Henry Grove, Death Abolished by Jesus Christ: A Funeral Sermon for Mr. Samuel Mullins, Who Died at Taunton, in the 17th Year of His Age (1727), p. 15

It was fit the threatning should be executed; the Veracity of God seemed to require it; Man therefore shall die. But shall Man die without Hope? Is there no Room for Mercy? Blessed be God, our Case is not thus desperate.…