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The high esteem which God hath of the death of his saints. As it…
The high esteem which God hath of the death of his saints. As it was delivered in a sermon preached October 7. 1683. Occasioned by the death of the Worshipful John Hull Esq: who deceased October 1, 1683. / By Samuel Willard teacher to a church in Boston. ; [Four lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green for Samuel Sewall, 1683
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.
2. Others read it [Rare and Dear] and understand it, that, because such things as are dear to us, we are not wont to leave or commit to the dispose of others; therefore David intends, that God doth not easily or often grant Wicked Men their desires upon his Saints, or suffer them to take away their lives; and that David draws this general Conclusion to comfort others withal, from the great Experience which he had had of manifold and strange Deliverances: But,
3. The most comprehensive meaning of this Expression may be this, viz. That God takes as special and weighty care about the Death of his Saints, as men are wont to do about those things that are of greatest worth and value in their esteem: the Septuagint Translateth it by [Greek or Hebrew], Honourable, intimating that God puts great honour upon his dying Saints; And this esteem discovers it self:
3. The most comprehensive meaning of this Expression may be this, viz. That God takes as special and weighty care about the Death of his Saints, as men are wont to do about those things that are of greatest worth and value in their esteem: the Septuagint Translateth it by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Honourable, intimating that God puts great honour upon his dying Saints; And this esteem discovers it self:
4. In his all-wise and careful timing of their Death: He takes order that his People shall always die in the best time for them: it may be a bad time for the World to lose them in, but it is a good time for them to leave it in. Hence,
4. In his all-wise and careful timing of their Death: He takes order that his People shall alwayes die in the best time for them: it may be a bad time for the World to lose them in, but it is a good time for them to leave it in. Hence,