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A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late…
A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late wife of the Reverend Mr. George Hamond, minister of the Gospel in London. By John Howe, minister of the same Gospel.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
Upon the whole, I cannot, indeed, conceive, that since Death is often taken, and that most reasonably, in so great a latitude, as to admit of comprehending this sense; and since, in these latter verses, the Apostle is speaking of a final deliverance from it, as the special privilege of such as are in union with Christ, not of what is common to all men, but that victory over death in this respect, as it imports aversion from God, or indisposition towards him, must be within his meaning, and that he was far from confining it to bodily death only, or from intending, in reference to the Soul, the mere natural immortality of that alone. But that Death in its utmost latitude was, now, in reference to this sort of men, whom his present discourse intends, to be entirely swallowed up in victory. Or in a perfect plenitude of victorious life, as 2 Cor. 5. 4.
Upon the whole, I cannot, indeed, conceive, that since Death is often taken, and that most reasonably, in so great a latitude, as to admit of comprehending this sense; and since, in these latter verses, the Apostle is speaking of a final deliverance from it, as the special priviledge of such as are in union with Christ, not of what is common to all men, but that victory over death in this respect, as it imports aversion from God, or indisposition towards him, must be within his meaning, and that he was far from confining it to bodily death only, or from intending, in reference to the Soul, the meer natural immortality of that alone. But that Death in its utmost latitude was, now, in reference to this sort of men, whom his present discourse intends, to be entirely swallow'd up in victory. Or in a perfect plenitude of victorious life, as 2 Cor. 5. 4.
So much, which was more requisite to be insisted on, being clear, we shall less need to enlarge upon what follows. As, that,
So much, which was more requisite to be insisted on, being clear, we shall less need to inlarge upon what follows. As, that,