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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.
3. That Death cannot make a Believer miserable, but must needs render him happy. Those precious thoughts which God hath conceived in his own breast for dying Saints, cannot choose but break forth into suitable operations for them; if their death be precious in God's sight, it must needs bring forth precious fruits for them, and such as shall fill them with perfect Felicity. Hence of all the Men in the World the Saint is the Man that hath the least need of being afraid to die: this glorious promise is a Believers plentiful security against all the frightful menaces of the King of Terrors; and it may light a Child of God into and through this dark valley, Psal. 16.9, 10. Therefore my heart rejoiceth, and my Glory is glad ▪ &c.
3. That Death cannot make a Believer miserable, but must needs render him happy. Those precious thoughts which God hath conceived in his own breast for dying Saints, cannot chuse but break forth into suitable operations for them; if their death be precious in God's sight, it must needs bring forth precious fruits for them, and such as shall fill them with perfect Felicity. Hence of all the Men in the World the Saint is the Man that hath the least need of being afraid to die: this glorious promise is a Believers plentiful security against all the frightful menaces of the King of Terrors; and it may light a Child of God into and through this dark valley, Psal. 16.9, 10. Therefore my heart rejoyceth, and my Glory is glad ▪ &c.
4. That the Death of a Saint calls for solemn and serious observation by the living. It is an awful thing for a Righteous man to die, and no man lay it to heart; for the Godly▪ to be taken away, and none consider it: if the Saints death be so precious in the sight of God, then it is certain that there are great and weighty reasons in the very circumstances of their dying which Men ought to regard: there is a great