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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 VI.
I Am willing to recount some of those many Mercies God hath been pleased to bestow upon me, to excite my Self to Thankfulness, and to encourage me still to trust in, and wait upon that good God, who hath bestowed so many Mercies upon me, the least of which I am altogether unworthy of. I may say with David, While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing Praises to my God while I have any Being; to that God who hath bestowed my Life, Health, my Strength, my Memory, my Reason, my Understanding, and all the Blessings of this Life upon me, and hath, through Grace, given me Hopes of dwelling with himself in Glory, when this miserable Life shall be ended. O my Soul, ⟨p. 56⟩praise thou the Lord; O give Thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his Mercy endureth for ever. Remember the Goodness of God to thee, from the very Womb to this very Day; nay, before thou hadst a Being in this World, God was pleased to form thee, and write all thy Members in a Book; or else what an imperfect Creature might I have been, if there had been an Eye, or an Ear, or any part wanting? O that I could be truly thankful for these Mercies! I desire with Thankfulness to remember the Dealing of God to me in my Infancy and Childhood: How many Dangers and Accidents have I been liable and exposed to, and yet God hath been pleased to take Care of me, and preserved me from innumerable Mischiefs that have compassed me about? I look upon it as no small Blessing, that I was born of Christian, Religious, and Pious Parents, such as did truly fear God, and did what in them lay to instruct their Posterity in early Piety: they were those that frequently addressed themselves to the Throne of Grace, the Benefit of whose Prayers I hope to reap, both in Life and Death. I desire with Thankfulness to own the Goodness of God in taking Care of me, and providing for me when I was left motherless in my tender Age, when I was uncapable of minding my self; ⟨p. 57⟩