Motion of Mind, but had always a serene and humble Submission to the sovereign Will of God; he did often bewail his own Imperfections, and small knowledge of God and Christ, and expressed his longing Desires of seeing God face to face. A while before his death he did often say, What is the World! 'Tis not worth a straw. O my God, I would be with thee, Oh, how I long to be with Christ my dear Redeemer: This he spake with great earnestness; Oh my God bring me to thy self. Whereupon he spake ⟨p. 74⟩much of the Glory to be revealed, and insisted on those words, I will be your God. What greater Gift could he give? He gave himself. He gave all. Then he was rapt up into a serious Amazement and deep Admiration, and cried out, Oh, my God! my God what is sinful Man! Worm-man! What manner of Love is this! Love indeed! Oh, I cannot express it!
Tho' he was lingering almost three Years, yet he was never observed to have any unquiet Motion of Mind, but had always a serene and humble Submission to the sovereign Will of God; he did often bewail his own Imperfections, and small knowledge of God and Christ, and exprest his longing Desires of seeing God face to face. A while before his death he did often say, What is the World! 'Tis not worth a straw. O my God, I would be with thee, Oh, how I long to be with Christ my dear Redeemer: This he spake with great earnestness; Oh my God bring me to thy self. Whereupon he spake ⟨p. 74⟩much of the Glory to be revealed, and insisted on those words, I will be your God. What greater Gift could he give? He gave himself. He gave all. Then he was rapt up into a serious Amazement and deep Admiration, and cried out, Oh, my God! my God what is sinful Man! Worm-man! What manner of Love is this! Love indeed! Oh, I cannot express it!
He desired one to read to him, John 17.22. And the Glory which thou gavest me, I have given them, &c. The very hearing of which put him into an ecstasy of Joy, and he desired him to read of Christ's