A47613:355
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
O therefore be quieted, consider what you have heard what death is to a Believer.
Shall not our Friend go to rest? Alas he hath laboured hard, and O how sweet is this rest to him. When a ⟨p. 77⟩man hath worked hard all day and wearied himself, how willing is he to go to bed at night? Alas he is but gone to sleep, to take sweet and quiet rest until the Morning.
2. Shall not we be willing he should have enlargement to be freed out of Prison. Alas our Souls are as it were but in Prison whilst we dwell here below in these Houses of Clay; Death as a Porter opens a door into that Glorious Palace above He is but gone home to his Fathers House, and how earnest was he to depart, that ⟨p. 78⟩he might be present with the Lord.
2. Shall not we be willing he should have inlargement to be freed out of Prison. Alas our Souls are as it were but in Prison whilst we dwell here below in these Houses of Clay; Death as a Porter opens a door into that Glorious Palace above He is but gone home to his Fathers House, and how earnest was he to depart, that ⟨p. 78⟩he might be present with the Lord.