The righteous mans death lamented. A sermon preached at St. Austins, London, Aug.23. 1662…

2dly, The righteous are scattered in the world one from another, and that two ways: 1. They are scattered by their different habitations; for the godly are forced to separate one from another, as Lot from Abraham. 2. They are scattered one from another by the cruel persecution of wicked men; and therefore you read Acts 8. that at that time when there was a persecution against the Church at Jerusalem, that they were all scattered abroad.

3dly, The godly are scattered in this life from the glorious presence of God in Heaven; indeed they are never scattered from the gracious presence of God, but sometimes they are scattered from the comforting presence of God; and as long as we live in this World, we shall be scattered from the glorious presence of God; for while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

3dly, The godly are scattered in this life from the glorious presence of God in Heaven; indeed they are never sattered from the gracious presence of God, but sometimes they are scattered from the comforting presence of God; and as long as we live in this World, we shall be scattered from the glorious presence of God; for while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Secondly, This implies a bringing of God's people out of this scattered condition; it is a gathering of the righteous out of this world into another, from a sinful persecuted world, into a sinless glorious world, from diversity of dwellings on earth, to dwell altogether in one heaven; it is a gathering out of the reach of men and devils: a gathering them not only to the gracious, but to the glorious presence of God and Christ, and to the souls of just ⟨p. 7⟩