Consolation in Life and Death, Derived from the Life of Christ: Being the substance of a sermon on the death of Mrs. Turner, preached at the Surrey Tabernacle, on Sunday evening, the 15th of August, 1824Church, J. (John)
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Consolation in Life and Death, Derived from the Life of Christ: Being the substance of a sermon on the death of Mrs. Turner, preached at the Surrey Tabernacle, on Sunday evening, the 15th of August, 1824
Church, J. (John)
Funeral sermons; Sermons, English -- 19th century
On this she commented as she went on, in a most striking manner. One
thing she observed: "Oh, it is easy to say we are sinners, but hard to
feel it. Yes it is the righteousness of Christ that I must appear in
before God--nothing but the work of a precious Christ wherein I can stand
justified before God, and whether I sink or swim I am fixed there." She
then wished to hear the eighth chapter of Acts; and coming to the fifth
verse, she seemed delighted. "Philip went down to Samaria, and preached
Christ unto them." "He did not tell them some great nobleman was coming
to bestow great riches upon them; but he went simply to preach Christ to
poor sinners." She then repeated the sweet verses: "Not all the blood of
beasts, &c." She begged the prayers of the Church when they met; and
often asked if she had been remembered by them. To those around her, she
said, "Oh, do beg of the Lord to cut the thread, for I long to be with
him." Then she said:
"The holy triumphs of my soul,
Shall death itself out-brave;
Leave dull mortality behind,
And fly beyond the grave."
One of her dear daughters telling her, she would _soon_ be with her dear
Jesus, she said, "do you think I shall, you have told me so so many
times--Oh, why is he so long coming." Soon after, finding herself very
low, nature sinking, and feeling she was going, she said to her daughter:
"Are yon alone? call up the rest of the family:" and while standing
around her, they witnessed her struggle. But recovering, she burst into
tears. "Come back again! dear Lord! I thought that I was going! how
long, Lord." She requested a gentleman to fetch a doctor, merely to let
her know, by her pulse, the pleasing news, that she was near her end. On
being informed she was near, she was more composed. At one time, she
exclaimed: "As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my
soul after thee, O, God.--I want to drink at the fountain." Lifting up
her hands, as if filled with increased joy, she said; "Too much, dear
Lord--dear Jesus, I want to embrace thee, as thou dost embrace me." She
begged they would lift her poor suffering arm out of bed, that she might
embrace her dear Jesus. Some sweet verses were spoken to her, on the
soul's entrance into glory. She said: "Jesus said unto the woman, 'Go,
and sin no more.'" "Now," said she, "is the time for that; those words
used once to distress me; but Christ the Heavenly Lamb takes all our sins
away--that is where I rest." One of her daughters said, "Upon the rock
still, mother?" She answered: "None but Jesus!--look up to the Lord for
me.--Why are his chariot wheels so long in coming?" Just before her
departure, she said to her husband, waving her hand: "All is well." Mr.
King and Mr. Borrows coming into the room--one of them observed, that
though she had lost her sight, what a mercy that the light and holy fire
in the tabernacle, should never go out--nor never be put out. On hearing
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