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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.
2. This awaking makes a great difference between the Resurrection of the godly and the wicked: the one riseth refreshed, as sleep repaireth the ⟨p. 21⟩decays of Nature, so that a man riseth vigorous and recruited; therefore the time of the Resurrection is called the time of refreshing, and of restitution of all things, Acts 3. 19, 21. The other riseth affrighted, as a man awakened with a Thunder-clap, or whose house is in a flame about him; the one awakes to his work, the other to his Judgement; it is morning and everlasting day to the one, it is horror and darkness to the other; and therefore it is added:
2. This awaking makes a great difference between the Resurrection of the godly and the wicked: the one riseth refreshed, as sleep repaireth the ⟨p. 21⟩decays of Nature, so that a man riseth vigorous and recruited; therefore the time of the Resurrection is called the time of refreshing, and of restitution of all things, Acts 3. 19, 21. The other riseth affrighted, as a man awakened with a Thunder-clap, or whose house is in a flame about him; the one awakes to his work, the other to his Judgement; it is morning and everlasting day to the one, it is horrour and darkness to the other; and therefore it is added:
4. Cantate, when they awake they shall sing: as David when he awaked, calls on his Lute and Harp to awake with him, Psal. 57. 8. In their graves, at Babylon, they hung their Harps on the Willows, no music then, Psal. 137. 3. but they go out of their graves, as Israel out of the Red Sea, with Victory and Triumph over Death and Hell, and so shall sing the Song of Moses and the Lamb. Dust and Ashes, in the Scripture phrase, are ceremonies of mourning,