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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.
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.
2. It holds forth this Lesson also, That Death is the Souls Goal-delivery. It is the letting of it loose from its Bonds and Fetters. Its is setting it at Liberty, like a Bird escaped out of a Cage. Now Lord let thy Servant depart; that is, be set at liberty from the prison of my body.
9. There is this Comfort also against the fear of death, That Jesus Christ is gone to heaven on purpose to prepare a place for the dead bodies of his Saints, and he will come again, and raise them up, and take them to himself, that where he is, there they may be also, John 14.2, 3. Therefore he is said to go into Heaven as a Forerunner, Heb. 6.20. Whither the forerunner is for us entered. Now a forerunner supposeth some that are to follow. Christ is entered before, to take up Lodgings for all that are asleep in him, and hath (as it were) written their several Names upon their several Lodgings, as is intimated,