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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.
Gen. XLII. 36. Me have ye bereaved of my CHILDREN; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not—all these things are AGAINST me.
THE common, but causeless mistake of Pious Men, under and about Afflictions, is represented in these Words; of which words the venerable Chrysostom in his Ancient Commentary on them, speaks truly, They are fit words to express the Relenting Bowels of a Parent; and yet we may without ill manners venture to add, The words do not altogether ⟨p. 2⟩so well become the Grace, the Faith, the Patience of a Christian.
In this Book of the Worlds Beginning, which contains an admirable Narrative of Transactions for above Three and twenty Hundred Years from the first Dawn of Time; the Revolutions which went over the Patriarch Jacob, are not the least spoken of by Moses, the Inspired Historian; and there are especially Three Travels of that renowned Man, which the History of his Life and Death is Elegantly woven into: The last of those Journeys was of near Two hundred Miles, namely from Canaan unto Goshen, occasioned by his Son Joseph's Advancement to be Vice-Roy of Egypt, and the Relief which that Honourable ViceRoy had provided against the sore Famine then raging in the Countries round about.
In this Book of the Worlds Beginning, which contains an admirable Narrative of Transactions for above Three and twenty Hundred Years from the first Dawn of Time; the Revolutions which went over the Patriarch Iacob, are not the least spoken of by Moses, the Inspired Historian; and there are especially Three Travels of that renowned Man, which the History of his Life and Death is Elegantly woven into: The last of those Journies was of near Two hundred Miles, namely from Canaan unto Goshen, occasioned by his Son Ioseph's Advancement to be Vice-Roy of Egypt, and the Relief which that Honourable ViceRoy had provided against the sore Famine then raging in the Countries round about.