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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.
'Tis true, that service to God and our Redeemer in this present state, is necessary in its own kind, highly acceptable to God, and justly much valued by good Men. And we ought our selves willingly to submit to serve God in a meaner capacity in this World, while it is his pleasure we shall do so, especially if God should have given any signification of his mind, concerning our abode in the Flesh, some longer time, as 'tis likely he had done to the Apostle Paul, Phil. 1.24. because he says, he was confident, and did know that so it should be, ver. 25. we should be abundantly satisfied with it, as he was. But to suppose an abode here, to be simply, and universally more eligible, is very groundless, and unreasonable. And were a like case, as if a person of very extraordinary abilities and accomplishments, ⟨p. 159⟩because he was useful in some obscure Country Village, is to be looked upon as lost, because his Prince, being informed of his great worth, calls him up to his Court, and finding him every way fit, employs him in the greatest affairs of State!
'Tis true, that service to God and our Redeemer in this present state, is necessary in its own kind, highly acceptable to God, and justly much valued by good Men. And we ought our selves willingly to submit to serve God in a meaner capacity in this World, while it is his pleasure we shall do so, especially if God should have given any signification of his mind, concerning our abode in the Flesh, some longer time, as 'tis likely he had done to the Apostle Paul, Phil. 1.24. because he says, he was confident, and did know that so it should be, ver. 25. we should be abundantly satisfied with it, as he was. But to suppose an abode here, to be simply, and universally more eligible, is very groundless, and unreasonable. And were a like case, as if a person of very extraordinary abilities and accomplishments, ⟨p. 159⟩because he was useeful in some obscure Country Village, is to be looked upon as lost, because his Prince, being informed of his great worth, calls him up to his Court, and finding him every way fit, employs him in the greatest affairs of State!