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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.
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⟩But it fares with them as with those who dream in their sleeps: 1Some dream of things delightful, and are comforted: Some of terrifying things, insomuch as when they awake they are afraid to sleep again, left their terrifying dreams should return. So (saith he) every man sleeps at death according to the condition of the life he hath led, and accordingly riseth and is judged. The Souls of good and bad at death have different receptacles; The good have joy and happiness: The wicked, misery and torment. The Soul of the wicked goeth immediately to Hell, where it hath little list to sleep, and his body lieth asleep in the grave. But how? Even as a Malefactor that sleeps in Prison the night before he is executed, but when he awakes he is hurried and dragged to execution. So the wicked man falls asleep at death, but when he awakes, he awakes to everlasting damnation. But a Child of God, when he sleeps the sleep of death, he sleeps in the arms of his Eldest Brother, and when he awakes, he awakes unto everlasting happiness.
2. That the death of an ungodly man, though it be a sleep, yet it is not a quiet, and comfortable, but a disquietting 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⟩But it fares with them as with those who dream in their sleeps: 1Some dream of things delightful, and are comforted: Some of terrifying things, insomuch as when they awake they are afraid to sleep again, left their terrifying dreams should return. So (saith he) every man sleeps at death according to the condition of the life he hath led, and accordingly riseth and is judged. The Souls of good and bad at death have different receptacles; The good have joy and happiness: The wicked, misery and torment. The Soul of the wicked goeth immediately to Hell, where it hath little list to sleep, and his body lieth asleep in the grave. But how? Even as a Malefactor that sleeps in Prison the night before he is executed, but when he awakes he is hurried and dragged to execution. So the wicked man falls asleep at death, but when he awakes, he awakes to everlasting damnation. But a Child of God, when he sleeps the sleep of death, he sleeps in the arms of his Eldest Brother, and when he awakes, he awakes unto everlasting happiness.