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Meditations for Sundays and Holydays; In a Selection of Extracts From the Writings of Bishop Hall
Meditations for Sundays and Holydays In a Selection of Extracts From the Writings of Bishop Hall Author:Joseph Hall General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Milli... more »on-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 's O. m Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghnst, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. -- Acts vii. 55. (Epistlt.) Man, on his deathbed, hath a double prospect; which, in his lifetime, the interposition of pleasure and miseries debarred him from. The good man looks upward, and sees heaven open, with Stephen; and the glorious angels, ready to carry up his soul. The wicked man looks downward, and sees three terrible spectacles ; Death, Judgment, Hell, one beyond another; and all to be passed through, by his soul. I marvel not, that the godly have been so cheerful in death, that those torments, whose very sight hath overcome the beholders, have seemed easy to them. I marvel not, that a wicked man is so loth to hear of death ; so dejected, when he feeleth sickness ; and so desperate when he feeleth the pangs of death : nor that every Balaam would fain die the death of the righteous. Henceforth, 1 will envy none but a good man : I will pity nothing so much as the prosperity of the wicked. -- Meditations and Vows, Century 1. [984] B And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. -- Acts vii. 66. (Epistle.) Had I been in the streets of Jericho, sure, methinks, I should have justled with Zaccheus for the sycamore, to see Jesus; and should have blessed my eyes for so happy a prospect: and yet, I consider that many a one saw his face on earth, which shall never see his glory in heaven ; and I hear the Apostle say, Though we have kno...« less