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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.
Thus you have some Account of the Object, Privative, and positive, What is to be left, and Whom we are to come to; A sinful mortal Body to be left with a vain and wicked World; And a Glorious Lord to be approached, so as to be with him, in actual, and complacential, and eternal communion; to be with him, not as Spectators only, but Partakers of that Glory wherein he is. Then
2. We are to consider the temper and disposition it self, of serious Christians, and of the faithful Ministers of Christ especially, in reference to this State of the Objects. And it is made up of Two Things, 1st. Desire, and 2d. Estimation, or Judgment, that is the measure of the former, and according whereto that desire is directed.
1. This Desire is [Greek or Hebrew], intense desire, earnest desire, the fervour of desire. That is, As to my self, and as to ⟨p. 18⟩any concern of mine, I do most earnestly desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, [Greek or Hebrew] signifies not less than that, And then
1. This Desire is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, intense desire, earnest desire, the fervour of desire. That is, As to my self, and as to ⟨p. 18⟩any concern of mine, I do most earnestly desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies not less than that, And then