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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. Death puts an end to all the sweetness, pleasure and profit that is in sin. There are two things in the Serpent, sin. The speckled ⟨p. 24⟩black, and the sting in the tail of it. The pleasures of sin for a season, and the eternal pains attending it. A man out of Christ while he is alive and in health, sucks out the carnal sweetness that is in sin, it is as honey to his mouth. But when death comes, the sweetness of sin vanisheth, and nothing remains but the sting and torment of it. Even as a Thief, as long as he is unsound out, lives merrily upon what he hath stolen, but when he is found, and cast into Prison and condemned to be hanged, then he feels nothing but bitterness and sorrow. So it is with a wicked man; As long as he is in health and in prosperity, he takes great delight and content in sinning, but when he comes to be attached and arrested with Death, then the misery and cursedness of sin appears before him. Then he begins to say, Where is all the carnal pleasure I once took in my sinful courses? Nothing now remains but the Sting. Momentaneum quod delectat, aternum quod cruciat. That which delighted me was but momentany, but that which will torment me, is eternal.
3. Death puts an end to all the sweetness, pleasure and profit that is in sin. There are two things in the Serpent, sin. The speckled ⟨p. 24⟩black, and the sting in the tail of it. The pleasures of sin for a season, and the eternal pains attending it. A man out of Christ while he is alive and in health, sucks out the carnal sweetness that is in sin, it is as honey to his mouth. But when death comes, the sweetness of sin vanisheth, and nothing remains but the sting and torment of it. Even as a Thief, as long as he is unfound out, lives merrily upon what he hath stolen, but when he is found, and cast into Prison and condemned to be hanged, then he feels nothing but bitterness and sorrow. So it is with a wicked man; As long as he is in health and in prosperity, he takes great delight and content in sinning, but when he comes to be attached and arrested with Death, then the misery and cursedness of sin appears before him. Then he begins to say, Where is all the carnal pleasure I once took in my sinfull courses? Nothing now remains but the Sting. Momentaneum quod delectat, aternum quod cruciat. That which delighted me was but momentany, but that which will torment me, is eternal.