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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. 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,
1. When they are despised or undervalued in the World: when Men grow weary of them, and their company is a trouble to them; now God will not suffer them to be troubled with them any longer, but sends to fetch them away to a place where they are better thought of, and shall meet with more worthy entertainment. It is Recorded of those Worthies, Heb. 11.38. That the World was not worthy of them; they were too good for them, and they did not know their Excellency, and therefore thought meanly of them; and now God will not let them enjoy them any longer, he calls them home.