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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
THE Saints Convoy TO HEAVEN. › Application 3: Use III. Exhortation.
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.
2. To Watch them, to preserve them from Hurt and Danger, pitching their Camps about their Dwellings, Psal. 34. 7. and many a Night our Safety hath been more from the watchful Angels, than the Watchmen in the Streets; for except the Lord keep the City, 1(which he often doth by Angels) the Watchmen waketh but in vain.
3. To be instrumental in healing them when they have been sick and diseased: We may owe more to Angels herein (under God) than to the Physicians, being more skilful than they; and how far godly Physicians might be helped in prescribing their Medicines, by the secret, undiscernible Suggestions of knowing, holy Angels, is a thing seldom thought of, Joh. 5. 4.
4. To supply our outward Wants, when reduced to great Straits, 1 King. 19. 5, 6, 7.