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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 PREFACE.
READER;
THAT which occasioned this Discourse and Preface, is a late Stroke of Providence, in translating a Daughter of Abraham from hence to Abraham's Bosom, where she now rests in the delightful Expectations of her full Resurrection unto Life Eternal. She was a Person whom I well knew, and greatly valued, and that I did discern by free and frequent Conversation with her, Treasures of Knowledge and Grace richly abiding in her; and with great Judgment and Savour pertinently brought forth by her, in order to her fuller Satisfaction and Edification in what concerned her Soul, as to its Duty whilst embodied, and its full Bliss when it was to be removed ⟨p. iv⟩hence. She ever was concerned to know her Duty, and the true Matter, Grounds and Usefulness of her Christian Hope, in order to the effectual influencing of her concerned Spirit in her determined Services and Station. She ever was solicitous to know her Work, and to discharge her Trust as a Christian, and answerably to her Relations and Family, wherein she behaved her self not as without Law to God, but as under Law to Christ; and so deported her self with true and commendable Exemplariness as a Wife, a Mother, and a Mistress, and as one full of Thoughts and Care therein to abide with God, and to approve her self to him in his own solemn Day of Judgment. She was a Person of great Exercises through the tedious Urgencies of her long and many bodily Infirmities, which she bore with Patience, and providently improved unto the great Advantage of her better Part. She would not suffer Sense to sit in Judgment upon Providence, but fetched her Measures of God's dealing with her from that Faith, and from those Thoughts which took their Directory