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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.
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. Jolly Persons are slight, never think upon any thing. Those that wallowed in Pleasures did put far away the Day of the Lord, Amos 6. 3. Till the Prodigal was tamed by outward Grief and Want, he never had Thoughts of returning. They that did not grieve when God struck them, Jer. 5. 3. refused to receive Correction. The more sorrowful the Mind is, the more serious. ⟨p. 5⟩Sorrow drieth up all those swimming Thoughts and pleasing Imaginations, by which Men drive away their Time, and divert their Care: and therefore there is a great deal of Benefit comes by it; it puts the Soul in an advantageous way of receiving Good.
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. Jolly Persons are slight, never think upon any thing. Those that wallowed in Pleasures did put far away the Day of the Lord, Amos 6. 3. Till the Prodigal was tamed by outward Grief and Want, he never had Thoughts of returning. They that did not grieve when God struck them, Ier. 5. 3. refused to receive Correction. The more sorrowful the Mind is, the more serious. ⟨p. 5⟩Sorrow drieth up all those swimming Thoughts and pleasing Imaginations, by which Men drive away their Time, and divert their Care: and therefore there is a great deal of Benefit comes by it; it puts the Soul in an advantagious way of receiving Good.