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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.
1. The Order, in giving it after ⟨p. 79⟩the Service of Christ faithfully and constantly performed. 'Tis the revealed Will of God, that all Men should honour the Son as they honour the Father: The Son is the Heir of his Love and Glory, and in serving him the Father is honoured and obeyed. And as our Saviour reigns eternally in Heaven, after the finishing his Work enjoined him by the Father, so according to his Example, we receive the Crown of Life after the course of our Obedience. This is the Tenor of the Promise: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne, 1even as I also overcame and am sat down with my Father in his Throne.
1. The Order, in giving it after ⟨p. 79⟩the Service of Christ faithfully and constantly performed. 'Tis the revealed Will of God, that all Men should honour the Son as they honour the Father: The Son is the Heir of his Love and Glory, and in serving him the Father is honoured and obeyed. And as our Saviour reigns eternally in Heaven, after the finishing his Work injoyned him by the Father, so according to his Example, we receive the Crown of Life after the course of our Obedience. This is the Tenor of the Promise: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne, 1even as I also overcame and am sat down with my Father in his Throne.
The Order in dispensing the blessed Reward, does not in the least eclipse the Honour of God's Grace, or afford the least shadow of presuming upon any Merit in our best Services. The Wages of Sin is Death, 'tis the just Desert