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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. For the public Miseries. Private Sorrows should be swallowed up in the public. Look, as private Mercies are no Mercies, unless it be well with Zion; and therefore it is annexed as a special Blessing, Psal. 128. 6. that they should see their Children's Children, and Peace upon Israel. Descensive Love is strong always, but in these times more strong, because every one expected the Messiah to come of his Race; ⟨p. 11⟩but that is nothing without Peace upon Israel, it is not a consummate Mercy without that. Private Griefs are nothing in comparison of the Miseries of Zion; 1 Sam. 4. 21. The Glory is departed! the Glory is departed! Though she lost a Father, lost an Husband, that was sad; but she reflects upon the principal Cause of Grief, the Misery of the Church of God. So see Jer. 22. 10. Weep ye not for the Dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away, for he shall return no more to his native Country: Not for good Josiah, but the Misery of wicked Shallum. Thus it must be Godly in respect to the End, to draw you to God these ways.
3dly. For the publick Miseries. Private Sorrows should be swallowed up in the publick. Look, as private Mercies are no Mercies, unless it be well with Sion; and therefore it is annexed as a special Blessing, Psal. 128. 6. that they should see their Childrens Children, and Peace upon Israel. Descensive Love is strong always, but in these times more strong, because every one expected the Messiah to come of his Race; ⟨p. 11⟩but that is nothing without Peace upon Israel, it is not a consummate Mercy without that. Private Griefs are nothing in comparison of the Miseries of Sion; 1 Sam. 4. 21. The Glory is departed! the Glory is departed! Though she lost a Father, lost an Husband, that was sad; but she reflects upon the principal Cause of Grief, the Misery of the Church of God. So see