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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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5. Death will put an end to a believers molestations; man is born to trouble, Job 5. 7. he is the natural ⟨p. 21⟩heir to it. This life is subject to injury*; we do not (as Seneca saith) finish our troubles while we live here, but change them. Quisque suos patimur manes. Every one hath his cross to carry; sometimes poverty pincheth, sometimes sickness tortures, sometimes Law-suits vex; man is like a Tennis-ball, bandied up and down by providence; while wicked men are in the world, never look for rest. These troubled Seas (as the Prophet calls them)* will be casting forth their foam and mire upon the godly; and well then may a believer say his Nunc dimittis, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart. Death gives a child of God his quietus est*, it sends him a Writ of ease, Job 3. 17. There (that is, in the grave) the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
5. Death will put an end to a believers molestations; man is born to trouble, Job 5. 7. he is the natural ⟨p. 21⟩heir to it. This life is subject to injury*; we do not (as Seneca saith) finish our troubles while we live here, but change them. Quisque suos patimur manes. Every one hath his crosse to carry; sometimes poverty pincheth, sometimes sicknesse tortures, sometimes Law-suits vex; man is like a Tennis-ball, bandied up and down by providence; while wicked men are in the world, never look for rest. These troubled Seas (as the Prophet calls them)*