Friday, August 7, 2009

Blessed Indeed

1741 Fri. 7 Aug. The body of our sister Muncy being brought to Short’s Gardens, I preached on those words, ‘Write! From henceforth, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Even so, saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.’ From thence we went with it to the grave, in St. Giles’s Churchyard, where I performed the last office, in the presence of such an innumerable multitude of people as I never saw gathered together before. O what a sight will it be when God saith to the grave, ‘Give back!’ And all the dead, small and great, shall stand before him!