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Did I take delight in conversing with them, and now that delight is ceased and gone, should not I improve this disappointment, in seeking, and endeavouring after, and labouring for more Communion with God? And if I cannot find this Affliction sanctified to me, should not I sorrow less for the loss of my Relation, and cease mourning so much as I am a Man, and turn my mourning into sorrowing far want of an holy Improvement of my loss, and at lost begin to sorrow as a Christian man in this case should sorrow.

5. When you sorrow more for their Death, than that you are yet so much unprepared for your own. And that you have improved your time, and means of Grace no more, to get ⟨p. 81⟩ready for Death, and Judgment after Death, and Heaven after Judgment? Your Father or Mother, Husband or Wife, died with well-grounded hopes of Heaven, on their Dying-bed conquered the Fears of Death, and rejoiced in the hope of the Glory of God; expressed their thankfulness to God, that they had had that Communion with God, the experience whereof did so much then delight them, that they would not have been without for all the Riches of the World. And you are yet under doubts and fears; afraid to think of Death, because you do not know whether then you shall be damned or saved; because you cannot tell whether you have believed or repented, and yet you sorrow for them, as men, go sorrow, because of your own Fears and Dangers you are in.

5. When you sorrow more for their Death, than that you are yet so much unprepared for your own. And that you have improved your time, and means of Grace no more, to get ⟨p. 81⟩ready for Death, and Judgment after Death, and Heaven after Judgment? Your Father or Mother, Husband or Wife, died with well-grounded hopes of Heaven, on their Dying-bed conquered the Fears of Death, and rejoyced in the hope of the Glory of God; expressed their thankfulness to God, that they had had that Communion with God, the experience whereof did so much then delight them, that they would not have been without for all the Riches of the World. And you are yet under doubts and fears; afraid to think of Death, because you do not know whether then you shall be damned or saved; because you cannot tell whether you have believed or repented, and yet you sorrow for them, as men, go sorrow, because of your own Fears and Dangers you are in.