A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases.

  • Howe, John, 1630-1705.
Date:
1690
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Credit: A funeral sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson, the late wife of Henry Sampson, Dr. of Physick, who died Nov. 24. M.DCLxxxix / by John Howe ... Published principally for the use of such as languish under painful and chronical diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [?]_ in a more extraordinary apd immediate way, and befides the courfeof nature; tlie difparity in this cafe fignines nothing to the Icflening of the favour, towards thofe whom he vouchfafes to re¬ lieve in other cafes ; for the influence that he has in ordinary cafts is as truly divine. If the cure of a difeafed perfon be wrought by his blelTing upon ordinary natural means, his cooperating with nature is lefs amazing, but not lefs effedtual, or lefs kind; as alfo the efflux from God is (for his own part) as real, when he w’orks with fecond caufes, as without them ; and as immediately reaches the efifed, in both the fenfes of immediateneE', whereof fo much noife is made in the Schools. And we muft further know our Lord Chrift is now the uni- verfal Regent of all Nature, even as he is the chrijt, the world being devolv’d into his hands, and all power being given to him both in Heaven and Earth. He is Lord of ad. When therefore any ofyou arefick, it is by his difpolal, if you are recovered out of that ficknefs. Nor is his Agency lefs or lower, whether it be by bleffing a Medicine, or working a Miracle. His power and love are the fame either W'ay. And know, there is an honour, and acknowledgment due from Chriftians to their great crucifi’d Lord, who hath founded a dominion over this world in his blood, who died, and revived, and rofe again, that he might be Lord of li¬ ving and dead. Therefore you are to reckon you are beholden to Chrift for all your recoveries, and all your refrelhings that you meet with amidft the many infirmities and frailties of this your prefent mortal ftate. And if the releafe be by death, as the cafe is, which we now have fpecially to do with, that univerfal power of his over ad lives, muft be underftood immediately to reach to that cafe too. It is he that meafures lives, that lengthens them out, and cuts them Ihorter at his own plealure. And. as to thofe that are more pe¬ culiarly his own, it is a more peculiar, and favourable fuperin- tendency that he has over that affair, even of their very dying. Their death is precious in his fight. He with a moft_ gentle ten¬ der hand unties the knot of Man, releafes and receives the diE lodging Soul. Lord Jefrn receive my S^rit,z.% dying Stephen fpeaks. But, sly. We are to confider how far our Lord Jefus his com- paflion concerns him in fuch cafes; or wherein that may move him to interpofe in them fo, as in this cafe he did. B z And