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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.
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,
1. Till the fit time is come, He secures their Lives for them, and that oftentimes almost miraculously: so that all the Malice, Rage, Spite and Power of their Enemies shall not be able to effect it, and whiles they are thus laying their heads together plotting and contriving how to bring it about, God laughs at them, Psal. 37.12, 13. The Wicked plots against the Just — The ⟨p. 8⟩Lord shall laugh at him. How many consultations and endeavours were there against the Life of Athanasius of old, and of Luther in later times, and yet they could not obtain to cut short one of their days appointed.
1. Till the fit time is come, He secures their Lives for them, and that oftentimes almost miraculously: so that all the Malice, Rage, Spite and Power of their Enemies shall not be able to effect it, and whiles they are thus laying their heads together plotting and contriving how to bring it about, God laughs at them, Psal. 37.12, 13. The Wicked plots against the Just — The ⟨p. 8⟩Lord shall laugh at him. How many consultations and endeavours were there against the Life of Athanasius of old, and of Luther in later times, and yet they could not obtain to cut short one of their dayes appointed.