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The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…
The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have concerning their dead friends / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Five lines from II Corinthians]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Sermon › Proposition 5 › Application 2: USE II.Sermon › Proposition 5 › Application 2: VSE II.
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.
USE II.
VSE II.
To exhort Gods children to set themselves to use the means against this excessive Heathenish mourning. The main help against this will take in with the following proposition, but here be advised in general,
1. To avoid every unnecessary thing which may tend to put your Affections beyond the due bounds. And one thing I would here point at is the keeping of your dead too long in your fight. Abraham was a gracious man, and he wept and mourned at Sarah's, death, as a testimony of the tender love he bare to her; but he knew his own infirmity, and how much such an object lying always before his eyes, would tend to put his affections out of order; he therefore desires as soon as is convenient to have her interred, and so removed out of his sight, Gen. 23.4.
1. To avoid every unnecessary thing which may tend to put your Affections beyond the due bounds. And one thing I would here piont at is the keeping of your dead too long in your fight. Abraham was a gracious man, and he wept and mourned at Sarah's, death, as a testimony of the tender love he bare to her; but he knew his own infirmity, and how much such an object lying always before his eyes, would tend to put his affections out of order; he therefore desires as soon as is convenient to have her interred, and so removed out of his sight,