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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.
First, by their prayers, to pray down a blessing on the place where they come.
Secondly, they come as a blessing by their holy life and conversation, that is a lodestone to draw others to holiness.
Secondly, they come as a blessing by their holy life and conversation, that is a loadstone to draw others to holiness.
Thirdly, they come as a blessing by their holy advise and counsel that they give to the place where they come.
Nay fourthly, their very presence is a blessing; as long as Lot was in Sodom, Sodom could not be destroyed; so long as Paul was in the ship, the three hundred could not be drowned. So that the godly come as a blessing wherever they are scattered; but the wicked are as chaff scattered by the wind, and they are scattered as the dust of the earth: You know when the dust is scattered, it gets into mens eyes and blinds them, and falls upon their clothes and sullies and defiles them; so the wicked, where-ever they are scattered, they defile the place where they are scattered. The godly are as planets, that wander and move from one part of heaven to another, carrying light to the world.