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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.
How glorious will the Triumphs of this Victory be over the Grand Apostate. And how unsupposeable is it, that he should have occasion left him to glory in an Eternal Conquest! And
2. It is not a light thing to him whose nature is Love, That without this final victory the felicity of the Redeemed should never be fully accomplished. Ante-cedently to the Gospel-Revelation, it would seem more agreeable to the Nature of God that some should be rescued from the Power of Death, than, that all should lye under it for ever. But we to whom that Revelation is vouchsafed, cannot now but think it the most unlikely thing in the World that the design of Almighty Love should finally be defeated, and that such as are in Vital Union with the Redeemer, should either be overcome at last by Death, or remain in an eternal struggle with it. Whence nothing can be conceived in this case, but that as to them, death must be swallowed up in this glorious Everlasting Victory.
2. It is not a light thing to him whose nature is Love, That without this final victory the felicity of the Redeemed should never be fully accomplisht. Ante-cedently to the Gospel-Revelation, it would seem more agreeable to the Nature of God that some should be rescu'd from the Power of Death, than, that all should lye under it for ever. But we to whom that Revelation is vouchsaf't, cannot now but think it the most unlikely thing in the World that the design of Almighty Love should finally be defeated, and that such as are in Vital Union with the Redeemer, should either be overcome at last by Death, or remain in an eternal struggle with it. Whence nothing can be conceived in this case, but that as to them, death must be swallowed up in this glorious Everlasting Victory.
Whereupon how admirable a display will there herein be of sundry the most known Attributes and Excellencies of the Divine Nature, as his Wisdom, Power, Goodness, Holiness, Justice, and Truth, in the whole Conduct, and in this final issue of things! (as might be distinctly shown of each, if we were not within limits.) He at first dealt with them very suitably to their natures, At length he deals with them according to his own. That it may be the Theme of Eternal Contemplation to themselves,