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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.
Their most valuable design for another World is seldom thought on in season, their little designs for this World they contrive and prosecute with that confidence, as if they thought the World to be theirs, and themselves their own, and they had no •ord over them. This rude insolence that holy Apostle animadverts upon, of such as say, To Day or to Morrow we ⟨p. 83⟩will go to such a City, 1and continue there a •ear, and Buy and Sell, and get Gain, whereas they know not what shall be on the morrow. And What is their Life? a Vapour, &c. So much of Duty, and becoming Behaviour is in the mean time forgotten as to say, If the Lord will we shall live, &c. This is to bear themselves as absolute Masters of their own Lives. How bold an affront to their Sovereign Lord? They feel themselves well in Health, Strength, and Vigour, and seem resolved it shall be a Trial of Skill who hath the Power, or to whom the Keys belong, till it come to the last irrefragable demonstration, that he changes their Countenance and sends them away, Joh. 14.20. and then they go driven, plucked, and torn away from their dwelling-place ⟨p. 84⟩rooted out of the Land of the living, Psal. 2.55.
Their most valuable design for another World is seldom thought on in season, their little designs for this World they contrive and p•osecute with that confidence, as if they thought the World to be theirs, and themselves their own, and they had no •ord over them. This rude insolence that holy Apostle animadverts upon, of such as say, To Day or to Morrow we ⟨p. 83⟩will goe to such a City, 1and continue there a •ear, and Buy and Sell, and get Gain, whereas they know not what shall be on the morrow. And What is their Life? a Vapour, &c. So much of Duty, and becoming Behaviour is in the mean time forgotten as to say, If the Lord will we shall live, &c. This is to bear themselves as absolute Masters of their own Lives. How bold an affront to their Soveraign Lord? They feel themselves well in Health, Strength, and Vigour, and seem resolved it shall be a Trial of Skill who hath the Power, or to whom the Keys belong, till it come to the last irrefragable demonstration, that he changes their Countenance and sends them away,