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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
A Funeral Sermon. › Doct. I. God requireth and alloweth some Sorrow: They that weep.
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.
I shall, 1st. show you that God doth so. 2dly. Show you what this Sorrow is.
I shall, 1st. shew you that God doth so. 2dly. Shew you what this Sorrow is.
1. To prove that so it is, I will not stand to instance Places of Scripture in a Point so familiar.
The Reasons are;
1st. This is the End why we have Affections, that they may be exercised in their Season. God hath planted in every Man Affections suitable to every Condition in which he placeth him. It is said, the Stars in their Order fought against Sisera; so Affections. We have Joy for Prosperity, ⟨p. 3⟩Sorrow for Adversity. What did God mean, to give us such contrary Affections, if not that they should be acted in their Order and Time? that these Affections should, like the Spokes, turn with the Wheel of Providence? And therefore God complaineth much, as if he were frustrated of his End, when we do not answer Providence by an Exercise of those Affections that are suitable to it; as