A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…

Name: A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
Author: Edmund Calamy

A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666London : s.n., 1663

[652] p. · 313k words · Wing C5638 · ESTC R8646

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Mr. Calamy's Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Ash.

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Lastly, If you are gathered here to the Saints by love, then you shall be gathered to the Saints in Heaven, and to the everlasting enjoyment of God with them to all eternity. Consider this, every man shall be gathered (when he dies) to those whom he delights, and chooseth to keep pany with while he lives in this world. If you are gathered to the wicked in love and affection here, you shall be gathered to them at death in hell and destruction, for it is pity companions should be parted, wheat must to wheat, and tares to tares, for wheat and tares shall not be bound together at the last day.

Lastly, If you are gathered here to the Saints by love, then you shall be gathered to the Saints in Heaven, and to the everlasting injoyment of God with them to all eternity. Confider this, every man shall be gathered (when he dies) to those whom he delights, and chooseth to keep pany with while he lives in this world. If you are gathered to the wicked in love and affection here, you shall be gathered to them at death in hell and destruction, for it is pity companions should be parted, wheat must to wheat, and tares to tares, for wheat and tares shall not be bound together at the last day.

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The last use is of exhortation: If the righteous must perish, and if their death be nothing but a gathering, then take this threefold Exhortation.

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First, Let us labour to make the best use we can of our godly friends and Ministers before they be gathered; let us do as Elisha did, he was told that his Master Elijah was to be taken up to Heaven, and therefore he would never leave him till he had got the spirit of Elijah doubled upon him: If Elisha had not thought that Elijah would have been taken up that day, he would never have followed him so punctually and inseparably as he did. O beloved! did you believe that Text,

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