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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.
where he desires the Lord to take away his life, he conceiving himself as a Prophet to be discredited, and he is so headstrong that when the Lord asks him, does thou well to be angry Jonah? He answers pettishly, I do well to be angry even unto the death; where God hints it to be his passion that precipitated him, and by the gourd lets him see that it was his particular that too much swayed him, & that he was not right in his desire of death, or in his willingness to die.
where he desires the Lord to take away his life, he conceaving himselfe as a Prophet to be discredited, and he is so headstrong that when the Lord asks him, does thou well to be angrie Ionah? He answers pettishly, I doe well to be angrie even unto the death; where God hints it to be his passion that precipitated him, and by the gourd lets him see that it was his particular that too much swayed him, & that he was not right in his desyre of death, or in his willingnesse to die.
For the 2d, The commendable willingness, I shall show you what it is by four or five properties that it hath. 1. Right willingness to die is content to die in prosperity, and is submissive to live in adversity; when all things prosper with men, its a very rare thing to see them willing to die, though in fits of cross-dispensations, they may seem to be willing; ⟨p. 84⟩and to have a submissive mind contented to live in adversity, yea, in the midest of greatest troubles that are incumbent or imminent, is as rare: to be as Paul was, Philip. 1 23. content to abide or go as God thinks meet, is a sweet temper and frame of soul; to be willing to live shamed and reproached, and not to be discontented with the down-lookings of honest folks, and to go through evil report as well as good report, in all things labouring to keep a good conscience, and in prosperity, as I said, to be content to leave the world and all that is in it▪ when God calls by death, is a great matter. 2ly, right willingness hath this property, that it flows not so much from a desire to be quite of the troubles of the world, as to enjoy Christ and the good which the soul hopes for in and with him; it is not because either the persons own particular crosses grow, or because confusions, distractions, and contentions in the public increase, that they covet to be out of that life and to be gone, but because they long to be with Jesus Christ, We (sayeth the Apostle