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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
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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.
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 drown'd. So that the godly come as a blessing whereever they are scattered; but the wicked are as chaffe 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 cloaths and fullies 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.
Secondly, as the wicked are scattered whise they live, so when they dye, they are gathered, it is true; but how? not to God, and Christ, and his Angels, but they are gathered to the devil, and his Angels, and to damned spirits: not as bundles of wheat into the barn of heaven, but as bundles of tares to be burned for ever in everlasting fire.
Secondly, as the wicked are scattered whise they live, so when they dye, they are gathered, it is true; but how? not to God, and Christ, and his Angels, but they are gathered to the divel, and his Angels, and to damned spirits: not as bundles of wheat into the barn of heaven, but as bundles of tares to be burned for ever in everlasting fire.