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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.
For the First, we shall not insist in it having touched ⟨p. 46⟩on it a little before; what we would say of it now, we shall briefly sum up in these two; 1. To some things that are in the affections that accompany a person that dies in the Lord, or in some properties that go along with it. 2. In something of the grounds that these flow from.
For the First, we shall not insist in it haveing touched ⟨p. 46⟩on it a little before; what we would say of it now, we shall briefly summ up in these two; 1. To some things that are in the affections that accompanie a person that dies in the Lord, or in some propperties that goe alonge with it. 2. In something of the grounds that these flow from.
For the first, there are these three things or properties that go along with dying in the Lord, or with them that die in him, that are exceedingly desirable; 1. A dying willingly and cheerfully, not going to death as to a prison, but as through a trance to a palace, Its a dying as old Simeon died, Luke 2, Now (saith he) lettest thou thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy Salvation; though death be the King of terrors, he hasteneth to it; or it is a dying as Paul died, who desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ, as being best of all, 2. It is a dying with holy confidence and boldness, not with fear and terror or anxiety, doubtfully disputing what will become of them, but being confidently assured of a mansion in Heaven; We know, saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5. v. 1, 2. if the earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens; for in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from above; being confident that at death his happy condition was but as it were beginning; to die in Christ makes a man to set himself boldly against death and all its terrors. 3. Its a dying not only with peace and quietness but with complacency and satisfaction, and even so that if the soul had its wish it desires no more, the man does not fret nor complain that he is taken from a good and plentiful estate, from a fine and commodious dwelling, from friends & relations, from honour and repute in the world &c. but he dies with contentment being fully satisfied with his right and to look to the fair inheritance above, this we may see