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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. 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.
2. It is hindered from Heavenly Operations. For the Body takes up all the time from the Soul; as the Lean Kine of Pharaoh devoured the fat, so the Provision for the Feeding and Clothing of the Body, eats up the time that should be spent about the Soul. It is with the Soul and Body, as it was with Abraham and Lot. Abraham had his Cattle and his Servants, and Lot his, so that the Country was too narrow for them. So the Soul hath her work, and the Body his, and there is hardly time enough for both; so as the one must needs hinder the other, and they never will be well till separated. The Cloth is too short to cover them both. And this must needs be a great Bondage when the Handmaid shall be preferred before her Mistress, Hagar before Sarah.
2. It is hindred from Heavenly Operations. For the Body takes up all the time from the Soul; as the Lean Kine of Pharaoh devoured the fat, so the Provision for the Feeding and Cloathing of the Body, eats up the time that should be spent about the Soul. It is with the Soul and Body, as it was with Abraham and Lot. Abraham had his Cattel and his Servants, and Lot his, so that the Country was too narrow for them. So the Soul hath her work, and the Body his, and there is hardly time enough for both; so as the one must needs hinder the other, and they never will be well till separated. The Cloath is too short to cover them both. And this must needs be a great Bondage when the Handmaid shall be preferred before her Mistress, Hagar before Sarah.