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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
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.
Doct. II. That Christians ought so to sorrow under the Sense of their Afflictions, as if they did not sorrow.
Their Affections must be moderately exercised. Having in the former Point showed what Sorrow may be allowed, or is required of a Christian, I shall show you here what Sorrow is disallowed or unlawful.
Their Affections must be moderately exercised. Having in the former Point shewed what Sorrow may be allowed, or is required of a Christian, I shall shew you here what Sorrow is disallowed or unlawful.
1. Such as overwhelmeth and dejecteth the Spirit, so as you are not your own Man. This is called a Fainting, or a sinking of the Soul under Affliction; Heb. 12. 5. Faint not when thou art rebuked of the Lord. As we must not slight it, so we must not faint under it; Fainting is, quando anima dejicitur de statu, when the Soul is put out of the Condition of a free Soul, and delivered over to the Possession of another. God hath given every Man this Fee-simple, to possess himself. Now we are not our selves when we are overcome with Grief and Sorrow; and therefore it is said, Luke 21. 19. In Patience possess your Souls: implying, that a Man hath not the use and command of his Soul, when he is overcome with Grief; it doth as it were dispossess ⟨p. 16⟩a Man of himself. You know of a drunken Man we say, he is not himself, because he hath not the free Use of his Reason. Now this being overwhelmed with Sorrow, is expressed in Scripture by this very Term, being drunk; as