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The righteous mans death lamented. A sermon preached at St. Austins, London, Aug.23. 1662…
The righteous mans death lamented. A sermon preached at St. Austins, London, Aug.23. 1662 at the funeral of that eminent servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Simeon Ash late minister of the gospel there. By Edmund Calamy, B.D.
London : s.n., printed in the year 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I answer, it is true, the unrighteous are scattered in this life, and gathered by death as well as the righteous; but with a great deal of difference.
First, the wicked are scattered in this life, but they are scattered from God; but the godly are scattered for God and for a good conscience many times, as they as Jerusalem were scattered: The godly are scattered from the glorious presence of God in heaven; but the wicked are scattered from the gracious presence of God on earth. Again the scattering of the wicked is a curse to them, and it is threatened as a curse, Levit. 26.32. I will scatter you among the heathen, and draw out my sword after you; and wherever the wicked come, in what part soever of the world the wicked are scattered, they bring the curse of God with them, and they bring the judgments of God on Towns or Cities where they are, as plague, famine, and sword, and all miseries. But the godly, when they are scattered, they are scattered as a blessing; into what ⟨p. 9⟩Country or Town soever they come, they come as a blessing, they come like a ship laden with corn, to a Town ready to perish with famine; they come as a blessing four ways.
First, the wicked are scattered in this life, but they are scattered from God; but the godly are scattered for God and for a good conscience many times, as they as Jerusalem were scattered: The godly are scattered from the glorious presence of God in heaven; but the wicked are scattered from the gracious presence of God on earth. Again the scattering of the wicked is a curse to them, and it is threatned as a curse, Levit. 26.32. I will scatter you among the heathen, and draw out my sword after you; and wherever the wicked come, in what part soever of the world the wicked are scattered, they bring the curse of God with them, and they bring the judgments of God on Towns or Cities where they are, as plauge, famine, and sword, and all miseries. But the godly, when they are scattered, they are scattered as a blessing; into what