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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. That the Title of a Saint is a most honourable Title: or that it is the greatest honour and privilege in the World to be a Saint; this is the honour that all His Saints have, that their Death is precious in His sight: and there is no Worldly Title, though never so glittering and glorious, that involves in it such a privilege as this is: they that have them may live in great splendour among Men, and be followed with the stately Solemnities of Funeral Pomp to their House of Darkness: but in God's account (which is alone to be set by) they are in their Deaths of no more value than so many Beasts, Psal. 94.20. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the Beasts that perish. This Dignity is not annexed or appropriated to Imperial Crowns, to Robes of ⟨p. 13⟩State, or to the Thrones of Kingdoms, but only to a Saint▪ who then would not labour to be of that number?
1. That the Title of a Saint is a most honourable Title: or that it is the greatest honour and priviledge in the World to be a Saint; this is the honour that all His Saints have, that their Death is precious in His sight: and there is no Worldly Title, though never so glittering and glorious, that involves in it such a priviledge as this is: they that have them may live in great splendor among Men, and be followed with the stately Solemnities of Funeral Pomp to their House of Darkness: but in God's account (which is alone to be set by) they are in their Deaths of no more value than so many Beasts, Psal. 94.20. Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the Beasts that perish. This Dignity is not annexed or appropriated to Imperial Crowns, to Robes of ⟨p. 13⟩State, or to the Thrones of Kingdoms, but only to a Saint▪ who then would not labour to be of that number?