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The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…
The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have concerning their dead friends / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Five lines from II Corinthians]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon › Proposition 3: PROPOSITION III. The Death of the Godly is but a sort of sleep.
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. Sleep gives a suspension to labour Men that work must be awake, when they ⟨p. 26⟩go to sleep they leave off labouring; it puts an end to present business; men lay aside their work, when they lay themselves down to rest: and the death of Gods Children gives a cessation unto their work: the time of life is working time for Gods People, and they have a great deal of business to be employing themselves in, whilst they are here, in glorifying of God, and in working out of their own Salvation; this is enough to employ all their time, if they had a great deal more than they have; but when once they come to die, they have done with this, there is no business to be done in the Grave, Eccl. 9 10. and this is one part of the happiness of Believers in their Death, That they rest from their Labours, Rev. 14:13.
2. Sleep gives a suspention to labour Men that work must be awake, when they ⟨p. 26⟩go to sleep they leave off labouring; it puts an end to present business; men lay aside their work, when they lay themselves down to rest: and the death of Gods Children gives a cessation unto their work: the time of life is working time for Gods People, and they have a great deal of business to be employing themselves in, whilst they are here, in glorifying of God, and in working out of their own Salvation; this is enough to employ all their time, if they had a great deal more than they have; but when once they come to dy, they have done with this, there is no business to be done in the Grave, Eccl. 9 10. and this is one part of the happiness of Believers in their Death, That they rest from their Labours, Rev. 14:13.