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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.
The Question being propounded by poor doubting Souls thus, How shall we know whether God be our God? Answ. Why, do you love him as your chiefest Good? Do you seek his Glory as your utmost End? Do you obey him as your highest Lord and Law-giver? and do you depend on him as your Paymaster and Benefactor? But if all this will not help you to judg your Hearts, there are but two things will give you Comfort, and those are your Choice and your Resignation: Do you choose God for your Portion? Though you cannot say God has chosen you, and that he is yours, yet you will choose him: Do you by an Holy importunate Faith thus fasten your selves upon God, and say, Lord, if thou wilt not honour me, love me, bless me as thine, for I am resolved to be thine; and if I perish, one must perish that desires to be thine. And this she would often repeat.
The Question being propounded by poor doubting Souls thus, How shall we know whether God be our God? Answ. Why, do you love him as your chiefest Good? Do you seek his Glory as your utmost End? Do you obey him as your highest Lord and Law-giver? and do you depend on him as your Paymaster and Benefactor? But if all this will not help you to judg your Hearts, there are but two things will give you Comfort, and those are your Choice and your Resignation: Do you chuse God for your Portion? Though you cannot say God has chosen you, and that he is yours, yet you will chuse him: Do you by an Holy importunate Faith thus fasten your selves upon God, and say, Lord, if thou wilt not honour me, love me, bless me as thine, for I am resolved to be thine; and if I perish, one must perish that desires to be thine. And this she would often repeat.
The Night before she died, her Husband earnestly and humbly besought the Lord, that he would graciously be pleased to give her some comfortable Manifestations of his Love to her poor Soul, (O let it never be forgotten, the gracious Condescension of God to his unworthy Creature.) The next Morning her faithful and loving Servant (who attended her in all her Illness) brought him Word that now the Case was altered with her Mistress; she was now reconciled to the Thoughts of Death, and was refreshed with the Sense of God's Love, and desired to have no more Cordials given her, she had better Comforts to refresh her Soul. This was on the Lord's Day in the Morning. She spake not much after, but lay in a quiet composed Frame of Spirit, softly groaning under the Pains of Death, that made his nearer Approach to her every Hour: but even then when she heard her Husband speak to her, she would answer with a very pleasing and cheerful Voice.