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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.
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.
3dly. Vain Thoughts; Ier. 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.