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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.
But as to a future ruin, which he finally aims to involve men in, with himself, he hath not faster hold of any, than those that have learnt to ridicule every thing of this kind, and who have put so much Sadducism into their Creed (consisting of so many negatives, or things they believe not, that they scarce leave enough positive to admit that name) as to think there is no such creature: perhaps as being conscious there can be no worse than themselves. But how near is he to them that think him out of the Universe!
But as to a future ruine, which he finally aims to involve men in, with himself, he hath not faster hold of any, than those that have learnt to ridicule every thing of this kind, and who have put so much Sadducism into their Creed (consisting of so many negatives, or things they believe not, that they scarce leave enough positive to admit that name) as to think there is no such creature: perhaps as being conscious there can be no worse than themselves. But how near is he to them that think him out of the Universe!
3. Since it is possible the Devil may bind even those that belong to God, with some kind of bodily affliction or other; it is the more to be apprehended, how much worse bonds they are, in which he binds those that do not belong to him. Oh! that you would be serious here! How many such sad cases are there, amongst even them, as may be feared, that are called Christians, concerning which it may be said, here is a soul that Satan hath bound, not eighteen, but, it may be, thirty, forty, fifty years! Oh! when shall this soul be released, that Satan hath so long bound!
3. Since it is possible the Devil may bind even those that belong to God, with some kind of bodily affliction or other; it is the more to be apprehended, how much worse bonds they are, in which he binds those that do not belong to him. Oh! that you would be serious here! How many such sad cases are there, amongst even them, as may be feared, that are called Christians, concerning which it may be said, here is a soul that Satan hath bound, not eighteen, but, it may be, thirty, forty, fifty years! Oh! when shall this soul be releast, that Satan hath so long bound!