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Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long…
Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long since preached / by the late Reverend Dr. Thomas Manton ... And now occasionally published on the much lamented death of Mrs. Ann Terry, who died the 9th of November, 1693. With a short account of some passages of her life, and papers left under her own hand.Advice to mourners under the loss of dear relations in a funeral sermon long since preach'd / by the late Reverand Dr. Thomas Manton ... And now occasionally published on the much lamented death of Mrs. Ann Terry, who died the 9th of November, 1693. With a short account of some passages of her life, and papers left under her own hand.
London: printed by J.D. for Jonathon Robinson, 1694
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.
1st. Consider, you may have a Season when it will be necessary for you. Who knoweth what a Day may bring forth? The Woman that entertained the Prophet, he would fain do her good; no, saith she, 2 Kings 4. 13. I dwell among mine own People. But now that very Woman, as in 2 Kings 8. 5. She cried to the King for her House, and her Land: she that did not stand in need of the Prophet, stood in need of the Prophet's Man. You have your Wife, your Children and Friends about you; O there may a time come when you will be glad of one Drop of this Comfort to support you when they are gone.
2dly. Consider, when it is upon you, you will find it the hardest thing in the World truly to assuage your Grief, to grieve so as if you did not grieve. Afflictions are ⟨p. 31⟩evil, and we are apt to make them worse, to turn Wormwood into Poison: Heb. 12. 11. No chastening for the present but will seem grievous. Seneca could slightly speak of Miseries when he had the Use of rich Gardens about Rome; but when he had lost all, he was as much to seek as others.
2dly. Consider, when it is upon you, you will find it the hardest thing in the World truly to asswage your Grief, to grieve so as if you did not grieve. Afflictions are ⟨p. 31⟩evil, and we are apt to make them worse, to turn Wormwood into Poison: Heb. 12. 11. No chastening for the present but will seem grievous. Seneca could slightly speak of Miseries when he had the Use of rich Gardens about Rome; but when he had lost all, he was as much to seek as others.