A79010:5
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.
To the READER.
AS the Words of Dying Men are remarkable, so the words spoken of at the Funerals of dead Ministers are most observable. Now Reader, this Sermon claims thy serious perusal upon both these accounts; for as the Minister whose funeral he preached was dead, so the minister who preached it was civilly dying; for it was the last Sermon but one that the Reverend Author of this Sermon preached. Thus two Lights were put out together, although in a different manner; the one, his ⟨image 4⟩⟨image 4⟩[…] ⟨image 5⟩light (as to us) is put under a clod of earth, and the other is put under a Bushel.
AS the Words of Dying Men are remarkable, so the words spoken of at the Funerals of dead Ministers are most observable. Now Reader, this Sermon claims thy serious perusal upon both these accompts; for as the Minister whose funeral he preached was dead, so the minister who preached it was civilly dying; for it was the last Sermon but one that the Reverend Author of this Sermon preach'd. Thus two Lights were put out together, although in a different manner; the one, his ⟨image 4⟩⟨image 4⟩〈…〉 ⟨image 5⟩