John Asty, A Funeral Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fleetwood, preach'd at Stoke Newington, June 23, 1728 (1728), p. 26

Let it be consider'd farther, That as to good Persons who are thus taken away, tho' it be a Loss to the World, a great Loss to the Family, or to the Church, yet they are taken away from the Evil to come, and are removed…