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The churches triumph over death opened in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at…The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at…
The churches triumph over death opened in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and virtuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and vertuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...
London: printed by Tho. Ratcliffe for John Baker, 1662
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.
3. They shall Awake, like a man out of sleep refreshed and comforted, Psal. 17. 15.
4. They shall sing, as victors over the grave, never to return thither more. So we have here, 1. The sad condition of the Church. 2. The great mercy and power of God to them in that condition.
Their sad condition in the former of these two gradations.
1. They are dead men, in a condition of death, their whole life a conflict with mortality. And though this be not a calamity peculiar to them, (for death feedeth equally upon all) and though there be a great alleviation in their being Mortui tui, The Lords dead men; yet in some respects we find the weight of mortality on the Churches side. Wicked men meet many times with an [Greek or Hebrew], live in pleasure, and then die in ease, spend their days in wealth and jollity, in vanity and folly, and go suddenly to the grave, die only once and together, Job 21. 13. whereas holy men have complained of dying daily,