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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.
In the 2d place, take some comfortable considerations as so many fruits that spring from these grounds, or as so many fruits of Gods love and everlasting Covenant. 1. God gives charge to his Angels to attend on believers at death, for convoying their souls to the bosom of Abraham, Luk. 16. for if Angels be ministering Spirits to page and wait on them in their life, they are much more so at their death; God is so tender of them that he hath Angels moe then one waiting on them; And though this come not up the length of the former grounds of comfort, springing more immediately from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, yet its exceeding comfortable when neither Minister nor Friend can comfort, that they have glorious Angels to be with them for ever, to convoy them to Heaven, which is by them accounted an honourable piece of service. 2. The present happiness wherewith the soul is possessed on the back of death, (for its immediately carried as I said, to the bosom of Abraham, or rather to the bosom of Jesus Christ) Take a word of it in these two (which we spoke to more largely before,) 1. They have a perfect freedom from all ills of this life, no sin, no challenge, no accusation, no cross, no difficulty, no weight, all •ears are wiped from their eyes, sorrow and sighing flee away, they have absolute freedom from all the disquietness that is here: 2. They are brought to the possession of their hope, they are brought to the immediate enjoyment of God and of Christ as man visible, they are furnished with all desirable perfections, nothing is now in part, all is perfect, they are perfect in knowledge, they have a clear resolution to all their doubts anent things which we disput long about here with much contention, and seldom come to a clearly satisfying ⟨p. 119⟩close; a glance of God and of Christ fully satisfieth as to all these; There is an admission to all the privileges of Heaven, a place given among them that stand by, a sitting on Thrones with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob▪ M•ses, Samuel, David, and with the rest of the Prophets; with Paul, James▪ John, and the rest of the Apostles, where they behold the face of God and of the Lamb, and are amongst his attendants serving him always without any the least weariness, weight, or burden, without any difficulty or indisposition, and blessing and praising him for ever and ever;