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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.
Proposition II.
The people of God are apt very frequently to conclude, that the Afflictive Dispensations of the most High towards them, are very highly to their prejudice.
From the embittered Heart of a Jacob in his exercises, there is often sobbed that ⟨p. 11⟩melancholy Groan, All these things are against me. Alas! under Affliction we can usually speak no other Language but that in Lam. 3. 1. I have seen Affliction by the Rod of Gods wrath; we see nothing but Wrath and Curse, and fiery Vengeance dispensed unto us in our Bitter things.
From the embittered Heart of a Iacob in his exercises, there is often sob'd that ⟨p. 11⟩melancholy Groan, All these things are against me. Alas! under Affliction we can usually speak no other Language but that in Lam. 3. 1. I have seen Affliction by the Rod of Gods wrath; we see nothing but Wrath and Curse, and fiery Vengeance dispensed unto us in our Bitter things.