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Deaths advantage
Deaths advantage; opened in a sermon preached at Northampton, at the funeral of Peter Whalley Esq; then mayor of the said town. And now upon the earnest desires of his friends published by Edward Reynolds. D.D.
London: printed by Tho Newcomb for George Thomason, 1657
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3. They rest from the cares, sorrows, snares, toils, temptations of the world; the examples of sinners do not endanger them, the sight of their filthy conversation doth no longer afflict them, the fear of their cruelties and persecutions doth no more trouble them; there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest; there the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor, Job 3.17, 18.
4. They rest from the difficulties of duty it self; those hard conflicts which the heart hath against corruption to keep it self close unto God; for though the spirit be willing, yet the flesh is weak, Matth. 26.41. and though to will be present with us, yet how to perform the thing that is good we find not, Rom. 7.18, 19, 21.
4. They rest from the difficulties of duty it self; those hard conflicts which the heart hath against corruption to keep it self close unto God; for though the spirit be willing, yet the flesh is weak, Matth. 26.41. and though to will be present with us, yet how to perform the thing that is good we finde not, Rom. 7.18, 19, 21.
Lastly, As they are delivered from these past evils, as brands snatched out of the burning, so are they likewise taken away from evils to come, as Lot was from the destruction of Sodom, when the Angel by a merciful violence laid hold on him and brought him forth,