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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WILL OF THE REV. SAMUEL PURCHAS, B.D., Dated 31 May, 1625, Proved 21 Oct., 1626 P.C.C. 137 Hele.) In The Name Of God, Amen. May 31, A.d., 1625, I Samuell Purchas, Clarke, Rector of the Church of St. Martin's, neere Ludgate in London, often admonished of the present to provide for a better life and nowe in toller- able health, blessed be God, doe make and constitute and ordaine this my Last will and testament. Imprimis, I commend my soule to God my Father in the name of his sonne Jesus my saviour, through the sanctifyinge of the Holy and Coeternall spirit, beleevinge that Christ, (God manifested in the flesh), hath died for my sinnes, risen againe for my justification, hath ascended in tryumph leadinge captivity captive, and beinge sett at the right hand of power farre above all heavens, there appeareth before God for all saints and for me, lesse than the least of all, to make intercession for us synners and in his Fathers house to take possession for us mortalls that where he is wee may bee also; and from whence I expect with hope his glorious cominge to Judgment, my soule meane while shall out of his body of death returne to God that gave it, and rest with the spiritts of just and perfect men whose names are written in the booke of life; My body also shall rest in hope of a better resurrection, whereby this vile body shalbe made like to his gloriousbody who hath loved me and hath given himselfe for me. O Lord I have waited for thy salvation, I live not but Christ liveth in me, and to me to live is Christe and to dye is gayne, nor desire I to live but to do his worke, and so doe service to his servants, nor feare I to dye because I serve soe mightie, soe mercifull a Lord. Even soe come L: Jesu, come into me the worst of the worst of synners that where my synnes have aboun...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217316491 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217316492 |
| Weight | 1.26 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.87 In |
| List Price | $26.53 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 390 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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