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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
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.
But as these Majestic Life-breathing words of our Great ⟨p. 74⟩Lord, do plainly offer the things that have been mentioned (and many more such that might occur) to our Thoughts and Meditation; so will they be thought on in vain, if they be not followed and answered by suitable Dispositions, and Actions of Heart and Life. Therefore the further use we are to make of this great Subject will be to lay down
But as these Majestick Life-breathing words of our Great ⟨p. 74⟩Lord, do plainly offer the things that have been mentioned (and many more such that might occur) to our Thoughts and Meditation; so will they be thought on in vain, if they be not followed and answered by suitable Dispositions, and Actions of Heart and Life. Therefore the further use we are to make of this great Subject will be to lay down
2. Divers correspondent things to be practised and done, which must also suppose dispositions and frames of Heart and Spirit agreeable thereto.
1. Let us Live expecting a period to be ere long put to our Life on Earth For remember, there are Keys put into a great hand for this very purpose, that holds them not in vain. His Power is of equal extent with the Law he is to proceed by. And by that ⟨p. 75⟩it is appointed for all once to Die. 1Therefore as in the Execution, he cannot exceed, so he will not come short of this appointment: When that once shall be, it belongs to him to determine. And from the course we may observe him to hold, as it is uncertain to all, it can be very remote to none. How short is the measure of a Span! 'Tis an absurd vanity o promise our selves that which is in the power of another. How Wise and Prudent a thing to accommodate our selves composedly to his pleasure, in whose power we are! And to live as Men continually expecting to die! There are bands of Death out of which, when they once take hold, we cannot free our selves. But there are also bands of Life, not less troublesome or dangerous.