A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood.

  • Wood, Thomas, -1826.
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[1798]
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Credit: A sermon, preached on the death of Mr. N. Aspden, surgeon : before a respectable audience, in the Methodist Chapel, Blackburn, on Sunday, September 30th, 1798. With enlargements, and illustrated with notes / by T. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A SERMON, &c. i Thejfalonians, iv. 13. « I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, U CONCERNING THEM THAT ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE “ SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS, WHICH HAVE NO u HOPE.” Man is formed, by the great Author of nature, pro¬ pitious to the focial life: he gives ample proof of this, in his domeftic, civil, commercial, and religious- m- tercourfe. Yet, the Chriftian religion, is wifely de- figned, and commodioufly adapted, to improve his focial powers, by impregnating them with principles of more catholic, more permanent, and more exalted benevolence. The apollle Paul having heard, that fome of the members of the Chriftian church, at Thelfalonica, nad departed this life ; and that furviving friends and re¬ latives were much affedted thereby---having loft their fociety, their counfel, and friendfhip ; he, wiftiing to leffen their immoderate grief, and adminifter conlola- tion to their forrowful hearts, alFures them, upon the foundation of revealed religion, that they thould meet them again, in a better world, embrace each other, and part no more. In our text he fays, 1 would not have you to he ignorant, brethren, concerning them nvhich are afltcji, that ye for row not, even as others which, have