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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.
Use 2. In opposition to the former security and stupid unconcernedness let me beseech you to mind this more seriously which is so certain & to take more pains to the preparing of yourselves for it, eternity is long O vastly and incomprehensibly long, heaven and hell are matters of great unspeakably great moment and consequence, when the master or goodman of the house is (to say so) laid down and hath shut the door there will thenceforth be no opening; its now your summer, provide O provide for your long winter, its ill thrift to leave that which is of greatest concernment hindmost, and to put over the securing of your eternal state till the time of sickness & death, ye know not if ever ye shall get advertisement by any l•inthened disease; and sickness will have much to do with itself, neither know ye but ye may be snatched away in a moment on the sudden, and believe it, its no common thing to die well, and to have death as the entry and door to happiness.
Use 2. In opposition to the former securitie and stupid unconcernednesse let me beseech you to mind this more seriously which is so certaine & to take more paines to the prepareing of yourselves for it, eternitie is long O vastlie and incomprehensiblie long, heaven and hell are matters of great unspeakablie great moment and consequence, when the master or goodman of the house is (to say so) laid downe and hath shutt the door there will thenceforth be no opening; its now your summer, provyde O provyde for your long winter, its ill thrift to leave that which is of greatest concernment hindmost, and to put over the secureing of your eternall state till the tyme of sicknesse & death, ye know not if ever ye shall gett advertisement by any l•inthened disease; and sicknesse will have much to doe with itselfe, neither know ye but ye may be snatched away in a moment on the sudden, and beleive it, its no common thing to die well, and to have death as the entrie and door to happinesse.
Therefore to stir you up seriously and timeously to mind dying that ye may not with the sluggard say yet a little sleep yet a little slumber, and yet a little folding of the hands to sleep, whereby the fool is slain, consider 1. that it will not be bare wis as that will make