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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 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 ⟨p. 97⟩as he hath overcome, and is set down with his Father. Our Saviour indeed did the whole Will of his Father, and overcame all the Hardships and Difficulties that he met with, in accomplishing his Father's good Pleasure. He was despised of Men, he was spit upon, he was mocked and buffeted, and at last crucified; and yet how meekly did he submit to all this! We find him in his greatest Agonies saying, Not my Will, but thine be done; and, the Cup that my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? And shall I dispute his Will and Pleasure? Our Saviour he endured the Cross, despised the Shame, and is now set down at the right Hand of the Throne of God. He bore all the various Difficulties, he passed through here with an invincible Courage and Constancy; and now we are assured that he is set down on the Throne of God, and hath promised that those that are true Followers of him, shall in due time inherit Eternal Life, and shall sit down with him on the Throne of God, as certainly as he is already set down with his Father.
Who would grudg 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 conferr'd 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