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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.
PAPER I.
I Hope I have avouched the Lord to be my God, and resolve to walk in his Ways, and to keep his Statutes, and his Commandments, and his Judgments, and to hearken unto his Voice. And I humbly implore, that the Lord would avouch me to be one of his peculiar People, and that he would enable me to keep all his Commandments. I often question whether I have any Interest in the Eternal God, or whether he will own me as one of his; but, Lord! I humbly say, I have and do avouch thee to be my only God and Saviour; (O cast me not off!) and I earnestly beg Grace to walk in thy Ways. Help me to keep thy Statutes continually: Let me not dare to offend thee: O that I might never provoke thee my good God to be angry or displeased with me! but let me, O Lord, be a Doer of thy Commandments, that so I may have Right to the Tree of Life: Lord, I have no Right, I can plead no Right, I fall infinitely short of my Duty; but have not I a blessed Saviour to plead for me, who died for the Chief of Sinners? and he hath promised that ⟨p. 35⟩none that come to him, he will in any wise cast out. I know he is able to save to the uttermost, all those that come to God through him: in his prevailing Name, and for his sake I implore Divine Assistance to enable me to persevere and hold out to the end, that at the last I may enter in through the Gates into the City, into the Heavenly Jerusalem, where the Saints, and Angels, and Cherubims, and Seraphims are continually singing Hallelujahs to their King, Holy, Holy, Holy Lord. I acknowledge my Unfitness, my Unworthiness for this great inexpressible, inconceivable Privilege: but though I am unworthy, if thou my God wilt count me worthy through the Merits of my dear Saviour, I shall have Cause for ever to bless thy Name in the highest Heavens, World without End. Though I have no Right, if thou wilt give me Right to those Treasures and Pleasures which are at thy right Hand for evermore, this will be Matter of Thankfulness to Eternity. Give me some Hopes that I have an Interest in these invisible things, by my Care to please thee, and my Fear to offend thee; by my unfeigned Respect to all thy Holy, Righteous, and Just Commandments, and by my hearkening to thy Voice, the Voice of thy Word, and the Voice of thy Rod. Thy Dealings are variously dispensed towards