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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.
7. Do not regret or dread to pass out of the one World into the other at his call, and under his conduct, though through the dark, passage of Death; remembering the Keys, are in so great and so kind a hand. And that his good pleasure herein is no more to be distrusted, than to be disputed or withstood. Let it be enough to you, that what you cannot see your self, he sees for you. You have oft desired ⟨p. 110⟩your ways, your motions, your removals from place to place, might be directed by him in the World. Have you never said if thou go not with me, carry me not hence? How safely and fearlessly may you follow him blindfold or in the dark any whither! not only from place to place, in this World, but from world to world! how lightsome soever the one, and gloomy and dark the other may seem to you. Darkness and light are to him alike. To him Hades is no Hades, nor is the dark way that leads into it to him an untrodden path. Shrink not at the thoughts of this translation, though it be not by escaping Death, but even through the jaws of it.
7. Do not regret or dread to pass out of the one World into the other at his call, and under his conduct, though through the dark, passage of Death; remembring the Keys, are in so great and so kind a hand. And that his good pleasure herein is no more to be distrusted, than to be disputed or withstood. Let it be enough to you, that what you cannot see your self, he sees for you. You have oft desired ⟨p. 110⟩your ways, your motions, your removals from place to place, might be directed by him in the VVorld. Have you never said if thou go not with me, carry me not hence? How safely and fearlesly may you follow him blindfold or in the dark any whither! not only from place to place, in this World, but from world to world! how lightsome soever the one, and gloomy and dark the other may seem to you. Darkness and light are to him alike. To him Hades is no Hades, nor is the dark way that leads into it to him an untrodden path. Shrink not at the thoughts of this translation, though it be not by escaping Death, but even through the jaws of it.