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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.
2dly. Because that due Exercise of Sorrow under Affliction is very serviceable and beneficial to the Soul: (1.) To help spiritual Duties. Anima nunquam melius agit, ⟨p. 4⟩quam ex impetu insignis alicujus affectus: The Soul works best when it hath the Advantage of an Affection. When the Soul is made better by the Bitterness of Grief we feel, and the Soul maketh the Affection of Sorrow to be Vehiculum, a kind of a Chariot to carry on the Work of Repentance; Jer. 2. 19. Know and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. When the Iron is hot, if you strike in, you may get good; take the Advantage of your Hearts under your Sorrows.
2dly. Because that due Exercise of Sorrow under Affliction is very serviceable and beneficial to the Soul: (1.) To help spiritual Duties. Anima nunquam melius agit, ⟨p. 4⟩quam ex impetu insignis alicujus affectus: The Soul works best when it hath the Advantage of an Affection. When the Soul is made better by the Bitterness of Grief we feel, and the Soul maketh the Affection of Sorrow to be Vehiculum, a kind of a Chariot to carry on the Work of Repentance; Ier. 2. 19. Know and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. When the Iron is hot, if you strike in, you may get good; take the Advantage of your Hearts under your Sorrows.
3dly. To make it serious. Sorrows gather the Soul together, and make it more it self: A Man cometh to himself in his Grief. Usually God taketh this Course with his People; though they begin in the Flesh, they end in the Spirit. Sorrow maketh Reason to stand still. Solomon speaketh of bethinking themselves in the Land of their Afflictions, 1 Kings 8. 57