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A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of…
A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Bread Street, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in Southwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.A sermon on the much lamented death of that reverend and worthy Servant of Christ Mr. Richard Adams, M.A. sometime fellow of Brazen-Nose Colledge in Oxford, afterwards, minister of St. Mildred Breadstreet, London, more lately, pastor of a congregation in SOuthwark, who deceased Febr. 7th, 1697/8 preached, February the 20th, 1698 / by John Howe.
London: printed by S. Bridge for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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.
IF you should have no other Subject for your present Consideration, than only; That one in your Neighbourhood is Lately Dead; Even that it self would deserve your very serious Thoughts. ⟨p. 2⟩The Translation of Humane Souls from World to World, and out of this Present, into their Eternal State, is no light Matter; and does claim and challenge more serious Thoughts, than it is commonly wont to find and meet with. Nor does the commonness of such an occasion, at all excuse the slightness of Mens Thoughts upon it; but rather aggravate it unspeakably more. That which we find to be so common and universal a Case, we may be sure will shortly be our own: And as it is now matter of Discourse with us, that such a one is Dead, we shall ere it be long, according as we have been more or less regarded in the World, be a like Subject of Discourse to others.
But it is a greater Thing, when it can be said, a Good Man is gone; there is a more special Remark to be put upon the Decease of such a one, Mark the perfect Man, and behold the Upright, the […] of that Man is Peace, as Psalm 37.37. There is that Agreement between his Way and his End, they are so much of a Piece, and do so exactly Correspond; a course transacted in a constant Serenity ⟨p. 3⟩and Peace, meeting at length with Peace as the End of it; An even course, still, uniform, self-agreeable, ever equal to, and like it self, ending at last in Peace: Mark this! how he goes off, mark such a Life so ending!
But it is a greater Thing, when it can be said, a Good Man is gone; there is a more special Remark to be put upon the Decease of such a one, Mark the perfect Man, and behold the Vpright, the 〈…〉 of that Man is Peace, as Psalm 37.37. There is that Agreement between his Way and his End, they are so much of a Piece, and do so exactly Correspond; a course transacted in a constant Serenity