Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's DuelDonne, John
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together with Death's Duel
Donne, John
Meditations
necessarily die, yet at no breach or battery which they had made upon
his sacred body issued his soul; but _emisit_, he gave up the ghost; and
as God breathed a soul into the first Adam, so this second Adam breathed
his soul into God, into the hands of God.
There we leave you in that blessed dependency, to hang upon him that
hangs upon the cross, there bathe in his tears, there suck at his
wounds, and lie down in peace in his grave, till he vouchsafe you a
resurrection, and an ascension into that kingdom which He hath prepared
for you with the inestimable price of his incorruptible blood. Amen.
FOOTNOTES:
[347] Psalm cxv. 6.
[348] Psalm cxxxix. 6.
[349] Psalm cxviii. 23.
[350] Psalm c. 3.
[351] Isaiah, xxxvii. 3.
[352] Rom. vii. 24.
[353] Gen. vi. 14.
[354] Gen. iv. 1.
[355] John, xiv. 2.
[356] Matt. viii. 20.
[357] Heb. xiii. 14.
[358] Exod. xvii. 1.
[359] Gen. xlvii. 9.
[360] 2 Cor. v. 6.
[361] Job, x. 18, 19.
[362] Exod. xvi. 3.
[363] 1 Kings, xix. 4.
[364] Jonah, iv. 3.
[365] Rev. i. 18.
[366] 1 Cor. xv. 33.
[367] Acts, ii. 31; xiii. 35.
[368] Ver. 10.
[369] Job, xxiv. 20.
[370] Job, xxi. 23, 25, 26.
[371] Isaiah, xiv. 11.
[372] Heb. xi.
[373] De Civitate Dei, lib. xvii.
[374] Matt. i. 21.
[375] Luke, xxiv. 26.
[376] Cant. viii. 6.
[377] _Ibid._ 7.
[378] Gen. iii. 15.
[379] Luke, xii. 50.
[380] Heb. xii. 2.
[381] Matt. xx. 22.
[382] Psalm cxvi. 12.
[383] Matt. xvii. 3; Mark, ix. 4.
[384] Luke, ix. 31.
[385] Luke, xxii. 41.
[386] Matt. xxvi. 40.
Transcribers Notes:
I corrected an error in Footnote 1. The original book said
Matt. xiii. 16, which I corrected to verse 15.
I corrected an error in Footnote 65. The original book said
Jer., which I corrected to Lam.
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