“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
Eze. 18:4
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? …thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Cor. 15:55-57
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Subsections
Burning of Thomas Cranmer
Funerals
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Order of Contents
Articles 3
May One Desire Death? 1
May One Contribute Anything Toward his Death? 1
Angels Carry Souls of Saints to Heaven upon Death 1
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Articles
1800’s
Hodge, Charles – A Brief Account of the Last Hours of Albert B. Dod (1845) 13 pp. Albert Dod was a professor of mathematics, a presbyterian theologian, and a friend of many of the Princeton theologians. Here is a wiki article on him.
Miller, Samuel – The Guilt, Folly & Sources of Suicide: Two Discourses Buy (1805)
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1900’s
Berkhof, Louis – Physical Death 4 long paragraphs in Systematic Theology (1950)
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Whether One May Desire Death?
Grove, Henry – An Inquiry in what Sense, and Upon what Grounds, Persons, who Naturally Dread Death, May Yet Desire Not to Live Always, being a Funeral Sermon occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Prudence Welman… (London, 1730) 49 pp.
Grove (1684–1738) was an English nonconformist, presbyterian minister, theologian and tutor.
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Whether One May Contribute Anything Towards his Own Death?
Hall, Joseph – 2nd Decade, Case 10, ‘Whether & How Far a Man May Act Towards his Own Death?’ in Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved Containing a Decision of the Principal Cases of Conscience of Daily Concernment & Continual Use Amongst Men: Very Necessary for their Information & Direction in These Evil Times (London, 1654)
Hall was a godly, Anglican bishop; he gets the answer right.
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That Angels Carrys the Souls of Saints to Heaven upon Death
Mather, Increase – ‘When Godly Men Die, Angels Carry their Souls to Another & a Better World’ on Lk. 16:22 in Several Sermons Wherein is Showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a Mighty Savior... (Boston, 1715), pp. 93-126
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“I, even I, am He, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive”
Deut. 32:39
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.”
1 Thess. 4:14
[Peaceful ‘sleep’ is a euphemism for death for the believer in the N.T.]
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