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The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned
The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned by (and in part preached upon) the death and funeral of Mr. Benjamin Lindsey, who deceased the 21st of February, 1697 / by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for John Lawrence, 1698
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.
4. That since your Son (now gone from you) hath made such competent Provision for you, that you need not spend your Breath in asking, What shall I eat, or what shall I drink, or wherewithal shall I be clothed? Your Enquiries might be, How shall I love God more, please him better, and be more prepared for my Eternal State? Since now you need not cark for Earth, take more Care for Heaven.
5. That since you have more Benefit of your Sense of Seeing, than of Hearing, supply the Defect of Hearing, by your diligent Reading; and the less you can hear Men speak to you in Discoursing, the more do you speak to God in Praying; and the less Converse you can have with the Creature, the more Communion do you desire, get, and maintain with God.
To the Rest of you, let me be your Remembrancer, that ye get a sanctified Improvement of this Breach by Death, that God hath made amongst you, that ye so mind Temporal, as not to forget your Eternal Concerns, to watch and be always ready, because the Son of Man might come, in an Hour that ye think not of; to prepare to follow him and others that are gone before: to keep up the Power of Godliness in your Hearts, and to demonstrate it in your Lives: Seriously and believingly to think of another world, and every Day you live in this, ⟨image 5⟩to stand in Time, and look into Eternity: To be Good, and to do Good, as he was, and did, that is taken from you, whereof (in Part) ye have been Eye-witnesses: To live Holily, that ye might die not only Peaceably, but also Triumphantly; as is his Prayer for you, who desires it might be yours for him, who is,
To the Rest of you, let me be your Remembrancer, that ye get a sanctified Improvement of this Breach by Death, that God hath made amongst you, that ye so mind Temporal, as not to forget your Eternal Concerns, to watch and be always ready, because the Son of Man might come, in an Hour that ye think not of; to prepare to follow him and others that are gone before: to keep up the Power of Godliness in your Hearts, and to demonstrate it in your Lives: Seriously and believingly to think of another world, and every Day you live in this,