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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.
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.
2. This is to act as hopeless, Heathens, not as Christians. This is put down in the same Verse,—That ye sorrow not even as others, that have no hope. Though Heathens who have no hope of a better Life after this, do mourn immeasurably, yet this doth not become Christians, who have hope in death, and who believe the Life Everlasting.
3. Because the death of a Saint is not an utter Extinction, and abolition of the man, but only a quiet and comfortable sleep. Verse 13, 14.
4. Because they are so far from being abolished, and utterly extinct, that they are asle•• in Jesus. They are, even while they are in their Graves, at rest in the Arms of Jesus. The Greek is, [Greek or Hebrew], they that sleep by Jesus. But as Grotius observes, [Greek or Hebrew] is put for [Greek or Hebrew], so it is taken,