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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, Fourthly, of YOUR SELVES. The Golden Rule, Know thy self, is that which our God will have us Learn, while we feel his Rod. A Wound will convince an ⟨p. 31⟩Emperor that he is a Man. It was said unto Israel in Deut. 8. 2. The Lord Humbled them, that what was in their Hearts might be known: God will have us to see our own Follies and be Ashamed. God will have us to see our own Graces and be Refreshed; and in the Furnace of Affliction we must undergo a Fiery Trial in order thereunto. Scilicet ut Fulvum spectatur in Ignibus Aurum— Under Affliction, as God will bring you to say of your selves, I have perverted that which is Right, so he will find occasion for you to hear him saying to you, Now I know that thou fearest me.
§ The Lord resolves to make you know more, Fourthly, of YOUR SELVES. The Golden Rule, Know thy self, is that which our God will have us Learn, while we feel his Rod. A Wound will convince an ⟨p. 31⟩Emperour that he is a Man. It was said unto Israel in Deut. 8. 2. The Lord Humbled them, that what was in their Hearts might be known: God will have us to see our own Follies and be Ashamed. God will have us to see our own Graces and be Refreshed; and in the Furnace of Affliction we must undergo a Fiery Tryal in order thereunto. Scilicet ut Fulvum spectatur in Ignibus Aurum— Under Affliction, as God will bring you to say of your selves, I have perverted that which is Right, so he will find occasion for you to hear him saying to you, Now I know that thou fearest me.
§. But where shall I stop? About the advancements of Sight procured by Affliction, I may say as about the Instances of Faith, it is said by the Apostle, The time would fail me to mention them: Yet let me briefly add; By the Afflictions whereof you complain, God will bring you to Know what SIN is. You that formerly counted Stolen Waters are Sweet, shall now see Sin in a truer uglier dress; you shall see that it is as in