A treatise of death : the last enemy to be destroyed .. . i ittoftrengthenourfaith^ p. 129 The Lords day honourable, p. 130. life 10. How eamefily we Jhould pray for thefecond coming ofChriji, though Death be ter-rible, p. 134 Some irnit able parages of the Life of Elizabeth,late Wife of Mr. Jofeph Baker, whofe Fu-nerals occafionedthisdifcourfe, [p«i44« -•— i Cor. The loft Enemy that/ball be de-ftroyed i* Death. E A T H is (he occafion of thisdays meeting : and Death muy:be the Subject of our prefentMeditations. I muft fpeak ofthat which will fhortly filencemd* > and you hear
A treatise of death : the last enemy to be destroyed .. . i ittoftrengthenourfaith^ p. 129 The Lords day honourable, p. 130. life 10. How eamefily we Jhould pray for thefecond coming ofChriji, though Death be ter-rible, p. 134 Some irnit able parages of the Life of Elizabeth,late Wife of Mr. Jofeph Baker, whofe Fu-nerals occafionedthisdifcourfe, [p«i44« -•— i Cor. The loft Enemy that/ball be de-ftroyed i* Death. E A T H is (he occafion of thisdays meeting : and Death muy:be the Subject of our prefentMeditations. I muft fpeak ofthat which will fhortly filencemd* > and you hear of thatwhich will fpeedily flop your ears; and wemuft fpend this hour on that which waits tocat our thred, and{take down our glaffe, andend our time, and tell us we have fpent ourlaft. ^ But as it hath now done good by doinghurt,fo arejwe to conJider,of the accidental be-nefits , as vtffcll as of the natural evil, fromwhich the heavenly wifdome doth extrad:then). Death hath now bereaved a body ofits Soul • but thereby it hath fent that Soul D te. (2) to Chrift h where it hath now experience howgood it is to be abfent from the body, and pre-sent with the Lord, 2 Cor. It hath fepa-rated a faithful wife from a beloved husband ;but it hath fent her to a husband dearliwr be-loved \ and taught her now by experience tofay, That to be with Chrift is beft of It hath deprived a forrowful husband. of a wife,& deprived us all of a faithful friend:bur it hath thereby brought us to the houfe ofmourning, which is better for us than thehoufe of teafting, ( a Paradox to the fle(h, butan undoubted truth: ) tor here we may feethe end of all men, and we that are yet livingmay lay it to our hearts, Ecclefi. ,3. Yea,it hath brought us to the houfe of God *, andcccafioned this ferious addrefs to his Holxnefs,that we may be inftru&ed by his Word, as weare warned by his Works h and that we maybe wife to underftand, and to confider ourlatter end, Dent. 32. 29. its like youl
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