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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 Third Counsel which you are to follow, is declared in
Job 34. 31. Surely, it is meet to be said unto God, I have born Chastisement, I will not offend any more.
Repentance of Sin should be the effect of Affliction on Men. The End of every Affliction in Sum, is the same that the End of every Mercy is; we may say of it, as in Rom. 2. 4. O man, it leads thee to Repentance. God spoke by his Ten Judgments unto Egypt, as well as by his Ten Commandments unto Israel. Every Affliction cries this in our Ears, O Repent, Reform, Return to him that Smites thee. We read of a gracious person, who upon having a Child taken away by Death, said in 1 King. 17. 18. My sins are brought unto Remembrance. This is that which perhaps all thy Sickness, all thy Reproach, all thy Poverty, and all thy Bereavements are sent upon; God would have thee to remember some Sin with Grief and Shame, ⟨p. 42⟩and Wherein thou hast done Iniquity, to do it no more. It was a black brand set upon a bad Man, in 2 Chron. 28. 22