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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. Because the Soul is hidden in the Body, as a man is hidden in a Prison. As Plato saith of Virtue, That if a man could see it with corporal eyes, he could not but love it. So may I say of the Soul; If a man could see the Beauty, Glory and Excellency of it, he could not but admire it, and highly value it. But it is hidden in the Body as in a Prison.
1. Because the Soul is hidden in the Body, as a man is hidden in a Prison. As Plato saith of Vertue, That if a man could see it with corporal eyes, he could not but love it. So may I say of the Soul; If a man could see the Beauty, Glory and Excellency of it, he could not but admire it, and highly value it. But it is hidden in the Body as in a Prison.
2. Because the Soul is hindered by the Body, and that Three ways.
2. Because the Soul is hindred by the Body, and that Three waies.
1. It is hindered from Heaven. For whilst we are in the ⟨p. 21⟩body, we are absent from the Lord, and we cannot be with Christ, till we be dissolved. And this is truly a Prison wherein a man is absent from his best Friends and Acquaintance.
1. It is hindred from Heaven. For whilst we are in the ⟨p. 21⟩body, we are absent from the Lord, and we cannot be with Christ, till we be dissolved. And this is truly a Prison wherein a man is absent from his best Friends and Acquaintance.