A47613:267
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for Ben Harris, 1676
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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.
2. When you read of soul as that which rejoiceth in God, delights in God, longs and thirsts after God, lives and feeds upon God and Christ, and united to and hath communion with God, clothed and adorned with the holy Spirit; it always holds forth the glorious spirit or soul of man: let me only direct you to one or two Scriptures upon this account, Luke 1. 46. My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit rejoiceth in God my Saviour, Psal. 94. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul. Psal. 42. 1, 2. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God; my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before him. Psal. 73. 26. My heart and my flesh faileth me, but God is the strength of my soul, and my portion for ever.
2. When you read of soul as that which rejoyceth in God, delights in God, longs and thirsts after God, lives and feeds upon God and Christ, and united to and hath communion with God, cloathed and adorned with the holy Spirit; it alwayes holds forth the glorious spirit or soul of man: let me onely direct you to one or two Scriptures upon this account, Luke 1. 46. My soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit rejoyceth in God my Saviour, Psal. 94. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul. Psal. 42. 1, 2. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God; my soul thirsteth for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before him. Psal. 73. 26. My heart and my flesh faileth me, but God is the strength of my soul, and my portion for ever.