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The holy longing
The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lombard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.The holy longing: or, The saints desire to be with Christ: delivered in a sermon at Al-hallows Lumbard-street, Aug. 24. 1658. At the funeral of Mr. Jacob Stock. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London.
London: printed by E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1659
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.
—Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum Tabernas regumque turres.*—
- *Hor. lib. 1. Carm. Ode 4.
There is a dying principle in all; the frame and contexture of their body is earthly, and tends to a dissolution. Nebuchadnezzars image, though it had an head of gold, yet feet of clay, Dan. 2. 23. Take the strongest man, let him be Sampson or Hercules, of whom we may say as the Poet, —Illi robur & as triplex circa pectus erat.—1
- 1Hor.