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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.
THE Saints Convoy TO HEAVEN.
Luke XVI. 22. And it came to pass that the Beggar died, and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's Bosom.
SOME think it is not material whether the Discourse of our Lord Jesus concerning the Rich Man and the Beggar, be taken as a Parable, or an History, or composed of both; when it is confessed, that under this Narration, Christ describes the State of the Good and Bad in the other World, and asserts the Existence of the ⟨p. 2⟩Soul, after its Separation from the Body; and that it immediately passeth to Heaven or Hell, before the Resurrection of the Body, and general Judgment of the great Day.
Tho' there was a Disparity between Lazarus spoken of in the Text, and our Friend, whose Death is the Occasion of this Discourse upon it, in regard of their outward Circumstances in this World; yet if the latter be a Partaker of Felicity with the former, in the other World, I might easily be excused for choosing this as my Theme upon this sad, but righteous Providence: especially, when there is no other so express to my Design as this is.