THE Ensuing Sermon, delivered in a Neighbour-Congregation, under Afflicting impressions from the sudden Death of an only Child, with a bestowal of some Correction and Enlargement since upon it; I know no fitter Person than Your self, to Present unto; Your Self, I say, Who have had several Infants carried hence unto the Father of Spirits, in the Chariot of the same Distemper that fetched mine away. Books or Thoughts on such a Subject as that which is handled here, have been often offered by me unto ⟨image 3⟩others, that were Mourners; and being made a Mourner my self, I thought it a fit occasion for me, to Write as well as Think more particularly, the things that may be serviceable to the sorrowful. Nor have I many Friends in this Evil World, whose Edification I can pursue with more Alacrity and Activity, by such pains as these, than Yours. I have often felt the Power, and almost as often the Sweetness of that persuasion, My God will never hurt me. Unto Your self, that I may recommend the entertainment of that Comfort and Cordial, under the Death of so many dear Children as you have been called unto the Resignation of, is the end of my putting these Meditations into your Hands. I cannot without some Affection read Gregory Nazianzen, in his Funeral Oration on the Death of his Brother, giving this account of his Aged and then Living Parents; My Father and Mother, (says he) who are both Lovers of their Children, but more Lovers of their Saviour, after they had in spite of all ⟨image 3⟩the Moths, and all the Thieves, and all the Devils too in this World, laid up in a better World, a Rich Inheritance for their Children, they have now sent one of their Sons before, to take Possession of it. If your Modesty and Humility will not permit me to recite this as a Character of, let me however propound it as an Employment for Your self, and your Virtuous Consort. You cannot use too much care to secure unto your Children an Inheritance among the Saints in Light; and for those which are departed, you may be joyfully assured, That they are made partakers of that Inheritance. What further possession of this Waste Wild America, the Lord Jesus may take yet before the Time of the Restitution of all things, we cannot Positively say; only we may probably hope, that he has a Glorious Interest shortly to be erected and maintained in these utmost parts of the Earth.
THE Ensuing Sermon, delivered in a Neighbour-Congregation, under Afflicting impressions from the sudden Death of an only Child, with a bestowal of some Correction and Enlargement since upon it; I know no fitter Person than Your self, to Present unto; Your Self, I say, Who have had several Infants carried hence unto the Father of Spirits, in the Chariot of the same Distemper that fetched mine away. Books or Thoughts on such a Subject as that which is handled here, have been often offered by me unto ⟨image 3⟩others, that were Mourners; and being made a Mourner my self, I thought it a fit occasion for me, to Write as well as Think more particularly, the things that may be serviceable to the sorrowful. Nor have I many Friends in this Evil World, whose Edification I can pursue with more Alacrity and Activity, by such pains as these, than Yours. I have often felt the Power, and almost as often the Sweetness of that perswasion, My God will never hurt me. Vnto Your self, that I may recommend the entertainment of that Comfort and Co•dial, under the Death of so many dear Children as you have been call'd unto the Resignation of, is the end of my putting these Meditations into your Hands. I cannot without some Affection read Gregory Nazianzen, in his Funeral Oration on the Death of his Brother, giving this account of his Aged and then Living Parents; My Father and Mother, (says he) who are both Lovers of their Children, but more Lovers of their Saviour, after they had in spite of all ⟨image 3⟩the Moths, and all the Thieves, and all the Devils too in this World, laid up in a better World, a Rich Inheritance for their Children, they have now sent one of their Sons before, to take Possession of it. If your Modesty and Humility will not permit me to recite this as a Charecter of, let me however propound it as an Employment for Your self, and your Virtuous Consort. You cannot use too much care to secure unto your Children an Inheritance among the Saints in Light; and for those which are departed, you may be joyfully assured, That they are made partakers of that Inheritance. What further possession of this Waste Wild America, the Lord Iesus may take yet before the Time of the Restitution of all things, we cannot Positively say; only we may probably hope, that he has a Glorious Interest shortly to be erected and maintained in these utmost parts of the Earth.
