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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    —- j ] . 2. That the Devil Isa conftant eaemy to mankind, apt and Inclin’d, as far as God permits him, to do men all the mifchief he can. ‘ 3. That as he firft Introduce fin Into the World, fo he hath, by confequence, all the'calamities that afflidit There had been no Death, Sicknefs,or Diftemper upon the bodies of men, but from hence. Confider the Devil therefore, as the Prince and Leader of the Apoftafie,^who firft drew man into tranigreffion, and thereby render’d him liable to the Juftice of his Maker, turn’d his Paradife into a defart, and a region of immortal undecaying life, into a Valley of fickly Languilbings and death it felf 3 So may he be (aid to have had a( remoter ) hand, in binding not only this Daughter of Abraham^ but every child of Adam in all the AflBidions, Mala¬ dies, and Diftempers which befall them here, and finally in the bonds of Death too, whereof he is faid to have had the , power. Tho the Children of the/ecoW Adam^ (with ^ whom, for this purpofe he was partaker of Flefti and Blood, and became wfith them a Son of Abraham^znd of his Seed ) are, by be¬ ing fo bounds releas’d and made free, both from Death, and the bondage of fearing it, to which they were otherwife Subject all their days, as we (hall further fee anon. 4. Tho God do not ordinarily allow him more power^ yet we may well fiippofe him to have more malice againft thefe children of A- hraham( who thereby pafs into the account of his o wn Children alfb) being more intent upon vexing and afflidting, whom he ap¬ prehends or fiifpeds he (hall never be able finally to deftroy 3 and always apt to ufe all the power fliall be allow^ed him to this mif- chievous purpofe. Wennd that the afBidtions of the people of God, itt other kinds^ and even in this kindy are exprefly, often, at¬ tributed to the Devil. In other kinds, Satan Jha/l caft fome of you intoprifon. Revel. 2. lO. And divers think that thorn in the^ fe[h which the Apoftle fuffered, 2 Cor. 12. was fome acute bodily pain, and he (ays exprefly, it was a mejfenger of Satan fent to buffet him. He, ’tis faid, fmote Job with the tormenting boils that afflided him fo grievoufly, and fo long, and brought the other calamities upon him that you read of in his Story. y. And again it is further to be confidercd, that whereas in all Difeafes, the Morbifick Matter, whether immediate in Mens Bodies, or remoter in the incompafling Air, differs not from other matter, otherwife than only in the various difpofition, fi- • B guration