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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.
2. What Grief and Sorrow this is that God alloweth and approveth. What is sinful Grief I shall show you in the next Point: here what is lawful and required.
2. What Grief and Sorrow this is that God alloweth and approveth. What is sinful Grief I shall shew you in the next Point: here what is lawful and required.
I answer; Not every Sorrow: For there is [Greek or Hebrew], as well as [Greek or Hebrew]; a godly Sorrow, and a worldly Sorrow; 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly Sorrow worketh Repentance to Salvation, not to be repented of; but the Sorrow of the World worketh Death. In the general it must be a godly Sorrow. In these Respects;
I answer; Not every Sorrow: For there is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, as well as 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; a godly Sorrow, and a worldly Sorrow; 2 Cor. 7. 10. Godly Sorrow worketh Repentance to Salvation, not to be repented of; but the Sorrow of the World worketh Death. In the general it must be a godly Sorrow. In these Respects;
(1.) You must see somewhat of God in the Affliction. It is a Motive this on both Hands, both to Sensibleness and Patience, that it is from God: Heb. 12. 5. My Son, despise not thou the Chastening of the Lord; because it is from God. A Man slights every ordinary Chance; but when it is from God, then it worketh more effectual upon the Spirit: As we see in the case of the Philistines;