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I hearde a voice from heauen saying vnto me, write: Blessed are they that die in the Lord thencefoorth: euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labours, and their workes ac∣company them.
THis present occasion considered (right ho∣norable & dearly beloued in our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus) this portion of Scripture of∣fereth most fit & necessary matter, both to me to speak of, & to you to he are. For (as you may well perceiue) herein is set down, what the state and condition of al those is, that die in the Lorde, yea immediatly vpō that their death. Of which num∣ber (I hope) all you here present are fully per∣swaded, this honorable person, whose funerall day heere this is, was one. And the more reue∣rently both to mooue me to speake thereof, and to prouoke you all the more attentiuely to listen to that which is therin auouched, we are to wey yt that which herein is set down is a proposition or assertion not first deuised, vttered, and recorded by the will & wit of man, but which came downe from heauen, left in writing thus vnto vs by ex∣presse and speciall commandement from thence, confirmed also to be most true by the assent and approbation of the holy Ghost. For Iohn the be∣loued disciple of Iesus Christ, & a faithfull wit∣nesse testifieth vnto vs, that he heard a voice from