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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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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.
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.
3. It is hindered in all its Heavenly Operations. For the Body weigheth down the Soul. As a Bird that hath a stone tied to its Leg, is weighed down that it cannot fly aloft. So is the Heavenly Soul in the best Christian depressed by the Body, that it cannot mount aloft in Prayer and other Holy Exercises. The Soul and Body are like a pair of Scales, the more the one is up, the more the other goeth down. As Sauls Armour was a Burden to David, so is the Body to the Soul. The Body is quickly tired in the Service of God. The Spirit is willing, but the Flesh is weak, like a strong man upon a Jadish Horse, &c.