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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
Dedication: TO THE Most deservedly Honoured, AND Truly Honourable, Sir CHARLES HOGHTON AND THE Lady…
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.
The Faith of such things, would surely make a truly Christian Heart, so earnestly press forward, in the expectation ⟨p. 25⟩of the Great things, still to ensue, as to leave it little leisure for retrospection. And this is the source of all our intemperate Sorrow, in such a Case as this, our framing to our selves pleasing suppositions, of being as we were, with such, and such Friends and Relatives about us, as we heretofore enjoyed. As hope of what is future, and desirable, feeds our Joy; so, Memory of good things past, doth our Sorrow. In such a Case as this, which the Apostle here speaks to, the decease of our dear Friends, and Relatives, fallen asleep; we are apt to look back, with a lingering Eye, upon that former state of things: and to say, as he, O mihi preteritos—O that God would recall for me the Years that are gone over—! Or, as in sacred Language, O that I were as in Months past—When the secret of God was ⟨p. 26⟩1upon my Tabernacle. When the Almighty was yet with me; when my Children were about me!
The Faith of such things, would surely make a truly Ch•istian Heart, so earn•stly press forward, in the expectation ⟨p. 25⟩of the Great things, still to ensue, as to leave it little leisure for retrospection. And this is the source of all our intemperate Sorrow, in such a Case as this, our framing to our selves pleasing suppositions, of being as we were, with such, and such Friends and Relatives about us, as we heretofore enjoy'd. As hope of what is future, and desireable, feeds our Joy; so, Memory of good things past, doth our Sorrow. In such a Case as this, which the Apostle here speaks to, the decease of our dear Friends, and Relatives, fall'n asleep; we are apt to look back, with a lingering Eye, upon that former state of things: and to say, as he, O mihi preteritos—O that God would recall for me the Years that are gone over—! Or, as in sacred Language, O that I were as in Months past—When the secret of God was ⟨p. 26⟩