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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
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Yet he stands upon feet of clay; he is but pulvis animatus, and must moulder away in time, death will come with an Habeas corpus at last. Tamerlane a Scythian Captain, the terror of his time, died with three fits of an ague.*
Yet he stands upon feet of clay; he is but pulvis animatus, and must moulder away in time, death will come with an Habeas corpus at last. Tamerlain a Scythian Captain, the terrour of his time, died with three fits of an ague.*
- *Paulus Jovius Elog. lib. 2.
The Grammarian who declines all other Nouns, knows not how to decline death. Is my strength (saith Job) the strength of stones? Job 6. 12. Suppose it were, yet,—gutta cavat lapidem,—the continual dropping of sickness would in time wear away this stone. There is no such thing as an earthly eternity; death is called the house appointed for all living, Job 30. 23.
But though death be in it self necessary, to Saint Paul it was voluntary; it was not so much a debt, as a vote; *not so much Pauls task, as his choice; he doth not say, I must be dissolved, but I would be dissolved. Having a desire to depart.
- *Mori velit non ex debito, sed ex beneplacito. Bern.