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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.
In Rev. 2. 10. it is said, Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: Behold, the Devil shall cast some of you into Prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have Tribulation ten Days. Be thou faithful unto Death, and I will give thee a Crown of Life.
Doth God say, Fear none of those things which ye shall suffer? and yet shall I be overwhelmed, and dejected, and distracted, for fear of Troubles and Calamities? Here is mentioned the worst of Enemies, the Devil; he shall afflict some, and cast them into Prison; but at this we ought not to be terrified, for sometimes God doth it to try his poor People, and he doth permit them to be in Tribulation: but God limits the time, it is expressed here ten Days, that is a certain for an uncertain time; it implies but a short time: were it at our Adversary's, the Devil's Disposal, ⟨p. 92⟩we might be as many Years as here are mentioned Days, yea all our Life-time in continual Sorrow; but we are in the Hands of a merciful God: and though he see meet sometimes to scourge and try us, yet he will not let us be tempted beyond what he will enable us to bear; and for our Encouragement he hath said, If we be faithful to Death, he will graciously reward us. He that saith, Be thou faithful, make me faithful, and then I need not doubt but he will give me this Crown of Life: It is not, nor cannot be merited by us; it is the free Gift of God. Here are several Promises he hath graciously made to those that hold out to the end; as in ver. 7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.
Doth God say, Fear none of those things which ye shall suffer? and yet shall I be overwhelmed, and dejected, and distracted, for fear of Troubles and Calamities? Here is mentioned the worst of Enemies, the Devil; he shall afflict some, and cast them into Prison; but at this we ought not to be terrified, for sometimes God doth it to try his poor People, and he doth permit them to be in Tribulation: but God limits the time, it is expressed here ten Days, that is a certain for an uncertain time; it implies but a short time: were it at our Adversary's, the Devil's Disposal,