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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.
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4thly. This would double the Affliction, not to grieve for such things as nearly touch us. To break the Bent and Course of Nature is dangerous. Affections, when strongly stirred, must have their Exercise, for fear of greater Harms. It is an Ease sometimes to mourn: Strangled Grief chokes the Heart: 1 Sam. 25. 37. Nabal's Heart became as a Stone within him, when he heard Tidings that mightily affected him; it had been better he had wept and mourned. As Chirurgeons first let the Sore soften, before they begin to draw it. Job 2. 13. Job's Friends said not a Word to him the first seven Days, for they saw that his Grief was great: They let Sorrow have its Course for a while. Stop Floods in their full Career, and they rage and swell. When the Death of a near Friend hath opened the Sluices, let the Waters play a little in the Channel, till it be calmer. Passions spend and tire themselves in their Exercise. Grief is sometimes eased by the Expression of it. There is Reason too for ⟨p. 6⟩it, if that of Cardan be true, that an heavy Heart is eased by nothing so much as by Sighs and Tears; because Tears empty the Head of some Vapours with which it is surcharged, and Sighs lighten the Heart of some fuliginous Damps that oppress it. These are Nature's Offers for Ease. You see the Reasons.
4thly. This would double the Affliction, not to grieve for such things as nearly touch us. To break the Bent and Course of Nature is dangerous. Affections, when strongly stirred, must have their Exercise, for fear of greater Harms. It is an Ease sometimes to mourn: Strangled Grief choaks the Heart: 1 Sam. 25. 37. Nabal's Heart became as a Stone within him, when he heard Tidings that mightily affected him; it had been better he had wept and mourned. As Chirurgeons first let the Sore soften, before they begin to draw it. Iob 2. 13. Iob's Friends said not a Word to him the first seven Days, for they saw that his Grief was great: They let Sorrow have its Course for a while. Stop Floods in their full Career, and they rage and swell. When the Death of a near Friend hath opened the Sluces, let the Waters play a little in the Channel, till it be calmer. Passions spend and tire themselves in their Exercise. Grief is sometimes eased by the Expression of it. There is Reason too for