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Elisha his lamentation, upon the sudden translation of Elijah. Opened in a sermon at…Elisha his lamentation, upon the suddain translation of Elijah. Opened in a sermon at…
Elisha his lamentation, upon the sudden translation of Elijah. Opened in a sermon at the funeral of Mr. William Strong, that eminently faithful servant and minister of Christ. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel in Covent Garden.Elisha his lamentation, upon the suddain translation of Elijah. Opened in a sermon at the funeral of Mr. VVilliam Strong, that eminently faithful servant and minister of Christ. By Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. and preacher of the Gospel in Covent Garden.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1654
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.
These words may be called, The Lamentations of Elisha: upon the sudden Translation of that eminent Prophet Elijah: In which you may discern.
These words may be called, The Lamentations of Elisha: upon the suddain Translation of that eminent Prophet Elijah: In which you may discern.
1. His exceeding Grief and Sorrow: He cried out, and until he saw him no more (so Junius & Tremellius Read those words, And he saw him no more) And he rent his clothes in two pieces, as Anciently was the Practise upon the loss, and at the Funerals of dear friends, and of choice and eminent Persons.
1. His exceeding Grief and Sorrow: He cryed out, and until he saw him no more (so Junius & Tremellius Read those words, And he saw him no more) And he rent his clothes in two pieces, as Anciently was the Practise upon the loss, and at the Funerals of dear friends, and of choice and eminent Persons.
2. The causes of this his great grief and sorrow: And they were 1. His own particular loss. The loss of Elijah was unto Elisha as the loss a loving and dear Father, unto a loving and dear Child (my Father! my Father!) As David once about Absalom, my Son, my Son! So Elisha here for Elijah, my Father, my Father! Ah my Father! my Father! Oh I have lost a Father, my Father, such a Father—The Chaldee Interpreter renders it, Rabbi, Rabbi: my Master, my Master: But in the Hebrew it is, Abba, Abba: my Father, my Father!
2. The causes of this his great grief and sorrow: And they were 1. His own particular loss. The loss of Elijah was unto Elisha as the loss a loving and dear Father, unto a loving and dear Child (my Father! my Father!) As David once about Absolom, my Son, my Son! So Elisha here for Elijah, my Father, my Father! Ah my Father! my Father! Oh I have lost a Father, my Father, such a Father—The Chaldee Interpreter renders it, Rabbi, Rabbi: my Master, my Master: But in the Hebrew it is, Abba, Abba: my Father, my Father!