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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
Dedication: TO THE Most deservedly Honoured, AND Truly Honourable, Sir CHARLES HOGHTON AND THE Lady…
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It is by the inestimable favour of Heaven, that the mutual Interest God hath given you in each other, as it obliges, doth also (as I have great reason to hope) effectually dispose and enable you; so, not only to partake in the Comforts, but in the Sorrows that are common to you both, as that the former shall be greatly increased, and the latter proportionably allayed, and mitigated, thereby. Thus is the Advantage of your Conjugal State, both represented in God's Designation, and apprehended, in your own Experience.
It is by the inestimable favour of Heaven, that the mutual Interest God hath given you in each other, as it obliges, doth also (as I have great reason to hope) effectually dispose and enable you; so, not only to partake in the Comforts, but in the Sorrows that are common to you both, as that the former shall be greatly increased, and the latter proportionably allay'd, and mitigated, thereby. Thus is the Advantage of your Conjugal State, both represented in God's Designation, and apprehended, in your own Experience.
And you are to consider the Blessing of God herein, as having a peculiarity in it, not being extended to all so related, neither to all that were great in this World, nor to all that were Pious, and Good. Great ⟨p. 5⟩worldly Felicity, hath been rendered insipid and spiritless. Great Calamities, much the more bitter, by the want of a meet mutual helpfulness, between such Relations.
A Great, 1and a Good Man in his time. A Prince (as he is thought to have been) in his Country, a Man that was perfect, and upright, one that feared God, and eschewed Evil, when he lost not one, not the eldest, only, of his numerous Offspring, (as you have) but all at once, seven Sons, and three Daughters, with such concomitant Circumstances of accumulated Afflictions, as blessed be God, are not in your Case; and might now expect some relief, from his other self, the nearest and most inward Companion of his Life, and partaker of his Joys and Sorrows; All the Succour he hath from her, was n impious endeavour to provoke and