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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.
To the Very much HONOURED and Virtuous. LADY MADAM JEAN COKBURNE, Lady to the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT HEPBURN OF KEITH-MARESCHAL In East-Lothian, Knight.
To the Very much HONOURED and Vertuous. LADY MADAM JEAN COKBURNE, Lady to the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT HEPBURNE OF KEITH-MARESCHAL In East-Lothian, Knight.
MADAM,
When I was casting in my thoughts, to whom I should address the dedication of these, few following Sermons, your Ladyships self ⟨image 3⟩readily offered, being a person to whom I am upon many accounts singularly obliged, As I am likewise unto your Honourable Husband; Having also had the retirement and convenience not far from you, for revising and making them ready for the Press, which as you partly know, and as others may conjecture, was not so very easy a piece of work, considering that they were not taken from the Author's Pen, but from his mouth when preaching, by one of his ordinary hearers no Scholar, and afterwards transcribed by another person of less Judgment: Your La: being withal a genuine and undegenerat Daughter of the Ancient, Honourable, and Loyal Family of Ormestoune, eminently instrumental in our beautiful and blessed, in our great and glorious, work of Reformation from Popery, and famous (as it is hoped it will through grace still continue to be, if the like sad occasion, as we wish it never may, should again occur) for ready and cheerful receiving, harbouring, cherishing, and encouraging the faithful Servants of God and Martyrs of Jesus; particularly of renowned Mr. George Wishart, who was thence taken under trust by the unhappy Earle of Bothwell, now extinct and his memorial with him (the mentioning whereof, I know your Honourable Husband Sir Robert's just regard for the Reformed Protestant Religion, will easily persuade him o bear with, though he may be, for any thing I know, one of the nearest relations of that some-time great Nobleman now surviving)