A37028:104
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 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.
A 2d use, serves wonderfully to check and reprove the senseless secure multitude that have the common ⟨p. 41⟩profession of the faith of these things, and yet are utterly careless to have this most concerning question clearly, distinctly, convincingly, and satisfyingly answered, whither they shall die in the Lord? Certainly there are many of you when your souls shall dislodge that will find yourselves exceedingly mistaken in this matter; O! If we could pity and lament over the lamentable condition of many of you who are so senseless, stupid, and unconcerned, that what ever is spoken of the life to come and of the necessity of making your peace with God through Jesus Christ, it is as if it were spoken to so many stocks or stones as to any suitable effect it hath upon you, for who of many of you quit their profaneness, formality, hypocrisy, and security? Who through grace mends any thing faulty and amiss? Or sets more timeously and seriously about the learning of this great lesson of dying in the Lord? The supine, lazy, and gross neglect of all which, bids you look for and lay your account to meet with the deeper, sorer, and sadder challenges at your death and appearance before Gods terrible tribunal.