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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.
SERMON V.
Revel. 14: 13. Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord, &c.
IT hath been an old saying of many, that none can be called blessed before their death, though possibly in the sense that some Heathens took it, it be not sound, yet we who are Christians may say, if death be not taken in, and if a man be not blessed at his death he is not blest at all, and though death after a very short whiles abode in the world putts men out of time, yet it hath a long train of eternal consequents following it, appearance before God in Judgment, and everlasting well or ill being, are no trivial nor light matters; and yet as men close their eyes in time at death, so they may expect the misery or comfort that Judgment and eternity will bring along with them; and it is the great scope and design of this Scripture to commend to you dying well from the blessedness that accompanies and follows it.
IT hath been ane old saying of many, that none can be called blessed before their death, though possiblie in the sense that some Heathens took it, it be not sound, yet we who are Christians may say, if death be not taken in, and if a man be not blessed at his death he is not blest at all, and though death after a verie short whiles aboad in the world putts men out of time, yet it hath a long traine of eternal consequen•s following it, appearance before God in Judgment, and everlasting well or ill being, are no trivial nor light matters; and yet as men close their eyes in time at death, so they may expect the miserie or comfort that Judgment and eternitie will bring along with them; and it is the great scope and designe of this Scripture to commend to you dieing well from the blessednesse that accompanies and followes it.