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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
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It being thought necessary to make some particular (though short) mention of the Party, on the account of whose Death this Sermon and Papers are published; it naturally follows from a Principle of Gratitude, Honour and Justice that's due to the dear and precious Memory of Mr. Terry's first Wife, to take notice also of some of those endearing Qualifications that were very conspicuous in her. The less indeed will be said of either, because what is related of the one is so applicable in all respects to the other.
It being thought necessary to make some particular (though short) mention of the Party, on the account of whose Death this Sermon and Papers are published; it naturally follows from a Principle of Gratitude, Honour and Iustice that's due to the dear and precious Memory of Mr. Terry's first VVife, to take notice also of some of those indearing Qualifications that were very conspicuous in her. The less indeed will be said of either, because what is related of the one is so applicable in all respects to the other.
IT is no small part of the Honour that's due to her Memory that she was a Daughter of that excellent Divine Dr. Thomas Manton, and bestowed in Marriage to Mr. Terry, by his peculiar Choice, out of that most kind and cordial Respect that he had for him. She was, as to her Person, very lovely, of most curious and excellent Parts, of a ready and quick Wit, and good Understanding, and such ⟨p. viii⟩a transcendent Sweetness of Temper, joined with true Religiousness, that she was highly valued and esteemed by all that knew her. In all relations she answered her pious Education, as a Child, a Mother, and Wife, never any went beyond her. It hath been often said, that she was made up of Love, which Character she fully answered: She had Love sufficient for ten good Wives; it's impossible for any in that Relation, to express more than she did to her dear Husband, (who was, as to her, the Life of all her other Comforts) and this expressed not with childish Fondness, but with Prudence and Discretion. To the Day of her Death she would say, that her Love was still increasing, and she found that every Day she loved him more and more.