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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.
1st. From want of Consideration. There can be no Patience where there is no Sense of Evils. They will not give their Thoughts leave to work upon such Objects. I do not say, we must make it the Cause or Object of our Mourning; yet I say, we must make it the Occasion: this must awaken sad Thoughts in us about our own Sins, or others Sufferings; but they will not think of it. These are such as are described by the Prophet, to put far away the evil Day, Amos 6. 3. that is, all Consideration of God's Dealings with them, or others.
2dly. From indulging Pleasure. A voluptuous Spirit is an insensible Spirit; Eph. 4. 19. Who being past feeling, give ⟨p. 13⟩themselves over to work Uncleanness with Greediness. So it is said, Hos. 4. 11. Whoredom and Wine do take away the Heart; that is, all Smartness and Quickness of Affection. When the Soul is sleeping in Pleasure, there is a Brawniness brought over it. Pleasure is the Drunkenness of the Soul, and a drunken Man feeleth nothing; Prov. 23. 35. They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not.
3dly. Vain Thoughts; Jer. 4. 14. How long shall vain Thoughts dwell within thee? Evil Workings of Spirit, either seeking a way how they may get out, or contriving how it maketh for their worldly Advantage. The Devil darts evil Thoughts in us, how a Cross by some sinful course may work for our temporal Good, our State augmented thereby, or capable of farther Contentment and Advancement in the World.