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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.
Wherefore, sayeth he, comfort one another with these words; As indeed there is good and non-such ground to do: Consider withal the great honour they will have at Judgment, and the happiness following it. To return then to what we proposed, seeing believers in Christ have such pregnant and impregnable grounds to comfort them against death, and seeing such sweet and passing-excellent fruits flow from these grounds, and since there is such a begun good at death that hath no end, may they not be very quiet in their life and at their death, and be exceedingly comforted, whatever be the time, the place, or manner, that God in his wisdom shall think fit to call them by death out of this present evil world?
Wherefore, sayeth he, comfort one another with these words; As indeed there is good and non-such ground to doe: Consider withall the great honour they will have at Judgment, and the happinesse following it. To returne then to what we proposed, seeing beleivers in Christ have such pregnant and impregnable grounds to comfort them against death, and seeing such sweet and passing-excellent fruits flow from these grounds, and since there is such a begun good at death that hath no end, may they not be very quiet in their life and at their death, and be exceedingly comforted, whatever be the time, the place, or manner, that God in his wisedome shall think fitt to call them by death out of this present evil world?
We come now to the Uses of this sweet point of doctrine; And the first use is of exhortation to believers: 1. To lay up this comfort, and 2ly, To bless God for this comfort, that he hath provided so ⟨p. 121⟩very well for you both in this life, and at and after your death; 3ly, Bless him that ever he was graciously pleased to bring you to this happy condition, when he might have left you altogether comfortless both in life and death, O! bless him that he hath given his Son Jesus Christ, that he is come, and that grace is through him extended that broad as to take you in: It should make you cry with holy David in a transport of admiration, what am I, and what is my fathers house, that thou hast brought me hitherto: