Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who…

Conv. I must be but very brief here, ⟨p. 137⟩for I have much to say about other things, but I shall, as the Lord shall enable me, satisfy you in this, as I told you before; when the burden of my sin first came upon me, that then, and likewise in the six years of my convictions, I was fully convinced of the necessity of living a holy life, and of the Beauty of Holiness, and that without it, there would be no salvation; for without Holiness none shall see the Lord: And upon this account I also earnestly besought the Lord by Prayer, and Hearing, and reading good Books, which the Lord did mightily incline my heart to do, and so every day, I did more and more desire Holiness, and did earnestly thirst after the image of God to be renewed upon my heart, so that in short I found no rest any way but what I got by living holily and abstaining from sin, and as my weak Physicians, I mean my Prayers, Hearing, Reading, Meditation, Vows, Resolutions, &c. I say, as these was able to apply comfort to me, so I had it, and no longer, being ignorant of the life of Faith in Christ, and truly they proved very bad comforters, and as I told you, they wanted Christs blood to procure acceptation in the eyes of a pure and holy God, which will regard them with favour, ⟨p. 138⟩no otherwise than as they are presented to him sprinkled with the blood of his Son.

Conv. I must be but very brief here, ⟨p. 137⟩for I have much to say about other things, but I shall, as the Lord shall enable me, satisfie you in this, as I told you before; when the burthen of my sin first came upon me, that then, and likewise in the six years of my convictions, I was fully convinced of the necessity of living a holy life, and of the Beauty of Holiness, and that without it, there would be no salvation; for without Holiness none shall see the Lord: And upon this account I also earnestly besought the Lord by Prayer, and Hearing, and reading good Books, which the Lord did mightily incline my heart to do, and so every day, I did more and more desire Holiness, and did earnestly thirst after the image of God to be renewed upon my heart, so that in short I found no rest any way but what I got by living holily and abstaining from sin, and as my weak Physitians, I mean my Prayers, Hearing, Reading, Meditation, Vows, Resolutions, &c. I say, as these was able to apply comfort to me, so I had it, and no longer, being ignorant of the life of Faith in Christ, and truly they proved very bad comforters, and as I told you, they wanted Christs blood to procure acceptation in the eyes of a pure and holy God, which will regard them with favour,