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A sermon preached
A sermon preached by Mr. Edmund Calamy at Aldermanbury, London, Aug. 24, 1651 being a funeral sermon for Mr. Love on the Sabbath-day following after he was executed ... also four excellent doctrines and proposition to the Presbyterians and others to be by them practiced and meditated upon both morning and evening.
London: printed for G. Horton, 1651
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.
Beloved▪ when we come to die, we shall be stripped naked of three things, 1. We shall be stripped naked of all our worldly honour, riches and greatness. 2. We shall be stripped naked of our bodies. And 3. Which is above all, we shall be stripped naked of our sins. And that is the happiness of a child of God, he shall put off, not only his mortal body, but the body of sin.
B•loved▪ when we come to die, we shall be stript naked of three things, 1. We shall be stript naked of all our worldly honour, riches and greatnesse. 2. We shall be stript naked of our bodies. And 3. Which is above all, we shall be stript naked of our sins. And that is the happines of a child of God, he shall put off, not only his mortal body, but the body of sin.
4. In the fourth place observe, As no man knoweth the time when he falls asleep, a man falls asleep before he is aware: So no man can tell the certain time when he must die. There is nothing so certain as that we must die, nothing so uncertain as the time when we shall die; Death comes suddenly even as sleep comes upon a man before he is aware.
4. In the fourth place observe, As no man knoweth the time when he fals asleep, a man fals asleep before he is aware: So no man can tell the certain time when he must die. There is nothing so certain as that we must die, nothing so uncertain as the time when we shall die; Death comes suddenly even as sleep comes upon a man before he is aware.
5. Observe, As Children and infants, because they do not know the benefit of sleep, are very loth to go to sleep, many times the mother is fain to whip the child to bed; even so it is with most of Gods people, because they do not study the benefit of death, That death puts an end to all our miseries and sins, and opens a door to let us in unto everlasting happiness, and that we shall never see God or Christ before we die; I say, because Gods people do not study the benefit of death, therefore they are like to little children, loth to die, loth to go to bed. And therefore death is called The King of terrors. Death is terrible to many of Gods children, because they are but infants in grace, and because they do not know the benefit of death.