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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.
It is a more weighty Allegation, and of more common concernment; When an useful person is gone, and one very capable of becoming very eminently so. And this requires deeper consideration, and sundry things ought to be considered in order to the quieting their minds, who are apt to behold such darker dispensations, in the course of Providence, with amusement, and disturbance of Spirit, i. e. When they see persons of excellent endowments, and external advantages, beyond the most, cut off in their Prime, while the World is cumbered with Drones, never likely to do good, and pestered with such, as are like to prove plagues to it, and do great hurt and mischief to the Age wherein they live. An ⟨p. 123⟩ancient and not uncommon scruple to pious observers heretofore. Wherefore (says Holy Job) do the wicked live, become old, yea are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight — Ch. 21.7, 8. When his Seed was cut off before his Eyes. And here let us consider,
It is a more weighty Allegation, and of more common concernment; When an useful person is gone, and one very capable of becoming very eminently so. And this requires deeper consideration, and sundry things ought to be considered in order to the quieting their minds, who are apt to behold such darker dispensations, in the course of Providence, with amusement, and disturbance of Spirit, i. e. When they see persons of excellent endowments, and external advantages, beyond the most, cut off in their Prime, while the World is cumbred with Drones, never likely to do good, and pestered with such, as are like to prove plagues to it, and do great hurt and mischief to the Age wherein they live. An ⟨p. 123⟩ancient and not uncommon scruple to pious observers heretofore. Wherefore (says Holy Job) do the wicked live, become old, yea are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight — Ch. 21.7, 8. When his Seed was cut off before his Eyes. And here let us consider,