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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. The death of a Child of God is called a sleep, 1because he is thereby laid to rest. The Scripture calls their graves, their beds of rest. And the Apostle tells us, That they which dye in the Lord rest from all their labours. They are at rest from all corporal and spiritual evils.
1. The death of a Child of God is called a sleep, 1because he is thereby layed to rest. The Scripture calls their graves, their beds of rest. And the Apostle tells us, That they which dye in the Lord rest from all their labours. They are at rest from all corporal and spiritual evills.
- 1Habent omines animae cum de seculo exierint, divers as receptions suas haebent guadium boni, & mal• tormenta.Habent omines animae cum de seculo exierint, divers as receptiones suas haebent guadium boni, & mal• tormenta.
First, From all corporal evils.
First, From all corporal evills.
1. From all sicknesses, diseases, pains, and all other bodily infirmities. 1Death is that great Physician which will cure Gods people of all diseases at once, and for ever. Thus the blind and lame man said one to the other at the Stake: