A50157:107
Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men…
Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charles-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.
London: printed by James Astwood, 1689
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let not the loss of Children particularly, as a thing Against us, cause in us any irregular Discomposures.
The loss of Children, did I say? Nay, let me recall so harsh a Word; the Catachresis is a little too hard for the Language of a Christian. The Children which we count Lost, are not so. The Death of our Children is not the Loss of our Children; when all the Losses of Job were made up with Doublings, yet the Number of his Children need not be doubled, in the Restoration. ⟨p. 47⟩Our Children are not Lost, but given back, they are not Lost, but sent before. In such a Dialect have the Sager Heathen sometimes talked of this Affliction; and shall the professors of Christianity, with bitter Groans enter this among their Losses, My Children are Dead! O tell it not at Athens, publish it not at Rome; lest the Heathen Philosophers hiss at our weakness, at our Folly!
The loss of Children, did I say? Nay, let me recal so harsh a Word; the Catachresis is a little too hard for the Language of a Christian. The Children which we count Lost, are not so. The Death of our Children is not the Loss of our Children; when all the Losses of Iob were made up with Doublings, yet the Number of his Children need not be doubled, in the Restoration. ⟨p. 47⟩Our Children are not Lost, but given back, they are not Lost, but sent before. In such a Dialect have the Sager Heathen sometimes talked of this Affliction; and shall the professors of Christianity, with bitter Groans enter this among their Losses, My Children are Dead! O tell it not at Athens, publish it not at Rome; lest the Heathen Philosophers hiss at our weakness, at our Folly!