A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late…

This great saying may have had some partial and gradual accomplishment, within the current of time, when in reference to a People more specially related to God, and in some more notable delinquency, and defection from him, he may have given a just, but limited, Commission to Death, to make great ravage and destructions among them, so that it hath even rode in Triumph, made an huge Carnage, strewed their Country with Carcasses, turned their rich Land, more enriched with humane blood, into an ⟨p. 4⟩Akeldama; and thereupon, but into a place of Sepulture, and of Graves; And yet, when it hath gone as far as his designed limits, and executed all his pleasure, he may have stopped it in its Career, and said, hither thou shalt come and no further: Now, cease, and give over: (as Hos. 13. 14.) and so may have ransomed the residue from the Power of the Grave, and been the destruction of their Destroyers, Plaguing them who were their plagues. This in the next intention hereof may respect the People of the Jews, who being returned from their (now foreseen) Captivity, might in the Prophetic style, be spoken of as a People risen from the Dead, and newly sprung up out of the Grave; but might have a further reference to the yet-future state of the Christian Church, as Isa 25. 6, 7, 8. seems to carry it; when so great a Death as hath long been upon it, as well as the rest of the World, it may be hoped shall be swallowed up in a very glorious victory!

This great saying may have had some partial and gradual accomplishment, within the current of time, when in reference to a People more specially related to God, and in some more notable delinquency, and defection from him, he may have given a just, but limited, Commission to Death, to make great ravage and destructions among them, so that it hath even rode in Triumph, made an huge Carnage, strow'd their Countrey with Carkasses, turn'd their rich Land, more enrich't with humane bloud, into an ⟨p. 4⟩Akeldama; and thereupon, but into a place of Sepulture, and of Graves; And yet, when it hath gone as far as his designed limits, and executed all his pleasure, he may have stopt it in its Career, and said, hither thou shalt come and no further: Now, cease, and give over: (as