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spirit_n	holy_a	person_n	son_n	20,542	5	6.1434	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96616	The pathway to eternal life being the last sermon of that eminent divine Mr. T. Williams, B.D., lately deceased.	Williams, T., B.D.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2771A; ESTC R42804	6,539	18

a sensible decay of Nature I have not long to stay with you but must follow as I hope those blest Souls that are gone to the Bosom of Bliss before me In the first place to do all the Good I can whilst I live I commend the perusal of my Last Sermon to you to which end I have given order it shall be printed for the general Benefit and particularly of you that have heard it delivered from my Mouth and being so suitable to the Occasion I may well term it my Funeral Sermon In the next place I desire you earnestly to repent you of your Sins and bring up your Children in the fear of the Lord. In the third place Let your dying Pastor prevail with you to live in Love and Unity with one another and be charitable to the Poor comfort the Afflicted and so you will bring down a Blessing on your selves and your Posterity Fourthly Put not Death far away from your Thoughts as a thing at a distance but strive to be always prepared for it for we know not th● Hour of its Coming seeing when w● think it farthest off it often is nearest a hand and too sadly surprizes many like a Thief in the Night And now what else remains I hope a good Man succeeding me in this Cure will not fail to instruct everyone of you as occasion shall require And now the Blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and Holy Spirit Three Persons and One God be with you and remain with you to your Lives ends Amen This he expressed so affectionately as made them weep over so good a dying Man After these Exhortations he proceded to repeat the following Prayer His Prayer O Eternal God! Father of Spirits Everlasting King of Glory look down with the Eyes of thy infinite Goodness and Mercy to me thy poor and unworthy Servant lying on my Bed of Sickness preparing to come unto thee strengthen me against the Faars and Terrors of Death and give me a stedfast Faith and Hope to overcome all the subtle Temptations of Satan that in this last Encounter he suggests to stagger my Confidence in ●hee O let me remain sure grounded and suffer me to place it no where else but in thee ●hat living I may be thine or dying I may be ●hine and ever praise and magnifie thy Holy Name for all thy Mercies through the Me●its and Mediation of Jesus Christ my ever ●lessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen After this fetching some Sighs with ●●fted up hands he put up the following ●jaculations His last pious Ejaculations O Lord thou hast been my Refuge from my Youth and under thy everlast●ng Arm is my Covering and my Salvation As the Hart panteth after the Water-brook 〈◊〉 my Soul thirsteth for the Living God I am in a straight between two but my ●esire is to be dissolved and be with Christ O how amiable are thy Tabernacles ●●ou Lord of Hosts and how blessed are ●●l they that dwell therein Why art thou so heavy O my Soul ●●d why art thou so disquieted within me 〈◊〉 put thy Trust in God and he shall deliver ●●ee from the Power of the Enemy Death is swallowed up in Victory O ●eath Where is thy Sting O Grave ●here is thy Victory Thanks be to God who giveth me the Victory through ou● Lord Jesus Christ I have fought the Fight I have finishe● my Course I have kept the Faith and from this Day is laid up for me a Crown of Glory These last words he brought forth with a pleasing smile and then fainting he said Lord Jesus into thy hands I commend my Spirit and so sweetly died at the Departure of whose Soul there was such a harmonious Sound heard as made those pr●sent fall on their Knees and give Praise 〈◊〉 God for all his Mercies As for the Sermon before set down th● Parishioners were earnest to have it preached from his Notes at his Funeral before it came abroad and prevail'd with his Relations accordingly the Auditors being very numerous and thus passed this painful Pious Divine from this troublesome Life to an endless one in Glory FINIS Christian Reader If that these weighty Considerations should be reckoned not worth laying out one Penny be pleased to read it Gratis keep it clean and return it in two Hours