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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.
The third Use is of Consolation to all the people of God in reference to evil times that are coming upon us, or to the evil of times. Whatever befalls a Child of God in this life, though he be scattered by wicked men, from England into other Foreign Countries, though he wander up and down in Deserts and Wildernesses, though he be scattered from house to prison, yet there will be a gathering time shortly, there will a time come when all the Saints shall be gathered to Christ, and to one another, never to part any more. The death of Gods people is not a perishing, but a gathering: comfort your selves therefore with these words, against the fear of death: look upon death as a gathering, as a gathering to Christ: You are here as Daniel in the Lyons Den, as Jeremiah in the Dungeon: yet there will come a gathering, and if you dye in a good cause, you shall not perish, but be gathered to Christ, and to his Saints and Angels.
The third Use is of Consolation to all the people of God in reference to evil times that are coming upon us, or to the evil of times. Whatever befalls a Child of God in this life, though he be scattered by wicked men, from England into other Forreign Countreys, though he wander up and down in Desarts and Wildernesses, though he be scattered from house to prison, yet there will be a gathering time shortly, there will a time come when all the Saints shall be gathered to Christ, and to one another, never to part any more. The death of Gods people is not a perishing, but a gathering: comfort your selves therefore with these words, against the fear of death: look upon death as a gathering, as a gathering to Christ: You are here as Daniel in the Lyons Den, as Jeremiah in the Dungeon: yet there will come a gathering, and if you dye in a good cause, you shall not perish, but be gathered to Christ, and to his Saints and Angels.
But you will say, If I were sure when I dye, that I should be gathered to Christ, to live for ever with him, this would be matter of great consolation to me, but you told me, the wicked are gathered by death as well as the godly, how shall I know whether (when I come tody) I shall be gathered to the Devil and his Angels, or to Christ and his Angel? How shall I know whether I shall be gathered at death as a bundle of tares to be burned in Hell, or as a bundle of wheat to be carried up into the Burn of Heaven?