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The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preached…The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd…
The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preached upon the decease of the Rnd Tho. Jacomb ... April 3, 1687 / by William Bates ...The way to the highest honour a funeral sermon, on John XII, 26, preach'd upon the decease of the Rnd Tho. Jacomb ... April 3, 1687 / by William Bates ...
London: printed for J. Robinson, 1687
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.
His Service is the most profitable: He will protect, maintain, and everlastingly reward his Servants. Is there any Master so rich, so liberal, so faithful as Christ? How often do the Slaves of the World complain that they have spent themselves in vain? As Jacob ⟨p. 117⟩reproached Laban, Thou hast deceived me, and changed my Wages ten times; so may the Worldlings say, whose Hopes have been often charmed with the specious Promises of the World, and deluded in the end. Dear bought Experience at last convinces them of their woeful Folly, in seeking for Happiness where it was not to be found, and neglecting to seek it where it was. But the Servants of Christ have at the present their Fruit unto Holiness, and in the end everlasting Life. The Service of Christ here, is Freedom, Victory, Empire, and hereafter a triumphant Felicity.
His Service is the most profitable: He will protect, maintain, and everlastingly reward his Servants. Is there any Master so rich, so liberal, so faithful as Christ? How often do the Slaves of the World complain that they have spent themselves in vain? As Jacob ⟨p. 117⟩reproached Laban, Thou hast deceived me, and changed my Wages ten times; so may the Worldlings say, whose Hopes have been often charm'd with the specious Promises of the World, and deluded in the end. Dear bought Experience at last convinces them of their woful Folly, in seeking for Happiness where it was not to be found, and neglecting to seek it where it was. But the Servants of Christ have at the present their Fruit unto Holiness, and in the end everlasting Life. The Service of Christ here, is Freedom, Victory, Empire, and hereafter a triumphant Felicity.
I shall now address my self to the present Occasion, which is to pay our last solemn Respects to the Memory of the Reverend Dr. Thomas Jacomb: who was so universally known, esteemed, and beloved in this City, that his Name is a noble and lasting Elogy. ⟨p. 118⟩