“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

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