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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.
The General Case.
The more General Exhortation to be now Urged, is;
Let us under no Affliction whatsoever, be discomposed with any Apprehension, as if it were utterly Against us.
I am speaking to many Children of Jacob that are Children of Affliction; some of us are lamenting over our broken Estates, like Naomi, in Ruth 1. 21. saying, I was Full, but I am become Empty. Some of us are Lamenting over our blasted Credits, like David, in Psal. 69. 20. saying, Reproach ⟨p. 20⟩hath broken my Heart; and there are with us those who are Weeping over their Dead Children, like the distressed Women of Bethlehem, in Matth. 2. 18. Weeping for their Children, and not willing to be comforted, because they are not: And many more such Griefs are the minds of devout Persons among us Wounded with. That which Jacob sighed over his Joseph and Simeon, is by multitudes Mourned over their other Enjoyments also. An Ezekiel, as in