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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.
The doctrine which we shall now propose and prosecute lieth plainly and obviously in the very words of the text, they are blessed and happy, yea they are only blessed and happy that are dead in the Lord Christ or shall die in him; a voice from heaven asserts ⟨p. 15⟩it to John, and the Spirit adds a confirmation of it, yea says the Spirit, who is the Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of truth; we shall ere we proceed further in a word or two clear these things in the doctrine which are also in the words. 1. What this blessedness is? It is spoken of here as that which is singularly so, its the only happy condition that can be truly thought of in all the world, its even to be fully and completely blessed. 2. What is the necessary qualification of these persons who are pronounced to be blessed? Its not these that die, but these that die in the Lord that are thus blessed; and for clearing of this beside what we said the last day we shall now add, that there are two sorts of dying spoken of in Scripture. 1. There is a dying in sin, if ye believe not in me, ye shall die in your sins, says Christ to the Jews John 8. vers. 24. and this implies two things. 1. Ye shall die under the guilt of your sins, and under the curse and wrath of God which ye deserve, before death, at death, & after death. 2. Ye shall die in a sinful estate in opposition to repentance for sin, ye shall slip away and be removed in that sinful condition, ye shall depart and go off the world in that sinful state, O sad & sorrowful departure! 2. There is a dying in the Lord and this implies two things also just opposite to dying in sin. 1. That persons in the sense of their sin have betaken themselves to Christ and are freed from the guilt of sin by faith in him and are clothed with his righteousness or with a right and title to it. 2. It implieth a breaking off of the course of sin, and the bringing forth the fruits of a new nature and life, by a lively faith in Christ in whom as the true vine they are as so many branches grafted abiding in him and bringing forth fruit to him that his father may be glorified and they manifested to be his disciples John 15. Who as they have union with him by faith, so they have communion with him in the fruits of sanctification;
The doctrine which we shall now propose and prosecute lyeth plainly and obviously in the verie words of the text, they are blessed and happie, yea they are only blessed and happie that are dead in the Lord Christ or shall die in him; a voice from heaven asserts