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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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2. From evil company, and evil examples. In this life the Wheat are mingled with Chaff and Tares, and cannot but hear the name of the Great God blasphemed and dishonoured, which is a great vexation to them, 1as it was to Lot in Sodom. But at death they shall be separated from all chaff and tares, and shall never hear God dishonoured any more.
3. From Divine desertions. In this life God many times withdraweth the light of his countenance from his sinning Children, which is more terrible to them than death it self: For if his loving kindness is better than life, 1then his frowns are worse than death. But after death the light of Gods countenance shall shine perpetually upon them, and never admit either of a cloud, or Eclipse.
4. From the very being and existence of sin. The death of the body frees them perfectly from the body of death. Death drieth up the bloody issue of sin, 1root and branch. As sin at first begat and brought forth death, so death at last destroys sin, as the worm kills the tree that bred it. Therefore St. Austin saith, Plus restituitur quam amittitur. More is restored to a Child of God than he lost in Adam: For Adam had only a power not to sin, but he by death hath an impossibility of sinning. Sin was Obstetrix mortis, a Midwife to bring death into the World,