A Funeral Sermon Preach'd on the Decease of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Cutts

A Funeral Sermon Preach'd on the Decease of the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Cutts - Late Wife of the Right Honourable the Lord Cutts, on the 5th of December, 1697, at Kensington Church

This Lords Day being one of the Sundays in Advent, wherein, by Order of the Church, we are put in mind of Christs second coming to Judgment: And it being also a day on which we are to partake of the Holy Sacrament, shewing forth Christs Death till He come again; it might not be unseasonable on it to meditate also on our latter ends, if so be we had not this special Mournful occasion from the Death of the Honourable, the Vertuous, and the Religious Lady Cutts. There is not indeed before your Eyes one part of the outward doleful appearance usual at such Solemn Services: To the Monuments of her p. 2Lords Ancestors, to the place of their Burial, are removed the last earthly remains of that Excellent Person. But tho that spectacle of Mortality that object of True Sorrow, be not here present; the want of it, in order to create attention, or the want of Expressions suitable to her Worth, will (it is hoped) be supplied by your Remembrance, or rather View (as it were) of her so late presence in this Congregation: And by your knowledge of her Religious Deportment, her Exemplary Devotion, and Holy Life, truly imitable by any who prepare for a better World. And therefore, as none, who have the hope of Christians, but may wish they may pass their appointed Time in the same regular, modest, and pious Manner: So, tho Her days were few (in regard of what might have been expected, and was by all who knew Her, earnestly prayd for) yet no Christians but may wish that they may die the death of the Righteous, and that their latter end, tho so sudden, may be like Hers. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61910
Author: Wigan, William
Release Date: Apr 24, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English