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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.
For clearing of the first, that they are exceedingly blessed that are dead or shall die in the Lord, we need to do no more but to describe happiness or blessedness, & we will find it exactly to agree in all its properties and circumstances to them that are dead or shall die in Christ; O! Sirs look not on this as a story or some airy notion, but as that which is a great reality, a thing which some of our Christian acquaintance dead in the Lord do now enjoy, and which others ere long shall enjoy, and that which by faith in him ye may all enjoy if ye prejudge not yourselves of it; there are two things necessary to, and constitutive of, true blessedness or happiness, 1. An absolute freedom from all evil, from every thing that troubles or may be the cause of trouble, and from any sinful blameable or unsuitable defect or want, for happiness cannot consist or stand with any thing of that kind. 2. A concurrence of all the good things that are necessary to complete blessedness or happiness, both which are enjoyed by all these that die in the Lord and by them only.
For cleiring of the first, that they are exceedingly blessed that are dead or shall die in the Lord, we need to doe no more but to describe happinesse or blessednesse, & we will find it exactly to agrie in all its propperties and circumstances to them that are dead or shall die in Christ; O! Sirs look not on this as a storie or some airy notion, but as that which is a great realitie, a thing which some of our Christian acquaintance dead in the Lord doe now enjoy, and which others ere long shall enjoy, and that which by faith in him ye may all enjoy if ye prejudge not yourselves of it; there are two things necessarie to, and constitutive of, true blessednesse or happinesse, 1. Ane absolute freedome from all evil, from every thing that troubles or may be the cause of trouble, and from any sinfull blameable or unsuteable defect or want, for happinesse cannot consist or stand with any thing of that kind. 2. A concurrence of all the good things that are necessarie to compleit blessednesse or happinesse, both which are injoyed by all these that die in the Lord and by them only.
For the first part of it they that die in• he Lord are perfectly freed from all evil, which holds true whither we look to it more generally or with more particular respect to the scope; they are freed from all these evils that an evil time hath with it: to descend into the particular consideration of this blessedness would