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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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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.
Now, if the righteous perish as well as others, and if their perishing be nothing but a gathering to God and Christ; then,
First, learn hence the preciousness of every righteous man; the great God will not gather things of no value; ⟨p. 10⟩great men do not use to gather chaff and straw; and therefore, when God saith of Josiah, I will gather thee to thy Fathers, it was a sign he was a precious pearl worth the gathering, and of a high value and account in the sight of God: and so is every true child of God; right dear and precious are they in the sight of God, both living and dying; they are bought with a great price: not with gold and silver, and other corruptible things, but they are bought with the precious blood of the Son of God: They are as precious to God as the apple of his eye; so precious that be hath given Christ for them and to them: so precious that he called them his Jewels, his peculiar treasure, Jedidiahs, and therefore God will not suffer them to perish, but gather them to himself before the evil day come, as the husbandman gathers in the corn before the beasts go out into the field.
First, learn hence the preciousness of every righteous man; the great God will not gather things of no value; ⟨p. 10⟩great men do not use to gather chaffe and straw; and therefore, when God saith of Josiah, I will gather thee to thy Fathers, it was a sign he was a precious pearl worth the gathering, and of a high value and account in the sight of God: and so is every true child of God; right dear and precious are they in the sight of God, both living and dying; they are bought with a great price: not with gold and silver, and other corruptible things, but they are bought with the precious blood of the Son of God: They are as precious to God as the apple of his eye; so precious that be hath given Christ for them and to them: so precious that he called them his Jewels, his peculiar treasure, Jedidiahs, and therefore God will not suffer them to perish, but gather them to himself before the evil day come, as the husbandman gathers in the corn before the beasts go out into the field.