John Nesbitt, A Funeral Sermon Occasion’d by the Death of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Russell, Late Minister of the Gospel, Preach’d at Newington-Green, Nov. 28, 1714 (London: John Clark, 1714), p. 17

Our blessed Redeemer brought more Glory to God in the Agonies of his Passion, than by all the Miracles and Ministry of his Life. In his dying he conquer’d Principalities and Powers, there he disarm’d Death of its Sting,…