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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.
Do we think 'tis fit for us to rest satisfied, and secure, in such a state? What? satisfied in the midst of Death? such a Death? while we are capable of apprehending at once, the horror, the danger, and the remedibleness of our Case? What will this come to? It can only be Holy, Divine Life that must be Victorious over Death, as the warring, opposite principle: If there be nothing to oppose it, what shall Conquer? Death is in that Case Total, and upon such terms, till Life begin to spring in thy Soul, thou must reckon it likely to be Eternal. Yet let none so mistake as to imagine this Life an Enthusiastical thing, that must discover it self in rapturous, extatical motions, or go for nothing. It perfects our Faculties, therefore destroys them not. And chiefly consists in a rational Judgment, Choice and Love of what is most worthy of us; what is fittest to be done by us, and what is with fullest satisfaction to be enjoyed; with a steadfast, most resolved adherence thereunto.
Do we think 'tis fit for us to rest satisfy'd, and secure, in such a state? What? satisfy'd in the midst of Death? such a Death? while we are capable of apprehending at once, the horror, the danger, and the remedibleness of our Case? What will this come to? It can only be Holy, Divine Life that must be Victorious over Death, as the warring, opposite principle: If there be nothing to oppose it, what shall Conquer? Death is in that Case Total, and upon such termes, till Life begin to spring in thy Soul, thou must reckon it likely to be Eternal. Yet let none so mistake as to imagine this Life an Enthusiastical thing, that must discover it self in rapturous, extatical motions, or go for nothing. It perfects our Faculties, therefore destroyes them not. And chiefly consists in a rational Judgment, Choice and Love of what is most worthy of us; what is fittest to be done by us, and what is with fullest satisfaction to be enjoyed; with a stedfast, most resolved adherence thereunto.
4thly, This saying ought to be Instructive to us, in reference especially to this one thing, i. e. That we abstain from rash Censures of Providence, That God ⟨p. 27⟩