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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. 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.
2. When there are evil and […] ti•es hastening upon the place where they […] they […] take• away from the wrath to come, Isai. 57.1. God now takes them of•, and this he doth not only to make a way for his wrath▪ by taking them out of the Gap, where they stood to prevent ruin; but also to free them from those Sorrows and distressing Calamities which else they must needs undergo: this was a mercy promised to tender-hearted Josiah, 2 King. 22. ult▪ Thou shalt be gathered to thy Fathers in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.
2. When there are evil and 〈…〉 ti•es hastening upon the place where they 〈…〉 they 〈…〉 take• away from the wrath to come,