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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 sweet Influences which your Afflictions are like to have upon you, who can enough describe? If you lose a Joseph, or a Simeon, or a Benjamin, behold these are Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things, with which God will abundantly make up your loss. That very rule which the Lord has given us about the Nurture of our Children, He observes in the Discipline of his own; we are under our Heavenly Fathers executions ⟨p. 25⟩of that Rule, even then when the Death of our Children is the Affliction under which we labour, Prov. 23. 14. Thou shalt beat thy Child with the Rod, and shalt deliver his Soul from Hell. In this World you are like to be much the Wiser and much the Better for your Afflictions, and much the more Blessed for them in the other World for evermore. What? And are these things against you? God forbid you should imagine so.
The sweet Influences which your Afflictions are like to have upon you, who can enough describe? If you lose a Ioseph, or a Simeon, or a Benjamin, behold these are Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly things, with which God will abundantly make up your loss. That very rule which the Lord has given us about the Nurture of our Children, He observes in the Discipline of his own; we are under our Heavenly Fathers executions ⟨p. 25⟩of that Rule, even then when the Death of our Children is the Affliction under which we labour, Prov. 23. 14. Thou shalt beat thy Child with the Rod, and shalt deliver his Soul from Hell. In this World you are like to be much the Wiser and much the Better for your Afflictions, and much the more Blessed for them in the other World for evermore. What? And are these things against you? God forbid you should imagine so.
I. Those things which you conclude to be against you, are the things, by which the most High designs to promote your KNOWLEDGE.