Preached at the funeral of a Mr. William Strong, Puritan theologian Obadiah Sedgwick expounds on 2 Kings 2:1–11. Sedgwick focuses on Elisha’s grief upon Elijah’s translation. His sermon is both a moving eulogy and clear window into Puritan teaching on death and heaven.
For more by Obadiah Sedgwick, see Text and Transmission: An Empirical Model for the Literary Development of Old Testament Narratives.