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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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Polycarp, 1that ancient and stout Champion of Jesus Christ, when he was at the Stake, amongst many other excellent words which he uttered, this was one, That his soul should that very day be represented before God in heaven.
Polycarpe, 1that ancient and stout Champion of Jesus Christ, when he was at the Stake, amongst many other excellent words which he uttered, this was one, That his soul should that very day be represented before God in heaven.
- 1Euseb. lib. 5 cap. 11
The truth is, This opinion of the Soul-sleepers is as pernicious as the opinion of those who say, That the Soul dies with the Body, and riseth with the Body. For this sleep must be either Natural, or Metaphorical; Of the first the Soul is not capable, and the second is nothing else but Death it self. 1Therefore Calvin, in his Book written on purpose against these Hypnologists, saith excellently, They that say, that the soul lives when out of the body, and yet deprive it of all sense and understanding, 2do feign to themselves a Soul which hath nothing of a Soul in it, and divorce the Soul it self from it self: For the nature of the Soul, without which it cannot any way consist, is to have motion, sense, and understanding. And as Tertullian saith, That Sense is the very soul of the Soul. So much in answer to the first question.
The truth is, This opinion of the Soul-sleepers is as pernicious as the opinion of those who say, That the Soul dies with the Body, and riseth with the Body. For this sleep must be either Natural, or Metaphorical; Of the first the Soul is not capable, and the second is nothing else but Death it self.