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A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr.…
A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physic, who died Nov. 24. 1689 / by John Howe ...A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. 1689 / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1690
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.
3. How far we may understand, or may reasonably expect his compassion to influence him in such cases.
4. I shall show that however the release be wrought, it is done very mercifully towards them that belong peculiarly to God. And so make use of all.
4. I shall shew that however the release be wrought, it is done very mercifully towards them that belong peculiarly to God. And so make use of all.
1. Somewhat briefly as to that first query, What hand it is supposable the Devil may have in the afflictions of men, and more particularly of them that belong to God; as this woman being a Daughter of Abraham was to be considered, as one within the compass of Gods Covenant, and not improbably as one, that, in the strictest sense, was in Covenant with God.
1. It is plain in the Text, the Devil had a direct hand in her distemper, called a Spirit of infirmity. There were more evident, and more frequent instances of this kind in that time, the Devil then setting himself more openly to contend against the incarnate Son of God, upon his more open appearance to rescue and recover an Apostate World from under his Dominion and Tyranny. But as to more ordinary cases we may further consider,