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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.
I was not a little comforted and refreshed also by the last Verse of that Psalm, which saith, Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the Days of my Life, and I will dwell in the House of the Lord for ever. I am sure Goodness and Mercy have followed me to this very Day, therefore I will not distrust the merciful Kindness of God to me to my Life's End. But if I should be stripped of earthly Blessings, I beg I may have the Liberty of God's House here, and the Happiness of dwelling with him for ever hereafter: If I should with Lazarus be clothed with Rags, and fed with Crumbs, all my Days; if my Body should be full of Sores, yet if God will own me, and approve me, and at Death receive me to himself, I may with tolerable Patience bear the Inconveniences of my Pilgrimage-state, knowing that they will not last long.
I was not a little comforted and refreshed also by the last Verse of that Psalm, which saith, Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the Days of my Life, and I will dwell in the House of the Lord for ever. I am sure Goodness and Mercy have followed me to this very Day, therefore I will not distrust the merciful Kindness of God to me to my Life's End. But if I should be stripp'd of earthly Blessings, I beg I may have the Liberty of God's House here, and the Happiness of dwelling with him for ever hereafter: If I should with Lazarus be clothed with Rags, and fed with Crumbs, all my Days; if my Body should be full of Sores, yet if God will own me, and approve me, and at Death receive me to himself, I may with tolerable Patience bear the Inconveniencies of my Pilgrimage-state, knowing that they will not last long.
And that I may with the more Confidence cast my poor fatherless Children upon ⟨p. 61⟩God, I will call to mind those Places that did quiet me under the Loss of my dear, and loving, and tender Father, which were these; that God was pleased to promise to be a Father to the Fatherless; and that when Father and Mother forsake, then the Lord would take them up. God hath bidden poor Creatures to cast their Burden upon him, assuring them, that he takes Care of them, and sustains them. And the forementioned Place,