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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.
but sobriety fits him for his work and makes the way easy to him, makes him well content with his house or place and station and with whatever is his condition and lot in the world, it suffers not his affections to be entangled with them, it makes him so to use this world as not abusing it; As the Apostle exhorts, 1 Cor. 7. to have a sort of sanctified denyednesse to a lawful use of the creature-comforts, that the heart be not glutted and surfeited with them, from which, our blessed Lord Jesus doeth most powerfully dissuade, Luke 21. v. 34. ⟨p. 58⟩where he says, Take head least at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares; where he plainly insinuates (which is strange and little believed and considered) that there is an overcharge by cares about the things of this life lawful in themselves, as well indisposing and unfitting for death and Judgment, as an overcharge with surfeiting & drunkenness is. This sobriety prepares for dying in the Lord, to which preparation on the contrary, an overcharge with worldly cares is a mighty impediment, as these words of our Lord put beyond all debeat; especially when these two are trysted together, a distempered mind with such worldly cares within, & many tentations and stumbling blocks from without.
but sobrietie fitts him for his work and makes the way easie to him, makes him well content with his house or place and station and with whatever is his condition and lot in the world, it suffers not his affections to be entangled with them, it makes him so to use this world as not abuseing it; As the Apostle exhorts, 1 Cor. 7. to have a sort of sanctified denyednesse to a lawful use of the creature-comforts, that the heart be not glutted and surffetted with them, from which, our blessed Lord Jesus doeth most powerfully diswade, Luke 21. v. 34. ⟨p. 58⟩where he sayes, Take head least at anie time your hearts be overcharged with surffetting and drunkennesse and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares; where he plainlie insinuats (which is strange and little beleived and considered) that there is ane overcharge by cares about the things of this life lawful in themselves, as well indisposeing and unfitting for death and Judgment, as ane overcharge with surffetting & drunkennesse is. This sobrietie prepares for dieing in the Lord, to which preparation on the contrarie, ane overcharge with worldlie cares is a mightie impediment, as these words of our Lord put beyond all debeat; especiallie when these two are trysted togither, a distempered mind with such worldlie cares within, & manie tentations and stumbling blocks from without.