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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.
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.
2. When their fit time is come, and they are prepared for it: God mercifully taketh order about their dying, and makes their Death to be such, as it shall be a […] witness of his dearest respect unto them; and hence we may observe a threefold circumstance of the time of the Saints dying; one of which is always accommodable thereunto: God therefore takes them away, either,
2. When their fit time is come, and they are prepared for it: God mercifully taketh order about their dying, and makes their Death to be such, as it shall be a witness of his dearest respect unto them; and hence we may observe a threefold circumstance of the time of the Saints dying; one of which is alwayes accommodable thereunto: God therefore takes them away, either,