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Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who…
Death unstung a sermon preached at the funeral of Thomas Mowsley, an apothecary, who died July, 1669 : with a brief narrative of his life and death : also the manner of Gods dealings with him before and after his conversion : drawn up by his own hand and published / by James Janeway ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1669
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.
4. An other quality of this Person, which is like to make such a blessed end, is this, he is one that is dead to the World. Faith hath discovered a better Country to him, it hath spied that new Jerusalem, and those blessed Regions: and now the Soul thinks the World scarce worthy of a serious thought, or look; he takes himself to be a kind of Prisoner here, and the whole World but a Dungeon, if compared with that state of liberty and glory; he now joins with David, and says, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and there is none upon Earth that I can desire beside thee. This, is the Man that is like to be a gainer by Death; he who contemns Earth, and makes Heaven his choice, shall never find himself a loser.
4. An other quality of this Person, which is like to make such a blessed end, is this, he is one that is dead to the World. Faith hath discovered a better Country to him, it hath spyed that new Jerusalem, and those blessed Regions: and now the Soul thinks the World scarce worthy of a serious thought, or look; he takes himself to be a kind of Prisoner here, and the whole World but a Dungeon, if compared with that state of liberty and glory; he now joyns with David, and says, Whom have I in Heaven but thee, and there is none upon Earth that I can desire beside thee. This, is the Man that is like to be a gainer by Death; he who contemns Earth, and makes Heaven his choice, shall never finde himself a loser.
5. Another property of the Man which shall be blessed at Death, is this, he is one, that takes Christ for life and happiness. Time was indeed, he was of ⟨p. 20⟩an other mind, sin was his delight, and none so despicable in his Eye, as Christ; but God, in free and rich grace, hath taken away the Scales from his Eyes, and healed him of his miserable blindness, and let him see such a loveliness in the Lord Christ, as that now he is able to say, none but Christ, none but Christ; He is altogether lovely. He is now quite out of love with himself, neither his righteousness, nor any thing is lovely now, but Christ; and will not that Soul be blessed, when it comes to have its desires accomplished? he that counts nothing worth the having, except Christ, and for Christ, can't be miserable, when he is lodged safe in his embraces.