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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.
1. A Concession. He grants them some kind of Sorrow and Grief.
2. A Correction. He moderateth it.
1. He grants them some kind of Sorrow, in that he puts Weeping for Adversity; the Affection for the Condition; the Effects for the Cause; as allowing them an holy Sensibleness of their Misery, they that weep. Then he correcteth and moderateth this Sorrow, as if they wept not, because he will not trust such a dangerous Weapon in their own Hands, and leave the Corinthians to the Vileness and Waywardness of ⟨p. 2⟩their own Affections; though I allow you to weep, yet 'tis as if you wept not.
The Points are two.