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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.
O the transports of Joy that do now most rationally result from this state of the Case! when there is nothing left, lying between the dislodging Soul, and the glorious unseen World, but only the dark passage of Death; and that so little formidable; considering who hath the Keys of the one, and the other. How reasonable is it upon the account of somewhat common herein, to the Redeemer, and the Redeemed, (although' every thing ⟨p. 185⟩be not) to take up the following words, that so plainly belong to this very case. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Sheol, or Hades; thou wilt not forsake, or abandon it in that wide World, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of Life; the path that leads unto that presence of thine, where is fullness of Joy; and to those pleasures which are at thy right hand; or in thy power, and which are for evermore; and shall never admit either of end, or diminution, Psal. 16.9, 10, 11.
O the transports of Joy that do now most rationally result from this state of the Case! when there is nothing left, lying between the dislodging Soul, and the glorious unseen World, but only the dark passage of Death; and that so little formidable; considering who hath the Keys of the one, and the other. How reasonable is it upon the account of somewhat common herein, to the Redeemer, and the Redeemed, (altho' every thing ⟨p. 185⟩be not) to take up the following words, that so plainly belong to this very case. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoyceth; my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Sheol, or Hades; thou wilt not forsake, or abandon it in that wide World, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of Life; the path that leads unto that presence of thine, where is fulness of Joy; and to those pleasures which are at thy right hand; or in thy power, and which are for evermore; and shall never admit either of end, or diminution, Psal. 16.9, 10, 11.