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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.
2. Consider how much of life there is in and about this little World of ours. When, upon one single Mole-Hill, you see the brisk motions and efforts of so many hundred Lives, you have reason to apprehend there is a great deal of Vitality about this little spot of Earth.
3. Consider and Collect how probable it is, that as we go higher and higher, the nobler and finer parts of Gods Creation, must be much more replenished with a nobler and more excellent sort of life. It is very unreasonable to think, that this Clod of Earth should be ⟨p. 28⟩so full of Life and that in higher and purer Regions, there should not be a richer plenitude of life, or of such Inhabitants as live nobler and more excellent Lives than we And
4. For ought we know, death never reaches higher than this earth of ours, and what is in a nearer vicinity to it; And that, therefore, there be vast and ample Regions, incomparably beyond the range of our Eye, or Thought, where now, no Death ever comes; after the detrusion of the first revolters, from those bright Regions. When we are told, Eph. 4. 10. our Lord Jesus Christ is ascended far above all heavens, as it were a fond attempt to pretend to count them so it were rash Philosophizing, to go about to describe them. But can we suppose them spacious, wild Wastes? Or not suppose them replenished with numberless numbers of excellent Creatures that in their confirmed state, fear no Death. And continually pay a willing, joyful Homage to their Great Preserver. For every knee must bow to him, of things in heaven,