A44679:52
A funeral sermon for that faithful and laborious servant of Christ Mr. Richard Fairclough…
A funeral sermon for that faithful and laborious servant of Christ Mr. Richard Fairclough (who deceased July 4, 1682 in the sixty first year of his age) by John Howe.
London: printed for John Dunton, 1682
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.
II. The Acceptance and Reward which such a Servant finds above. His Acceptance is expressed in the same words, (as was said) which have generally given us his Character, not only showing what he was, and did, but that his Lord esteemed, and passes an approving judgment of him (as it was not to be doubted he would) accordingly.
II. The Acceptance and Reward which such a Servant finds above. His Acceptance is exprest in the same words, (as was said) which have generally given us his Character, not only shewing what he was, and did, but that his Lord esteem'd, and passes an approving judgment of him (as it was not to be doutbed he would) accordingly.
Concerning this Judgment we are to note, both what it supposes, and what it includes.
It supposes both an account taken how this Servant demeaned himself, and a Rule according whereto the matters to be accounted for, were to be examined and judged of.
It supposes both an account taken how this Servant demean'd himself, and a Rule according whereto the matters to be accounted for, were to be examin'd and judg'd of.