A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

He animadverts upon the aptness of Parents to quarrel with any circumstances of a Son's death; be th•y what they will, If he die abroad, ⟨p. 20⟩then the aggravation is, that neither the Father nor the Mother, had Opportunity to close his Eyes; If at home, then, how is he plucked away, even out of our Hands!

He animadverts upon the aptnes• of Parents to quarrel with any circumstanc•s of a Son's death; be th•y what they will, If he die abroad, ⟨p. 20⟩then the aggravation is, that neither the Father nor the Mother, had Opportunity to close his Eyes; If at home, then, how is he pluck'd away, even out of our Hands!

He gives divers memorable instances, of sundry great Persons, bearing with strange composure of Mind, the same kind of Affliction. I omit what he wrote to his Wife on their loss of a Child. As also to recite many, very instructive Passages, out of Seneca writing to Marcia, on the same account, viz. by way of Consolation, for her loss of a Son, and to Helvia, for her loss in the same kind. To Polybius, having lost a near Relation, &c.

But we have the Oracles of God, and do, too commonly, less need to receive Instruction from Heathens, than deserve to be reproached by them. That ⟨p. 21⟩there is so frequent Cause for the Complaint of that ancient Worthy in the Christian Church.