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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    juft, and kind, and let him take them that belong to'him, when he thinks fit; only let him excufe my Family; let him take whom he will, only let him touch no Relation of mine, not my Husband, Wife, Child, Brother, Sifter, take whom he will, but let all mine alone. I agree to jll he fliall do well enough, only let him allow me my exception. But if every one be of this temper and refolution, for them- felves and theirs, according to this tendency, and courfe of things, he ihall have none at all to afcend ; none to brin^ with him, when he returns. Thofe that are dead in Jefas, he u to bring with him. No, he fhould be folitary, and unat¬ tended for all them. They, and _ all their Relations would be immortal upon Earth. How' ill doth this agree, and ac¬ cord with the Chriftian Scheme and model of .things ? But you will fay, what 1 would I perfwade you to be in¬ different, and not to love, and care for your Relatives, or be unwilling to part with them. No. All that I perfwade to is that there be a mixture in your temper 5 and fuch a mix¬ ture, as that the prevailing ingredient therein, may agree with , the ftronger and weightier. reafon. ’Tis not that I would have love extingaifht among Relatives; but I would ha\'e it moderated and fubdued, to that degree, as to admit of be¬ ing governed by Superiour, Greater, and Nobler Confidera- tions. Do you think Chrift did expeff or defign, that his Difciples Ihould not .lQve .him.„ And yet heuells .them, you loved me, you would rejoice that 1 fay, I go to my Father. And who in all this John 14. 28. World could ever have fuch a lofs, as they of him, dwelling in flefh among them ? Yet, fays he, if you loved me, you would rejoice, that I fay, I go to my Fa¬ ther. And when the Apoftle, vifibly tending towards death, by the prediction given concerning him, 21.13. faid to the Difciples round about him, IVhat mean you to weep, and to breaks my Heart ? / am ready, not only to he bound, hut to die for the Name of Jefus. If there had not been a faulty ex- . cefs in the affeCtion they expreft , certainly he would not have rebuk’d it. He would not have blam’d what he thought not blame-worthy.