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A60128 Death a deliverance, or, A funeral discourse, preach'd (in part) on the decease of Mrs. Mary Doolittle, (late wife of Mr. Thomas Doolittle, minister of the Gospel in London) who departed this life the 16th of Decemb. 1692 by John Shower. Shower, John, 1657-1715. 1693 (1693) Wing S3661; ESTC R184223 53,028 143

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Death a Deliverance OR A Funeral Discourse Preach'd in Part on the Decease of M rs MARY DOOLITTLE Late WIFE of Mr. THOMAS DOOLITTLE Minister of the Gospel in London Who Departed this LIFE the 16th of Decemb. 1692. By JOHN SHOWER Eccles 7.1 The Day of Death is better than the day of one's Birth LONDON Printed for Abr. Chandler at the Chyrurgeons-Arms at the Entrance into Bartholomews-Close in Aldersgate-street And Samuel Wade at the Bible under the Piaza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1693. TO HIS Reverend and Honoured Friend and Brother Mr. DOOLITTLE SIR IF you did not know how little time I have to command I should need an Excuse for not having sooner finisht the Transcription and Enlargment of the following Discourse which was preached at your Desire on the Death of your Wife and now on the same Motive is made publick If it may any way Contribute to allay your Sorrow for your great Loss or be useful to any Others especially the Relations and Acquaintance of the Deceased I shall not Repent it The Text recommended to me is every way suited to the Occasion and to your Design of my instructing the Living from it however defective the Prosecution and Performance be You will not expect from me at least you cannot that a Subject so often treated on by Others should be beautified with new notions Neither do I fear to have displeased you by the citation of some Passages out of the practical Writings of the Excellent Mr. Baxter For whose Memory I know you have so dear a Value and by whom while he Lived you had the Honour and Advantage to be esteemed and loved For my own part I think my self obliged to take all Occasions to express my Thankfulness to God for the Ministry and Acquaintance the Books and Counsels of that Great and Holy Man whom I reckon to have been a Publick Blessing to the Nation and the Age and am confident that more Impartial Posterity will acknowledg it I cannot doubt but that you with many thousand Others do Joyn with me in Praising God for his long Life That One so often near the Grave and so fit for the upper better World and living in such delightful Fore-thoughts of Everlasting Rest should be spared and continued among us for so many years May he that hath the Residue of the Spirit fill surviving Ministers Younger and Elder with greater measures of Holy Light and Love to furnish us for our work and to assist and suceed us in it May we all learn to carry it with greater Indifference to this present Animal Life and dayly advance in our Desires and Preparations for the Heavenly one The Removal of any of our Friends who were made meet for Heaven may be many ways improved to this Purpose for whom you know we are not to Sorrow as others who have no Hope Doubtless your late Sickness and Indisposition since the breach God hath made in your Family will be regarded as an additional Call and help to such Thoughts and Affections as this Discourse is designed to promote And if the many Prayers of those who have reason to Bless God for you may be heard as in some Instances they have been we may hope your Life and Serviceableness shall be yet prolong'd In which request to God I heartily concur who am Sir Your Respectful tho most Unworthy Fellow-Servant in the Work of the Gospel John Shower London Febr. 13. 169● THE Contents CHAP. I. THe Introduction Paraphrase and Explication of the Text. CHAP. II. The Method and Design of the following Discourse Good Men in the Present State are burdened with their Sins and Sufferings so as to groan for Deliverance p. 13. CHAP. III. They have a Certain Expectation of a Better State and Life after this and may be comfortably perswaded of their own Title in particular p. 25. CHAP. IV. To Desire and Long for this Blessed State beyond the 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 the Temper of a Christian Spirit p. 33. CHAP. V. Of the Resurrection of the Body It is Possible Probable and Certain Where were the Souls of those who have been raised from the Dead during their separation from their Bodies Our Resurrection by Christ Illustrated and proved p. 50. CHAP. VI. The same Body for substance is to be raised again at the last day What the Change will be of these Bodies hereafter from what they are at present p. 68. CHAP. VII Inferences of Truth and Duty from the preceding Discourse The Soul doth not perish when the Body dies The Felicity of the Soul is that which we principally desire Our Faith should be confirmed about it Our Affections and Carriage should correspond to such a Belief p. 79. CHAP. VIII Of the Characters of such who may and ought to long for this Glorious Change who they are who have a Title to this desired Blessedness p. 60. CHAP. IX How Few Christians live in the Exercise of such Desires What may be the Reason Some fear of Death consistent with Vprightness Elder Christians and the Sickly and Infirm should quicken such a Desire of Deliverance Reproof and Exhortation in reference hereto p. 94. CHAP. X. Our Holy Friends Departed obtain their Desires by Dying this should moderate our funeral Sorrows A short Account of the Exemplary Character of Mrs. Mary Doolittle with some Passages of her last Sickness Conclusion p. 112. A Funeral Sermon 2 COR. V. 4. We that are in this Tabernacle do groan being Burdened not for that we would be uncloathed but cloathed upon that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life CHAP. I. The Introduction Paraphrase and Explication of the Text. SECT I. NOtwithstanding all the difficult Exercises of St. Paul from Enemies on every side upon the account of his Faithfulness to Christ in the Discharge of his Ministry He bears up with an invincible courage and resolution by the expectation of an Eternal Recompence in the other World This is the Tenor of his Discourse throughout the foregoing Chapter he begins and ends with it and repeats it at large in the three last Verses For this cause we faint not c. That is however perplexed and persecuted cast down and troubled yet neither he himself nor any of those ingaged in the same cause and work with him did faint in their minds because their present Sufferings did only prepare the way for a more glorious Reward For our light Affliction says he which is but for a moment worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory while we look not at the things which are seen which are but temporal but at the things which are not seen which are Eternal And supposing the worst that these Afflictions should end in Death yet such a case would admit of comfort For we know says he verse 1.2 of this chapter we are confidently perswaded upon very good grounds that if our Earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a better dwelling provided an happier Condition in