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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    Cm] yotir father; as our Lord Jefus tells the Jews^ ^ If you were yihraha77u children, you would do the works of Abraham, You. do fo and (o, thus did not Abraham. Joh. 8. 30, 40. Pray cerMer ylhrah^m waSj and how he lived on earths like an inhabitant of heaven, as an heir of the heavenly Country, his bufinels was to foek^ better country^ that is^ the heavenly^ where^ fore God was not ajljamed to he called his God^ as in that llth, to the Hcb. I<5. ver. Jut if you will go from day to day grovelling in the dufl: of the earth, this did not Abraham. If you will fpend your lives in the purfiiit of vanity and trifles, this did not Abraham. There^ is ^ great priviledge belonging by Gofpel grant unto the children of covenanted parents, if they do not forfeit it, by negiedling, and pradiically difavowing their fathers God. 7. But I further infer hence, that fince this cempaflion has a 'teaf tho^ not a principal hand in the releafe that is given to them that belong to God, in whatfoever w^ay they are releaft, from all their infirmities, and ails, and affli^ions in this world 5 It very much becomes, and much concerns all the children of Abraham patiently to wait for it, in Gods owm w^ay. Pa¬ tiently, I fay, in Gods own way wait for it The children of /ihraham fhall be loofeifd fooner or later,'and in one way or other, tho very Jong, tho fo many years bound by fuch and fuch afBidling diftempers. You have a great inftance of this kind in that daughter of Jhraham^ whom God hath called away from us. In all that long exercife, the main ^ thing fhe was ever wont to infill upon, w'as that in all this affliftion, Ihe might gain patience fubmilTion, and inflruftion. And in her later time, when fhe drew^ nearer to eternity, was m.oreinview of it, that wzs the great fiibjedl wherew/ith fhe entertained her felf, and was con- verfant much with.fomewhat more lately written upon that fubjedt, as by Mr. Shower (now knowm to moft of you)and by another Author. And her lafl entertainmicnt, as I have been told, (as to helps from creatures in any fuch kind)w^as the repetition of what fome of you have heard the Emmanuef wherewith flte formerly pleafed her felf, as being, ’tis likely much habituated in the temper of her fpirit to the. ihoM£ht} of hm, tliat having, by agreement with her pious com