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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
THE Reverend Mr. BRAND's Funeral Sermon. › Doctrine › Proposition 1: I. Prop.
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Some indeed God continued long in the World struggling (I will not say to preserve) but to improve their dying Life under unusual and tormenting pains to the Churches benefit, whose Bodies were worn out with anguish, but their Souls had foretasts of Heaven, before they got loose from their clogs, viz. Mr. Corbet, who besides his Pulpit-Labours wrote a greater number of Healing Treatises, than any I ever heard of. And Mr. Baxter of whom his Works say so much, I need say nothing.
Some others God did not continue so long, indeed 'tis impossible they should, without miracle, their pains being in a sad measure intolerable to those that but sympathized with them, viz. Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, who was a mirror of Patience, and Mr. Joseph Allein, whose Sufferings for Christ little other than hurried him to Heaven in a fiery Chariot, if any bodily diseases may be called so, for their being terrible to the beholders.
Some others, whose Labours were more than ordinary, and success answerable, God laid them to sleep, without any hint to their admirers, to put up so much as one Prayer for their continuance, viz. Mr. Gouge, whom I think none will grudge the Title of the Evangelist of Wales, who did more for the promoting the Gospel there, than ever was done before; ⟨p. 89⟩who when he went to Bed well, was found dead there in the Morning. And Mr. Hardy, whose Zeal (and Prudence to manage it) was such, that those who envied him his Station, were forced to get a By-Law on purpose, ere they could remove him. And when he was a great Blessing to the People, whither God sent him, God put him to sleep in much like manner with the former.
Some others, whose Labours were more than ordinary, and success answerable, God laid them to sleep, without any hint to their admirers, to put up so much as one Prayer for their continuance, viz. Mr. Gouge, whom I think none will grudge the Title of the Evangelist of Wales, who did more for the promoting the Gospel there, than ever was done before;