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The happiness of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to…The happinesse of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to…
The happiness of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to the dead bodies of the saints even while they are in the grave, sleeping in Jesus delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Lady Anne Waller, at the new church in Westminst[er], Oct. 31, 1661 : together with the testimony then given unto her / by Edm. Calamy ...The happinesse of those who sleep in Jesus, or, The benefit that comes to the dead bodies of the saints even while they are in the grave, sleeping in Jesus delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of ... Lady Anne Waller, at the new church in Westminst[er], Oct. 31, 1661 : together with the testimony then given unto her / by Edm. Calamy ...
London: printed by J.H. for Nathanael Webb, 1662
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IT hath pleased the wise God, & your heavenly Father, to exercise you with variety of sad Providences, & to train you up for himself and his Kingdom, by many Troubles and Afflictions. It hath always been his Method to prepare his Children by light and moment any crosses, for a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory, and by embittering the pleasures of this world, to sweeten the delights of a better
IT hath pleased the wise God, & your heavenly Father, to exercise you with variety of sad Providences, & to train you up for himself and his Kingdom, by many Troubles and Afflictions. It hath alwaies been his Method to prepare his Children by light and moment any crosses, for a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory, and by imbittering the pleasures of this world, to sweeten the delights of a better
This, Sir, hath been your Portion, And I doubt not but you have learned, and are instructed by God in whatsoever state you are, therewith to be contented, and are made able to say with David, It is good for you that you have been afflicted.
This last Trial was one of the sorest that ever yet betided you, being the loss of so Precious a Lady, so suitable a Wife, full of so much Goodness and Prudence. But when you consider, that your Loss is her Gain, that she is taken away from the evil to come, that she is not lost, but gone before to her Father, and your Father, to her God, and your God; that her Soul is at rest in Abraham's bosom, and her body, even while in the grave, asleep in Jesus, and who it is that hath taken her from you; this doth much allay the immoderateness of your sorrow, & enables you to say with holy Job, 1The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh, blessed be the Name of the Lord; and with holy David,