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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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3. They that sleep in Jesus have this benefit also, That by their Union with Christ, and by the watchful Providence of God, there is a substance preserved, so as they are not utterly extinct, and annihilated by death, but something of their bodies remain undestroyed. There is nothing utterly, totally, and finally destroyed in a Child of God by death, but sin and misery. The rotting of the body in the grave is but as the rotting of the Corn in the earth, as the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 15.36. The Seed is cast into the earth, and there it dieth, and rotteth, but is not utterly extinct, but rotteth in the ground, that it may be quickened again: So the bodies of the Saints rot in their graves that they may be raised again, and made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ. And this is another reason why the death of a Child of God is called a sleep, because as a man asleep is not extinct, no more is he in the grave. There is a substance preserved, and as David saith of an afflicted righteous man, 1that God keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken: So God keepeth the dust and ashes of his Children, so as they shall not be utterly and totally consumed.
3. They that sleep in Iesus have this benefit also, That by their Union with Christ, and by the watchful Providence of God, there is a substance preserved, so as they are not utterly extinct, and annihilated by death, but something of their bodies remain undestroyed. There is nothing utterly, totally, and finally destroyed in a Child of God by death, but sin and misery. The rotting of the body in the grave is but as the rotting of the Corn in the earth, as the Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 15.36. The Seed is cast into the earth, and there it dieth, and rotteth, but is not utterly extinct, but rotteth in the ground, that it may be quickned again: So the bodies of the Saints rot in their graves that they may be raised again, and made like unto the glorious body of Iesus Christ. And this is another reason why the death of a Child of God is called a sleep, because as a man asleep is not extinct, no more is he in the grave. There is a substance preserved, and as David saith of an afflicted righteous man, 1