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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.
1. To his earthly hopes A wicked man builds Castles in the air, and promiseth great matters to himself, and saith, as the Rich man, 1Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God saith to him. Thou fool, this night thy Soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided. Death dasheth all his earthly hopes; and that which is worse,
2. Death dasheth all his Spiritual and supernatural hopes. A wicked man is ready to nourish in himself a presumptuous hope of Heaven, and doubts not but that he shall be saved; but when he comes to die, all his hopes of Heaven perish, and are as a Spiders web, easily swept away, Job 8.14. The Lord rejecteth his vain confidence, Jer. 2.37. Now this is a misery above expression, for a man to be disappointed of his eternal hopes.
2. Death dasheth all his Spiritual and supernatural hopes. A wicked man is ready to nourish in himself a presumptuous hope of Heaven, and doubts not but that he shall be saved; but when he comes to die, all his hopes of Heaven perish, and are as a Spiders web, easily swept away, Iob 8.14. The Lord rejecteth his vain confidence, Jer. 2.37. Now this is a misery above expression, for a man to be disappointed of his eternal hopes.