Characters of true blessednesse delivered in a sermon preached at Saint Maries Church in Dover. Sep. 21. 1637. At the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall, wife of Anthony Percivall Esquire. By Iohn Reading.
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- Characters of true blessednesse delivered in a sermon preached at Saint Maries Church in Dover. Sep. 21. 1637. At the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall, wife of Anthony Percivall Esquire. By Iohn Reading.
- Author
- Reading, John, 1588-1667.
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- London :: Printed by E. G[riffin] for Ioyce Norton and Ric. Whitakers, at the signe of the Kings Armes in Saint Pauls Church yard,
- 1638.
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- Percivall, Alice, d. 1637.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Characters of true blessednesse delivered in a sermon preached at Saint Maries Church in Dover. Sep. 21. 1637. At the funeral of Mrs. Alice Percivall, wife of Anthony Percivall Esquire. By Iohn Reading." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10512.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.
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To my honou∣red Friend Anthony Percivall Esq. Cap∣tain of Arcliff Bulwark neere Dover: Comptrol∣ler of his Majesties Customes for Kent, &c.
Sir,
I doe at your request venture this rough draught to the pub∣like view; being more confident of good mens
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acceptance, than fear∣full of others rash cen∣sure: I had rather the busie should question my ability, than the iust my will to serve my friends: in which office he is not blame∣worthy, who cannot though he would, but he that will not though he can. The subject is accommodate to com¦fort concerning the deceased, in whose lives wee found these markes (the blessed are
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not lost, but gone be∣fore us:* 1.1 I shall goe to him, but hee shall not returne to mee, said David of his good childe, the evill hee bitterly bewailed) and to informe us what is Blessednesse, lest in the pursuit of the false, we misse the true. None envie the dead a convenient tombe: no good man will, these kind of mo∣numents, which equal∣ly preserve the me∣mory
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of the Saints departed, and more profitably, than the most curious Epitaphs instruct the survi∣ving: I have sup∣plyed some things which time straitned in the delivery. The Lord so direct and as∣sist us in the use of his ordinance, that when these dayes of sinne are ended. we may at∣taine the end of our hopes, jalvation and eternal happines in the
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world to come, through our most blessed Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. In whom I am
Your faithfull friend I. READING.
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* 1.1
2. Sam. 12. 23.