Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Death the Appointment of God: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Samuel Dana, Delivered in the First Congregational Church, Marblehead, August 21, 1864
And God was not dealing with him in anger, but in love; not as a stern judge, but as a kind father; he would bring him to death, but he would not leave him to struggle alone he would lay him in the grave, but he would not lose him there his redeemed spirit death could not touch, and his body would be restored a glorious form; both soul and body would be fully redeemed, and dwell with God forever. The good man, therefore, cast himself into the arms of his God and was at rest; and here is the resting-place of all faithful souls; there is rest nowhere else. Out of God darkness, despair, and misery reign.
The text contains two propositions, which we will consider in their order. It teaches.
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