The burial prayer
Exactly answerable to this are those solemn words in the prayer at the burial of the dead. Beseeching you that it may please you, of your gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of your elect, and to hasten your kingdom, so that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of your holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in your everlasting glory.
1771 text
Exactly answerable to this, are those awful words, in the prayer, at the burial of the dead; “Beseeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom: that we with all those that are departed, in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy everlasting glory.”
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Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.
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