14. Upon occasion of a funeral.

Lord, give us to find it good for us to go to the house of mourning, that we may be minded thereby of the end of all men, and may lay it to our heart, and may be so wise as to consider our latter end; for we must also be gathered to our people as our neighbours and brethren are gathered; and though whither those that are dead in Christ are gone, we cannot follow them now, yet grant that we may follow them afterwards, every one in his own order. Eccl 7:2. Deut 32:29. Num 27:13. John 13:36. 1 Cor 15:23.

We know that thou wilt bring us to death, and to the house appointed for all living, but let us not see death, till by faith we have seen the Lord Christ, and then let us depart in peace, according to thy word. And when the earthly house of this tabernacle shall be dissolved, let us have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Job 30:23. Luke 2:26, 29. 2 Cor 5:1.

And give us to know that our Redeemer liveth, and that though after our skin, worms destroy these bodies, yet in our flesh we shall see God, whom we shall see for ourselves, and our eyes shall behold, and not another. Job 19:25, 26.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.