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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.
O then say not, All these things are against me; the price of these things is above Rubies. Well faith the sentence of the Ancient, O servum illum Beatum, cujus emendationi Deus instat, & cut dignatur (sic) Irasci.
O'then say not, All these things are against me; the price of these things is above Rubies. Well faith the sentence of the Ancient, O servum illum Beatum, cujus emendationi Deus instat, & cut dignatur (sic) Irasci.
III. The most High designs likewise by the Afflictions to promote your HEAVEN for ever more.
The Speech of the Apostle to this purpose is very Emphatical, 2 Cor. 4. 17. ⟨p. 36⟩Our light Affliction here, which is but for a Moment, works for us a far more Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory. O surprising connection! Light Afflictions work a Weight of Glory! Afflictions for a Moment work a Glory Eternal; and this Glory shall be a far more Exceeding Glory; or, as the Original intimates, a Glory which no Hyperbole upon Hyperbole can give a too Glorious Character of! Your Afflictions do prepare you for, tho' they do not purchase for you, the Glories of the World to come. The Hebrew word for Glory signifies the same that your own sense of Affliction feels, a Weighty thing. Well, from the one Weight you shall pass to the other. Your Crown of Thorns will shortly be turned into a Crown of Glory; a Weighty, a Massy, a never fading Crown. A Roman Emperor once rewarded one that wore an Iron Chain in a Prison for his sake, with a Golden Chain as heavy in a Preferment afterward: Such, and more than such at last will be thy Felicity. Art thou Afflicted? Be assured, —Dolor hic tibi proder it olim. After thy Sowing time in Tears, thou shalt have a Reaping time in Joy; after thy Bread of Adversity, thou shalt come to Eat of the Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God; after thy Water of Affliction, thou