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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.
Quest. 2. Is not the death of a wicked man called a sleep as well as the death of a Saint?
Answ. This cannot be denied. It is said of Baasha, Omri, and Jeroboam, who were three wicked Kings, that they slept with their Fathers. But then I answer:
Answ. This cannot be denied. It is said of Baasha, Omri, and Ieroboam, who were three wicked Kings, that they slept with their Fathers. But then I answer:
1. That this is but very seldom used.
1. That this is but very seldome used.
2. That the death of an ungodly man, though it be a sleep, yet it is not a quiet, and comfortable, but a disquieting and terrifying sleep. As Nebuchadnezzar was much troubled in his sleep, and, as many sick men have very unquiet sleeps, so as they are more sick when they awake than before they slept, so is it with a wicked man. Both good and bad (saith St. Austin) sleep at death; ⟨p. 5⟩