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Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17,…
Three choice and profitable sermons upon several texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is showed, the Lords sovereignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...Three choice and profitable sermons upon severall texts of Scripture viz. Jer. 30. 17, John 14. 3, Heb. 8. 5 : the first of them being the last sermon which he preached at the court of election at Boston, the second was the last which he preached on the Lords-Day, the third was the last which he preached on his weekly-lecture-day : wherein (beside many other excellent and seasonable truths) is shewed, the Lords soveraignty over, and care for his church and people, in order to both their militant and triumphant condition, and their fidelity and good affection towards himself / by that reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Norton ...
printed by S.G. and M.I. for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, 1664
Sermon 2: THE BELIEVERS CONSOLATION, In the Remembrance of his Heavenly Mansion prepared for him…
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Instruction 3. The death of the Believer, it is a reception of the Soul by Christ Jesus. Christ receiving of our Souls at Death, is an encouragement to strengthen us against the fear of Death. Are you afraid of going to your Mansion house? are you afraid of going to Christ? Mark what the Apostle saith, Phil. 1.23. I desire to depart, and to be with Christ. The Greek word is a Mariners Phrase, and signifies as much as to set sail from the shore: I desire my time were come to be loosed; that I might go to my Mansion. There are three Cords or Bonds that do Entangle us, the loosing from which doth sweeten Death to us: 1. The Bond of the Cross; I desire to be dissolved, and loosed from the afflictions and miseries of this present life: This is in it's place a lawful thing to desire in Gods time. 2. There is a Bond of Corruption, the body of Death; this I desire to be loosed from: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this Death! Rom. 7.24. There are pangs in the Best; But if you have the new man in you, you cannot bear them: There is Vain-glory there, and there is Impatience there, and there is Envy there, and Unspiritualness, which the Believer cannot ⟨p. 22⟩bear; I desire therefore to be loosed from the Body. It is said of one,* that he would bind a dead Corpse to a living man, and so he would torture them. This new man is boudn to a dead Corps: there is no part of the Understanding, Will, or Affections, throughout the whole man, but this dead Corpse is there. 3. There is the Cord of our absence from Christ: that he expresseth, as if it did in an especial manner move with him to be with Christ, which is the best of all. Simeon speaking of death, Lord, now lettest thou thy Servant depart in peace, Luk. 2.29. as if he should say, Give me my dismission (as we use to speak, from one Church to another: so here) from a Society Militant, to a Society Triumphant: So you see here he calls it but a dismission; it came to pass when the time was come that he should be received up, Luk. 9.51. relating to his death: if you did but think that this were the great business when you dye, namely, the receiving of your Souls, you would not be troubled: you cannot give up your Souls into better hands. […] 5.24. you shall there find it is called a passage from one Room to another, he is passed from death to life: