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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 last thing we spoke to was a Doctrine from the ⟨p. 36⟩words as they lye, that they and they only are blessed who die in the Lord; now ere we further prosecute the main uses of the Doctrine we shall speak a word to that which is manifestly implied here, and it is this, that as they are blessed who die in the Lord, so they are exceedingly miserable that die out of him in their sins; for the affirming of the one implies and supposes the other; and it might follow on the former Doctrine as an use, however its clearly in the words and commends dying in Christ to you all, and serves to stir you up to be serious to make that sure, and therefore we exhort, beseech, and obtest you to count it of concernment even of the greatest concernment unto you, it is to you Men and Women that we speak and not to walls, to timber and stones, sleep not neither let your minds vaig and wander, for we are speaking the words of truth, that many of you may be made to find the truth of too late.
The last thing we spoke to was a Doctrine from the ⟨p. 36⟩words as they lye, that they and they only are blessed who die in the Lord; now ere we further prosecut the main uses of the Doctrine we shall speak a word to that which is manifestly implyed here, and it is this, that as they are blessed who die in the Lord, so they are exceedingly miserable that die out of him in their sinnes; for the affirming of the one implyes and supposes the other; and it might follow on the former Doctrine as ane use, however its cleirly in the words and commends dieing in Christ to you all, and serves to stirr you up to be serious to make that sure, and therefore we exhort, beseech, and obtest you to count it of concernment even of the greatest concernment unto you, it is to you Men and Women that we speak and not to walls, to timber and stones, sleep not neither let your minds vaig and wander, for we are speaking the words of truth, that many of you may be made to find the truth of too late.
In prosecuting this Doctrine, we shall speak a little to the clearing of both the branches of it, and then come to the use. The first branch is, that there are many that die not in Christ, this is clearly implied in the words; Its looked on as a rare thing in the spreading of the Gospel after the reign of Antichrist to find People dying in the Lord, he is a rare so a happy man that dies in him. The second branch of it is, that be who they will that die not in him but die out of him in their sins, they die exceeding miserably; we shall confirm the first, and then speak a little to the explication of the second.