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The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…
The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in an evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in general and to dying in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfyingly handled / by James Durham.The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in ane evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in genereal and to dieing in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfieingly handled / by James Durham.
Glasgow? : s.n., 1681
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 Odds and Difference is both great and strange, in stead of sharing in the Glory of God, of Christ, and of his Angels, to be sharing of the Torment of the Devil and his Angels; If it be a very evil, nay the very worst condition, for a Person to have enmity at God in the height, and to have God an everlastingly irreconcilable enemy furiously pursuing his quarrel, though without all passion in him, yet with wonderful horror in the person that is thus plagued, It cannot sure be told to the full, how inconceivably evil and miserable their condition is that die out of Christ, nor what the hazard is that many of you are in, in reference to it.
the Ods and Difference is both great and strange, in stead of shareing in the Glorie of God, of Christ, and of his Angels, to be shareing of the Torment of the Devil and his Angels; If it be a verie evil, nay the verie worst condition, for a Person to have enimitie at God in the hight, and to have God ane everlastingly irreconciliable enemie furiously persueing his quarrel, though without all passion in him, yet with wonderful horrour in the person that is thus plagued, It cannot sure be told to the full, how inconceavably evil and miserable their condition is that die out of Christ, nor what the hazard is that many of you are in, in reference to it.
The first use of this is, for exhorting you not to think it of light or little concernment how ye die, nor a thing unworthy of your most serious and painful endeavours to be made sure on good grounds that ye shall die in him; if it be of great concernment to get heaven and to escape hell, to be […] Gods company and not in the devils for ever, to have love and not hatred to God for ever, and to have Gods love to you & not his hatred for ever (for death casts the balance); set, O! Set yourselves seriously to obtain the one and eschew the other; and there is no way to win at it but by being, living, and dying in Christ.
The first use of this is, for exhorting you not to think it of light or litle concernment how ye die, nor a thing unworthie of your most serious and painefull endeavours to be made sure on good grounds that ye shall die in him; if it be of great concernment to get heaven and to escape hell, to be Gods companie and not in the devills for ever, to have love and not hatred to God for ever, and to have Gods love to you & not his hatred for ever (for death casts the ballance); sett, O! Sett yourselves seriouslie to obtaine the one and eshew the other; and there is no way to win at it but by being, living, and dieing in Christ.