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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 Lord resolves to make you know more, First of HIMSELF: We have been miserably deficient in the knowledge of God, (we may say of our selves, as Paul of some) we may speak it unto our shame; Our Ignorance of God hath been the cause of ours Sins; Heu! Prima haec scelerum causa est mortalibus aegris Naturam nescire Dei— And our Knowledge of God will be the effect of our Sorrows for them: The Lord is carrying of you into the Clefts of a cragged Rock, and it is to make the Glory of his Attributes pass before you. When Job had gone through his weary Months, ⟨p. 27⟩he then said unto the Lord, as in Job. 42. 5. Now mine Eye sees thee! It is by Affliction that we are brought to see the Sovereignty of God, and to lie before him as Clay in the Hand of the Potter; to see the Righteousness of God, and to own that he punisheth us far less than our iniquities deserve; to see the Holiness of God, and to Reverence him as one that is of purer Eyes than to behold Evil; to see the Power of God, and to think, that nothing is too hard for the Lord; to see the Goodness of God, and to find him a rewarder of them that diligently seek him; in a word, a little more Affliction will bring thee to say, Lord, I know thy Name, and I will put my Trust in thee.
§. The Lord resolves to make you know more, First of HIMSELF: We have been miserably deficient in the knowledge of God, (we may say of our selves, as Paul of some) we may speak it unto our shame; Our Ignorance of God hath been the cause of ours Sins; Heu! Prima haec scelerum causa est mortalibus aegris Naturam nescire Dei— And our Knowledge of God will be the effect of our Sorrows for them: The Lord is carrying of you into the Clifts of a cragged Rock, and it is to make the Glory of his Attributes pass before you. When Iob had gone through his weary Months, ⟨p. 27⟩he then said unto the Lord, as in Iob. 42. 5. Now mine Eye sees thee! It is by Affliction that we are brought to see the Soveraignty of God, and to lie before him as Clay in the Hand of the Potter; to see the Righteousness of God, and to own that he punisheth us far less than our iniquities deserve; to see the Holiness of God, and to Reverence him as one that is of purer Eyes than to behold Evil; to see the Power of God, and to think, that nothing is too hard for the Lord; to see the Goodness of God, and to find him a rewarder of them that diligently seek him; in a word, a little more Affliction will bring thee to say, Lord, I know thy Name, and I will put my Trust in thee.