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Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long…
Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long since preached / by the late Reverend Dr. Thomas Manton ... And now occasionally published on the much lamented death of Mrs. Ann Terry, who died the 9th of November, 1693. With a short account of some passages of her life, and papers left under her own hand.Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long since preach'd / by the late Reverand Dr. Thomas Manton ... And now occasionally published on the much lamented death of Mrs. Ann Terry, who died the 9th of November, 1693. With a short account of some passages of her life, and papers left under her own hand.
London: printed by J.D. for Jonathon Robinson, 1694
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.
The Lamb's Blood can wash the ⟨p. 88⟩foulest Sinner white, therefore are they brought before the Throne of God, and serve him Day and Night in his Temple; and he that sitteth on the Throne shall dwell among them: they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the Sun light on them, nor the Heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living Fountains of Water: and God shall wipe away all Tears from their Eyes.
O what blessed Employment are the Saints engaged in, in serving God Day and Night in his Temple, where the everlasting JEHOVAH, that sitteth on the Throne, shall eternally dwell among them: The Bliss of these Heavenly Inhabitants is inconceivable. Well may the Apostle say, Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, what God hath laid up for them that love him. It is exceedingly above what we can think, or imagine, or conceive: Who can tell what it is continually to enjoy the comfortable Presence of the great God and the Lamb? When God's People have had but some Glimpse of his Favour and Friendship, and some Hopes of dwelling with him, they have impatiently longed for a Dissolution: They count this World as a Prison in which they are separated from ⟨p. 89⟩their God, their Christ, and the Holy Angels, which will be their everlasting Companions.
O what blessed Imployment are the Saints ingaged in, in serving God Day and Night in his Temple, where the everlasting JEHOVAH, that sitteth on the Throne, shall eternally dwell among them: The Bliss of these Heavenly Inhabitants is inconceivable. Well may the Apostle say, Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, what God hath laid up for them that love him. It is exceedingly above what we can think, or imagine, or conceive: Who can tell what it is continually to injoy the comfortable Presence of the great God and the Lamb? When God's People have had but some Glimpse of his Favour and Friendship, and some Hopes of dwelling with him, they have impatiently longed for a Dissolution: They count this World as a Prison in which they are separated from