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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.
2. Such as is peevish. When Men indulge themselves in their Disquiets, and will not hearken to what might make for the Settlement of their Souls. When the Heart yieldeth to Passion, and huggeth Grief, and will not let it go. There is a great deal of Pride and Stomach in Men against God's Dispensations, and therefore the Prophet expresseth that intolerable Misery that should light upon her Children by the Stomachfulness that was in Rachel: Jer. 31. 15. Weeping for her Children, she would not be comforted. Men have no Ear to hearken to what may be said for God, and therefore are resolved to hold the Bitterness of their own Thoughts. This stubborn Pettishness and wilful Grief may be sometimes in God's own Chosen: it was in Jacob, Gen. 37. 35. He refused to be comforted; for he said, I will go down into ⟨p. 17⟩the Grave unto my Son mourning. I will; it was a stomached wilful Grief. Christians, by a perverse peevish justifying of their Passions, they say of their Sorrows, as Jonah did of his Anger, Jonah 4. 9. I do well to be angry. When Men take it for granted, they do well in it, they resolve then to shut their Ears against whatever might appease and quiet their Thoughts.
2. Such as is peevish. When Men indulge themselves in their Disquiets, and will not hearken to what might make for the Settlement of their Souls. When the Heart yieldeth to Passion, and huggeth Grief, and will not let it go. There is a great deal of Pride and Stomach in Men against God's Dispensations, and therefore the Prophet expresseth that intolerable Misery that should light upon her Children by the Stomachfulness that was in Rachel: Jer. 31. 15. Weeping for her Children, she would not be comforted. Men have no Ear to hearken to what may be said for God, and therefore are resolved to hold the Bitterness of their own Thoughts. This stubborn Pettishness and wilful Grief may be sometimes in God's own Chosen: it was in Iacob, Gen. 37. 35. He refused to be comforted; for he said, I will go down into