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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.
1. First, He began to •ook Heaven ward betimes▪ he was made to remember his Creator in the days of his youth; his first convictions were at about twelve years old, but they had no abiding impression upon him, the great work was begun to purpose between seventeen and eighteen. I shall be the more brief here, because you have the account more full from his own hand. The change that was wrought upon him did express more of the power of God, and the riches of his grace than ordinary. The Lord made his work upon him very clear and distinct; for he broke in upon his soul like an armed man, and shook him terribly •ve• Hell, and the ••rr•urs of God set themselves ⟨p. 73⟩•n array against him, and the poison of his arrows drank up his spirits, sin did appear in its colour to him •s ugly as the devil, and as dreadful as Hell it self; so that the foundation was laid in very deep hu•••lity. O then how frightful a thing was sin, yea his beloved sin, the sin of gaming was made most loathsome and abominable, so that for that he loathed himself in dust ashes, and looked upon himself as unworthy to tread upon Gods ground, and had not God ordered it so as that the first Sermon he heard after this great conviction was upon that Scripture, 1 Tim. 1.15. he had even fallen into despair, but the thoughts of Gods having mercy upon the chiefest of sinners, did a little support his soul, and gave him hopes of a possibility of being saved.
1. First, He began to •ook Heaven ward betimes▪ he was made to remember his Creatour in the daies of his youth; his first conv•ctions were at about twelve years old, but they had no abiding impression upon him, the great work was begun to purpose between seveneen and eighteen. I shall be the more brief here, because you have the account more full from his own hand. The change that was wrought upon him did express more of the power of God, and the riches of his grace than ordinary. The Lord made his work upon him very clear and distinct; for he broke in upon his soul like an armed man, and shook him terribly ve Hell, and the rrurs of God set themselves