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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    C'j] md moft excellent of cur enjoyments. T\\Qhodyof sln^ and the, 'frsortal body are both puc ofF together. The imprifoned foul is fet free, and enters upon a fcate of everlafting liberty, is releaj^i: from the bands of deaths of whacfoever kind, and in the higheft, fuilefc (enfe, fliall in life, thorough Jefm Chfijt. What is the deceafe of a Saint, butatranflationoucofavailey of death, a Golgotha^ a place of Skulls, a region where, death reigns, into the region ofperfedand everlafting life? It is not to be called death fmply or ahfohitely^ but with diminution 5 ’tis death only in a csrtainrefpeU:^ W’hen in an higher^ andmach more confiderable ref- it is a birth rather 3 a dying out of one world, and a being born at the fame time, into another, a much more lightfome, a purer, and more glorious world. The fouliscured in a moment, of whatfoever was grievous or afflicting to it, and the body put into a certain way of cure, of being made from an earthly, mean, mortal thing, heavenly, fpiritual, incorruptible, and immortaU from a vile, a glorious body, like C hr if s own, and by that power, by which he can fab due all things to himfelf, Phil. 3-21. * Andnow^ forUfe. I. Learn, That there isnoinconffencyinthecafe, that the fame perfon fjould he at once the fabjefl of long continued bodily affliction, and of divine compaffion. Thefe are reconcilable things, fickly languiihings, under which one may be ready to fail, and com- paffions that fail not- This is a common Theme ^ but the due con- ftderation of it is too little common. Let it now be confidered with impartial equity, and with deep ferioufnefs. Do you think the all-comprehending mind of the Son of God now firft began to pity this daughter of Abraham s' While he w^as not yet afcended, this attribution is given him; Otherwife, no doubt, than as a falfe complemient; Lord thou knowefi all things— Since his afcenfion, we are d.ifmodht\.di\\ a feeling of our infirmities, fo as to be toucht with them, a continuing fympathy, remembring the inconveniences of that ftatehe hadpaft thorough ( as fhe once, non ignara mali&cc-) and is always ready, therefore, to do the part of a faithful and merciful high Prieft. Before his defeent, wemuft, with equal reafon, fuppofe him to have an mire profpeEt of the fad cafe of wretched mortals, in this miferable world of’ ours.What elfe made him dtfcendiAnd after that he was defeended, G this