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VirginiaHuguenot
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Robert Bolton, John Bunyan and Williams Bates all wrote excellent works on The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Hell and Heaven.
Richard Baxter, Directions for a Peaceful Death
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Richard Baxter, Directions for a Peaceful Death
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VirginiaHuguenot
Puritanboard Librarian
See also Alexander Whyte on The Swelling of Jordan; Andrew Gray's A Sermon Concerning Death; Richard Sibbes' The Vanity of the Creature; George Swinnock's Heaven and Hell Epitomised; Matthew Sylvester's How we may Overcome Inordinate Love of Life and Fear of Death; David Clarkson's Of Dying in Faith; Thomas Boston's Difference between the Righteous and the Wicked in their Death; Thomas Manton's The Saint's Triumph Over Death and The Blessed Estate of Them that Die in the Lord; John Owen's The Christian's Work of Dying Daily and The Death of the Righteous; John Newton's Triumph over Death and the Grave; Thomas Brooks' A Believer's Last Day is His Best Day; and Octavius Winslow's The Death of the Saints Precious.
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Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
I have read James Meikle's "Interviews with the King of Terrors". He was a surgeon on a British war ship in the 1700's. Here's a link and a pice from it.
http://www.gracegems.org/Meikle/king_of_terrors.htm
To debar death from our thoughts, and the future eternal world from our meditations"”will neither render us immortal, nor afford us a triumphant dismissal from this into the eternal world"”but must make our exit dreadful, and our latter end a scene of ineffable anguish. While, on the other hand, we never enjoy the pleasures of life, the sweets of society, and the endearments of our friends and families, with a better relish"”than when serious thoughts of death and eternity predominate in our mind. We should study"”
1. To have a practical belief in the future eternal states of both heaven and hell.
2. Not to be much elated with prosperity.
3. Not to be much dejected by adversity.
4. To more and more be weaned from the world, and to have our conversation more and more in heaven.
5. To have frequent meditations on death and eternity; and then, when death comes, we may be made, not only submissive to our dissolution"”but long to depart, and be ravished in the prospect of our being forever with the Lord.
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http://www.gracegems.org/Meikle/king_of_terrors.htm
To debar death from our thoughts, and the future eternal world from our meditations"”will neither render us immortal, nor afford us a triumphant dismissal from this into the eternal world"”but must make our exit dreadful, and our latter end a scene of ineffable anguish. While, on the other hand, we never enjoy the pleasures of life, the sweets of society, and the endearments of our friends and families, with a better relish"”than when serious thoughts of death and eternity predominate in our mind. We should study"”
1. To have a practical belief in the future eternal states of both heaven and hell.
2. Not to be much elated with prosperity.
3. Not to be much dejected by adversity.
4. To more and more be weaned from the world, and to have our conversation more and more in heaven.
5. To have frequent meditations on death and eternity; and then, when death comes, we may be made, not only submissive to our dissolution"”but long to depart, and be ravished in the prospect of our being forever with the Lord.
[Edited on 9-22-2006 by Blueridge reformer]
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