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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.
For as there are Principalities and Powers of Hell, that way-lay the separated Soul; so the Principalities and Powers of Heaven are ready to secure it.1 And if the Devil contended with the Archangel, and the Archangel with the Devil, about the Body of Moses, why should we think there is no War, betwixt the Principalities of Heaven and Hell, about the Soul on its Way to Heaven, or that the Soul is not active in resisting the violent Assaults of Devils, in Conjunction with the Holy Angels?
- 1Jude V. 9.
3. God's Love to, and Care of his People is manifested in the Ministration of Angels, in that they are charged to be their Keepers in all their Ways, Psal. 91. 11, 12. Now the Way of Believers is Two-fold, and they are to keep them in both, or else they do not keep them in all.
1. In the Way of their commanded Duty, in this Life. 2. In the Way to their promised Reward, and they are in this Way immediately after Death, till they enter into Heaven.