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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.
PSAL. 116.15. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints.
This Psalm is wholly Eucharistical; the Psalmists scope being to profess his endeared love to God, and to excite himself to a grateful acknowledgement of all those Engagements which were lying upon him to express this Love of his in true Thankfulness for all those Kindnesses which he had made him the Subject of: Hence there are two things which he here endeavours.
THis Psalm is wholly Eucharistical; the Psalmists scope being to profess his endeared love to God, and to excite himself to a grateful acknowledgement of all those Engagements which were lying upon him to express this Love of his in true Thankfulness for all those Kindnesses which he had made him the Subject of: Hence there are two things which he here endeavours.
1. A summary recital of the grounds and reasons of this Profession, or, what it was that God had so deeply obliged him by, Expressed, Enlarged, Aggravated to ver. 12.