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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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Use 1. It condemneth that Slightness of Spirit that is in most Persons. God entereth into their Families, and taketh thence a principal Pillar, a Husband or Wife, but they are not affected with it; they carelessly slight it, as if nothing had been done, or some chance had befallen them. A Roman bragged, Se nunquam cum matre, &c. They may say they were never comforted, they never needed it, they lay nothing to Heart. Brethren, the Use of Divinity indeed is to compose and still the Spirit, not to make it stupid. I am sorry that I am forced to speak any thing ⟨p. 12⟩to trouble you, I had rather comfort: but there is no true Rest where there hath not been a due Trouble; therefore I must a little speak against this Stoical Patience and Insensibleness. And because Discovery of Sin doth more wound the Heart, than all the Forcibleness of Expression we can use, I shall not cudgel it with barren Invectives, but labour to discover this sinful careless Insensibleness to the Heart, and distinguish it from an holy Patience. I have been often upon such like Subjects, therefore shall say the less now. I shall difference it chiefly in their Grounds.
Use 1. It condemneth that Slightness of Spirit that is in most Persons. God entereth into their Families, and taketh thence a principal Pillar, a Husband or Wife, but they are not affected with it; they carelesly slight it, as if nothing had been done, or some chance had befallen them. A Roman bragged, Se nunquam cum matre, &c. They may say they were never comforted, they never needed it, they lay nothing to Heart. Brethren, the Use of Divinity indeed is to compose and still the Spirit, not to make it stupid. I am sorry that I am forced to speak any thing ⟨p. 12⟩to trouble you, I had rather comfort: but there is no true Rest where there hath not been a due Trouble; therefore I must a little speak against this Stoical Patience and Insensibleness. And because Discovery of Sin doth more wound the Heart, than all the Forcibleness of Expression we can use, I shall not cudgel it with barren Invectives, but labour to discover this sinful careless Insensibleness to the Heart, and distinguish it from an holy Patience. I have been often upon such like Subjects, therefore shall say the less now. I shall difference it chiefly in their Grounds.