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Secondly; ¹It is a word of comfort in reference to the Saints departed, our precious Relations; the sense of whose loss and absence we are not able to bear, while we think of them as smothered, and extinguished in their own ashes, silent in the land of forgetfulness, in whose sweet converse, we were wont to solace our selves with much delight, their souls having left the habitation of their bodies, and their bodies resolved into dust, and that dust (possibly) mixed with the dust of wicked men, or of the brute Creatures, it may be, dispersed into the remotest part of the world. Ah these be some of the heart-dividing thoughts, wherewith we do afflict our Souls! But give check to your passions, Oh ye mourners of hope, and make use of the Cordials which your Heavenly Physician hath prescribed to keep you from fainting. Remember, that although their bodies are in the Grave, their Souls are with the Spirits of just men made perfect, beholding the face of their Father, which is in Heaven, from whence Jesus Christ, Godman, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, attended with all his mighty Angels, will bring them with him.

Secondly; ¹It is a word of comfort in reference to the Saints departed, our precious Relations; the sense of whose loss and absence we are not able to bear, while we think of them as smothered, and extinguisht in their own ashes, silent in the land of forgetfulness, in whose sweet converse, we were wont to solace our selves with much delight, their souls having left the habitation of their bodies, and their bodies resolved into dust, and that dust (possibly) mixt with the dust of wicked men, or of the brute Creatures, it may be, dispersed into the remotest part of the world. Ah these be some of the heart-dividing thoughts, wherewith we do afflict our Souls! But give check to your passions, Oh ye mourners of hope, and make use of the Cordials which your Heavenly Physitian hath prescribed to keep you from fainting. Remember, that although their bodies are in the Grave, their Souls are with the Spirits of just men made perfect, beholding the face of their Father, which is in Heaven, from whence Jesus Christ, Godman, when he shall come in the glory of his Father, attended with all his mighty Angels, will bring them with him.

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