Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late…

Name: Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late…
Author: Cotton Mather

Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governor of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interred on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governour of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interr'd on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728printed by Timothy Green, 1708

[8], 3-40 p. ; 13 cm. (12mo) · 7.6k words · Evans 1365

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Mortality CONSIDERED. At the FUNERAL Of the Honourable John Winthro…: Mortality CONSIDERED. At the FUNERAL Of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq

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V. Must we Dye? Yet let us Rejoice in a Redeemer, that will one Day save us ⟨p. 31⟩from Death Dying Saint; Let that be thy dying Song; Job 19.25. I know that my Redeemer Lives; and that He shall stand at the Latter day over the Earth; And He shall Raise me out of the Earth. O Joyful Tidings! The Resurrection was of old called, The Consolation. Tho' the Pagans were Strangers to the Mystery, and Scoffers at it, [Witness Plinies flouts, Quae malum, ista dementia est, itorari Vitam Mort!] Yet, The Children of God, even in the Secular Times [Called so, Rom. 16.25. because measured by Jubilees:] of the Old Testament, believed a Resurrection. God promised them a share in the Blessings of, The Kingdom of the Messiah. They Died, before these Promises were accomplished. Hence they inferred, That they must be Raised from death, to Enjoy these Promises. It was a Right Inference! Their Faith was God will Redeem my Soul from the Power of the Grave. But then, the Gospel of the New Testament, has more Conspicuously, more Abundantly, brought Life and Immortality to Light; a Resurrection, that is, to a Life of Immortality. For now we have seen our Lord JESUS CHRIST Himself Risen to such a ⟨p. 32⟩Life; and so Risen, as to leave no Room for doubt, that He will also Raise His Followers, to such a Life. He has told us, [For so it should be rendered:] He that Believeth on me, shall not die for ever: Tho' he Dye, he shall not lie dead for ever. And we have, in His Resurrection, an Irrefragable Proof, That He has not therein Deceived us. This, This then shall be the Triumph of our Souls: LORD, When wilt Thou come, and make the Graves yield up their Dead, and deliver the Lawful Captive, and the Prey of the Terrible! Rejoice not against us, O our Enemy, Death; For, tho' we Fall, we shall Rise again; when we sit in Darkness, the Lord shall be a Light unto us! Wherefore, Comfort one another with these Words. Among the Primitive Christians, they would often have the Portraits of Enoch, of Lazarus, of Jonah, and of Ezekiels Vision, on their Caemeterial Cells, to Proclaim their Comfortable Faith of the Resurrection, to sweeten their Habitation in the Dry Pit in the Land where the Sun shines not. But on the Sepulchral Monuments, it was usual for others of them to inscribe the First Letters in the Name of our Saviour.

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Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late…

EPITAPHIUM.

OF Old, The Shorter the Epitaph, the Better and Brighter it was accounted; so it contained the Achievements of the Person there Deposited. Plato thought Four Lines Enough: And these Few Lines, if not Enough, yet will carry a great deal of Merit in them.

OF Old, The Shorter the Epitaph, the Better and Brighter it was accounted; so it contained the Atchievements of the Person there Deposited. Plato thought Four Lines Enough: And these Few Lines, if not Enough, yet will carry a great deal of Merit in them.

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EPITAPHIUM.

OF Old, The Shorter the Epitaph, the Better and Brighter it was accounted; so it contained the Achievements of the Person there Deposited. Plato thought Four Lines Enough: And these Few Lines, if not Enough, yet will carry a great deal of Merit in them.

OF Old, The Shorter the Epitaph, the Better and Brighter it was accounted; so it contained the Atchievements of the Person there Deposited. Plato thought Four Lines Enough: And these Few Lines, if not Enough, yet will carry a great deal of Merit in them.

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