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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.
When my dear Husband hath met with many Losses and Crosses, I have been apt ⟨p. 59⟩to be desponding and cast down; but God hath mercifully composed me by the Consideration of Matth. 6. 25, 26, &c. There I see that God clothes the Grass, and feeds the Fowls, and hath bidden poor Creatures not to be anxious for these outward things, assuring us, that our Heavenly Father knoweth we have need of these things, and that he will graciously supply the Wants of those that seek to him. Phil. 4. 6. He hath bidden me to be careful for nothing, but in every thing by Prayer and Supplication, with Thanksgiving, to let my Request be made known unto him: and God hath encouraged poor Souls to cast their Care on him, letting them know he careth for them. What should I go to for Comfort, if I had not the Word of the Eternal God to fly to? It would be endless to reckon up the thousand Parts of those refreshing, comforting, and quickening Places that are to be had in the Word of God, to comfort poor disconsolate Souls in all Conditions of Life: and it ought to be took notice of how God is pleased to suit them to our present Conditions of Life. I was once so perplexed with groundless Fears of Troubles, that I was for some time unfit for any thing; but my good God was pleased to fix upon my Mind Psal 23. 1. ⟨p. 60⟩The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. There was then no room left for any tormenting Fears, but they all vanished away at the Consideration of the Happiness of those that have so careful a Shepherd. It is my earnest Request that God will own me as one of his Flock, however he deal with me as to worldly Matters.
When my dear Husband hath met with many Losses and Crosses, I have been apt ⟨p. 59⟩to be desponding and cast down; but God hath mercifully composed me by the Consideration of Matth. 6. 25, 26, &c. There I see that God clothes the Grass, and feeds the Fowls, and hath bidden poor Creatures not to be anxious for these outward things, assuring us, that our Heavenly Father knoweth we have need of these things, and that he will graciously supply the Wants of those that seek to him.