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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.
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?
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 todye) I shall be gathered to the Devil and his Angels, or to Christ and his Angele? 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?
I answer, You may know it by four things.
First, If you are righteous, then you shall be gathered to Christ at death, for the righteous shall go into everlasting life? Heaven is entailed upon righteous men by righteousness I mean the imputed righteousness, and the imparted righteousness of Jesus Christ; I wave the explication of them, because time will not give leave. Know you not (saith the Apostle) that no unrighteous man shall inherit the Kingdom of God? Damnation is entailed upon unrighteous men.
First, If you are righteous, then you shall be gathered to Christ at death, for the righteous shall go into everlasting life? Heaven is entailed upon righteous men by righteousness I mean the imputed righteousness, and the imparted righteousnesse of Jesus Christ; I wave the explication of them, because time will not give leave. Know you not (saith the Apostle) that no unrighteous man shall inherit the Kingdom of God? Damnation is entailed upon unrighteous men.