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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 THESS. 4.14. — Even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.
1 THESS. 4.14. — Even so them also which sleep in Iesus, will God bring with him.
• N the former Verse, the Apostle persuades the Thessalonians not to mourn immoderately for the Saints Departed. He doth not forbid them to mourn, but not to mourn without measure. Religion doth not abolish natural Affections, but only mode[…]hem. Grace doth not destroy, but rectify Nature; it dep[…]ot of sense, but teacheth the right use of Senses. And he b[…] divers Arguments to dissuade us from immoderate M[…]ning.
• N the former Verse, the Apostle perswades the Thessalonians not to mourn immoderately for the Saints Departed. He doth not forbid them to mourn, but not to mourn without measure. Religion doth not abolish natural Affections, but only mode〈…〉hem. Grace doth not destroy, but rectifie Nature; it dep〈…〉ot of sense, but teacheth the right use of Senses. And he b〈…〉 divers Arguments to diswade us from immoderate M〈…〉ning.
Because this would bewray our Ignorance of the blessed ⟨p. 2⟩estate of Gods Children after this Life. This is set down, v. 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, Brethren, concerning them which are asleep.