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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.
Who would not strive to overcome, that at last he may be admitted into the Paradise of God, where he shall eat of the Tree of Life, and then shall hunger and thirst no more, but shall be happy in the Enjoyment of God and the Lamb, to all Eternity?
Who would not strive to overcome, that at last he may be admitted into the Paradise of God, where he shall eat of the Tree of Life, and then shall hunger and thirst no more, but shall be happy in the Injoyment of God and the Lamb, to all Eternity?
Ver. 11. He that overcometh, shall not be hurt of the Second Death. What a comfortable Promise is this! The First Death is nothing in comparison of the Second: What's Death Temporal, if compared to ⟨p. 93⟩Death Eternal? When we die, we are deprived of earthly Friends, and earthly Comforts; but if the Second Death hath Dominion over us, then there is an eternal Banishment from the comfortable Presence of God, and an eternal Separation between God and the poor Soul, (which is Hell it self.) O Lord, give me Grace that I may so fight, strive, run and conquer, and at last overcome, that I may not be hurt of the Second Death.
Ver. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white Stone, and in the Stone a new Name written, which no Man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it. This is an unspeakable Privilege indeed, to have the Bread of Life: This hidden Manna, it is hidden from the World, and given only to those who through Faith and Patience lay hold on eternal Life. How happy are those that have the White Stone of Absolution, and have in it a new Name written? Once indeed they were Children of Darkness, Children of this World; but now, through Grace, they are made Children of Light, they have the Image of God impressed upon their Souls; and though the World know it not, yet the Persons that receive this inestimable Privilege, find (at least sometimes) a Change