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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.
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, Isa. 41. 10. is a sufficient Cordial to keep any Soul from fainting and sinking under any Distress whatsoever; therefore I hope, and trust, and believe, that the good God, who hath been so bountiful, so merciful, and so kind to me, to extend so many Favours to me, will also take pity of my fatherless Babes. With him the Fatherless find Mercy: Lord, I therefore commit them into thy Hands, as unto a faithful Creator and Redeemer, and beg that thou wouldst here guide them with thy Counsel, and afterwards receive them to Glory.
Sometimes when my Children have been taken very ill, so that there was no room for hope of Life, to outward Appearance, yet even then hath my good God supported me by some comfortable Portion of his Holy Word. Once one of my Children being given over, I was in great Perplexity ⟨p. 62⟩of Mind; that Place came to my Thoughts, Call on me in the day of Trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. I was extremely revived at the Consideration of that Place, for that was then a Time of Trouble to me: And then being encouraged, that if I called upon God he would deliver me, I did then, with firm Hopes and Confidence, rely upon my merciful God and Father, whom I have found ready to help and deliver me out of many Distresses. Blessed, and for ever blessed be his Name, who was pleased to hear the Cries and Groans of his poor, unworthy, undeserving, ill-deserving, and Hell-deserving Creature.