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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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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.
3. It is hindred 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.
3. Because the Soul is defiled by the Body, as a man in a Nasty Prison. God gave man a Heavenly Soul, and an Earthly body, that the Heavenly Soul might lift up the Earthly Body towards Heaven: But now it fares quite contrary. Our earthly Bodies have weighed down our heavenly Souls, and made them earthly and sensual. Tamdiu versata est Anima in Tabernaculo, ut ipsa versa est in Tabernaculum. The Soul hath lived so long in a Body of flesh, that it is (as it were) fleshified, and bodified. The Soul looks through an eye of flesh, and every thing seems fleshly to it. It is diverted by the ⟨p. 22⟩Body from its true End. The true End of the Soul is to know God, to love, fear and serve him. But the body diverts the Stream, and turns the Soul to serve men, and to provide for back and belly. And therefore it may fitly be called the Souls Prison.