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Quotes by John Pearson

Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
– John Pearson
But honorable persons, as they die like common men, so that only dieth with them which was common unto all degrees of men; their singular respects, the priviledges of their greatness, their honors survive them, and descend unto their Heirs with their Inheritance.
– John Pearson
But when it first beginneth in a superior person, the proper effect which it createth in an inferior, is not of a single nature, but such a love as is mingled with duty and respect.
– John Pearson
By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
– John Pearson
First, learn from hence to meditate upon your own Mortality, and be now assured, by this neer and home example, that your self shall die.
– John Pearson
Fourthly, I desire you to look not only upon that which you have lost, but also upon that which he hath left behinde him.
– John Pearson
Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
– John Pearson
If we mourn for the death of any person departed, and the waters appear upon the face of man, yet after the seventh day, when the Olive leaf is pluckt, when we have considered the peace, and rest, and joyes of the souls departed in the fear of God, 'tis time for the waters to abate, for mourning to cease.
– John Pearson
In this the similitude is so great, that there is no difference in the nature of the love produced, and that which did produce it.
– John Pearson
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
– John Pearson
Love, when in an equal, commandeth love; and this is so just, that fire doth not more naturally create a flame.
– John Pearson
Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.
– John Pearson
Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him.
– John Pearson
Secondly, reflect upon that love and entire affection which you have lost; and could no otherwise be lost, but by losing him, in whom it lived.
– John Pearson
Secondly, the death of the righteous is to be desired rather then lamented: and it were a dishonour put upon Religion to think a pious man less happy dead, then when he liv'd.
– John Pearson
The love of God to man challengeth love from us, but that of such a nature as cannot be demonstrated but by obedience; and that of a Father to his Son is of the same condition, though not in the same proportion.
– John Pearson
The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.
– John Pearson
There is so much deceitfulness in the heart of man, so much hypocrisie in Funeral mourning, that you may bless God for your own assurance of the sincerity of your natural affection, and religious respect to your Parents, and take delight in a just expectation, that it will be rewarded by the future respect of your children.
– John Pearson
They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
– John Pearson
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
– John Pearson
Thirdly, I speak not this out of design to renew or advance your grief, to tell you what you have lost alone; but I propound this privation, that I may contrive it for your imitation, endeavouring to stir up the same fire, and to kindle the same affection in your self, who now are wholly to be considered in the same relation.
– John Pearson
Those which live in impiety, and depart in their iniquity, they which have here provoked the wrath of God, and goe hence with that wrath abiding on them, as they could create nothing to their relations but sorrow in their life, so must they necessarily increase it at their death.
– John Pearson
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
– John Pearson
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
– John Pearson
What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
– John Pearson