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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.
To be a Pillar in God's Temple is an high Honour, it is a fixed Place; no danger of being removed, if once set there: and God will write his Name upon it, and own it for his own, and engrave the Name of the City Jerusalem which is above, as a Token that they are Denizens and Inhabitants ⟨p. 96⟩of the New Jerusalem, and then the Lord will write upon him a new Name. The Lord knows them that are his, he distinguisheth them from the rest of the World: Happy are those that be in such a Case: Blessed are those whom God hath chosen to be a Pillar in his Temple.
To be a Pillar in God's Temple is an high Honour, it is a fixed Place; no danger of being removed, if once set there: and God will write his Name upon it, and own it for his own, and ingrave the Name of the City Ierusalem which is above, as a Token that they are Denisons and Inhabitants ⟨p. 96⟩of the New Ierusalem, and then the Lord will write upon him a new Name. The Lord knows them that are his, he distinguisheth them from the rest of the World: Happy are those that be in such a Case: Blessed are those whom God hath chosen to be a Pillar in his Temple.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my Throne, even as I also overcame, and am sat down with my Father on his Throne.
Who would grudge at a little Pains, and Labour, and Difficulties, if at last he may overcome his Spiritual Enemies? Here's a gracious Promise that our blessed Saviour makes, that if we do overcome, (though it must be by his Grace, his Strength and Assistance) he will grant us to sit with him on his Throne. What an Honour is this to be conferred upon poor Mortals? What, to sit with Christ and his Holy Angels upon a Throne! Well may we say with the Apostle, Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, what God hath prepared for those that love him. If we do overcome a few Difficulties, and deny our selves some small things for Christ's sake, will he thus amply reward us, by admitting us to be Sharers with him in the Glories of Heaven? He hath said it, and his Word shall stand, that if we overcome we shall sit with him, even