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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 as I trust Christ died for me, so let thy Holy Spirit live and reign in me. Let me be guided, directed, counselled, comforted, strengthened, and supported, the remaining part of my Days, that whether they be few or many, they may be so spent, that when I come to lie upon a sick and Death-bed, I may lift up my Head with Joy unspeakable, hoping my Redemption draws nigh. In my last Agonies be not thou far from me; thou art now (and I am sure wilt be then) my only Hope, therefore be not a Terror unto me. Let me then find that the Eternal God is my Refuge, and that underneath are his everlasting Arms. I do expect to have my Flesh and my Heart (within a little while) to fail me; but Lord, be thou the Strength of my Heart and my Portion for ever. Lord, I hope I have chosen thee (long ago) for my Portion, and am resolved by thy Grace enabling me, to stick to my Choice; therefore be thou pleased to be with me in my sorest Conflict, at the Hour of Death, and in the Day of Judgment. Let me not then be left by thee, or forsaken and rejected by thee the Great Judg of all the World, whose irreversible dreadful Sentence will ere long be passed ⟨p. 86⟩upon all those that forget and neglect thee; in which Number I beg I may not be found.
And as I trust Christ died for me, so let thy Holy Spirit live and reign in me. Let me be guided, directed, counselled, comforted, strengthned, and supported, the remaining part of my Days, that whether they be few or many, they may be so spent, that when I come to lie upon a sick and Death-bed, I may lift up my Head with Joy unspeakable, hoping my Redemption draws nigh. In my last Agonies be not thou far from me; thou art now (and I am sure wilt be then) my only Hope, therefore be not a Terror unto me. Let me then find that the Eternal God is my Refuge, and that underneath are his everlasting Arms. I do expect to have my Flesh and my Heart (within a little while) to fail me; but Lord, be thou the Strength of my Heart and my Portion for ever. Lord, I hope I have chosen thee (long ago) for my Portion, and am resolved by thy Grace enabling me, to stick to my Choice; therefore be thou pleased to be with me in my sorest Conflict, at the Hour of Death, and in the Day of Judgment. Let me not then be left by thee, or forsaken and rejected by thee the Great Judg of all the World, whose irreversable dreadful Sentence will e'r long be pass'd ⟨p. 86⟩upon all those that forget and neglect thee; in which Number I beg I may not be found.