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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.
And is not this a most heartsome and comfortable life and lot? May not a believer then yield to death, yea and make it very welcome on this ground? Considering what a miserable world he lives in, and how eminently, abundantly, and superexcellently all the vain and evanishing shadows and shows here away are made up, by what is most real, solid, substantial, satisfying, and abiding there. There is 3ly, the resurrection of believers bodies; though this tabernacle be dissolved and go to the dust, yet up again it must; and that part of Isaiah his song, Cap. 26. is then eminently verified, Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise; awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust, for their dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead: As in winter the herbs are not seen, yet the roots remain in the ground and they rise again in the spring, so (sayeth faith resting on the word of promise) shall the bodies of the godly and these that lye down mortal rise immortal, having agility and aptitude to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes; these bodies that were sown in corruption & dishonour, and which after a while lying in the ground become very loathsome, shall be raised in incorruption and glory, even conform to the glorious body of Jesus Christ; these bodies that were sown in weakness, even such weakness that they could not ⟨p. 120⟩go on their own feet to the grave, nay that were without all life, motion, sense, and feeling, shall be raised in power, as you may see at greater length in these excellently sweet and comfortable words of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 15. wherein not only he clears the great truth of the resurrection, but also shows what grounds of comfort himself and other believers had against death in it. 4ly and lastly, Consider what will be the souls and the bodies case when that desirable day of the resurrection comes, when these two old intimates shall meet together, and as it were renew their acquaintance again in much better condition then they parted, there will be no more a wrestling thenceforth betwixt flesh and spirit, but a holy harmony in an unit and joint enjoying of God, in an unit and joint delighting in, and serving of God, and in an unit and joint satisfaction in God and in being with God for evermore, for we shall be for ever wi•h the Lord, saith the Apostle, 1 Thess. 4