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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.
They will secondly object, all yonder things the ⟨p. 64⟩man speaks of may be true, nay we cannot deny but they are true, yet we may be doing and yet hope through Gods mercy to win to heaven; have not many who have lived even as we do died well and been saved? And such will readily have the thief on the cross to cast up, which would in reason speak to them for their reclaiming, and from this they profanely conclude that they may hold on their own way, and yet hope to mend and grow better at length and so to get mercy when they die; but for answer; 1. O! Thou graceless and profane wretch is that the use thou makes of mercy, even to sin because God is merciful, and to sin that grace may abound? Is that the end of Gods revealing his grace and mercy, to make him a minister of sin? How can ye look mercy in the face that so abuse mercy? And yet O! How rife is this among profane souls, to sin because God is merciful, to abuse his grace and make him, as I said, a minister of sin? Consider of it, if ye will dare to look grace and mercy in the face that have thus stumbled and broken your necks on them. Secondly though there be some that God hath given mercy to at their death, yet how many are they who have sinned presumptuously and have gotten mercy? The thief on the cross, it is true, got mercy, but did he ever despise and abuse Gods grace and mercy as ye do? It is one thing to sin out of infirmity and humbly to pray for, and to expect mercy, and another thing to sit warnings, and profanely to turn the grace of God into wantonness, and yet to have a presumptuous hope of mercy. Thirdly how many are there in hell, and how few are there in heaven who have lived as ye do? Gods Judgment hath come upon them and surprised them, so that they got never leave to repent nor seek after Gods mercy, and they are now smarting for delaying to embrace the offer of mercy, and for their despising of it, and cannot mend it? How ⟨p. 65⟩many are like the rich glutton crying in the place of torment, who if they were permitted to speak to you would say, go tell these our Brethren that they put not off time, and that they dally not in their day with the offers of grace and mercy as we did, least they come into this place of torment with us. Fourthly, Who ever got mercy to whom their sin hath not been bitter to them?
They will secondly object, all yonder things the ⟨p. 64⟩