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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.
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.
There are some who take this Phrase in our text, [who have no Hope,] to be a Paraphrasis to express the Heathen by, of whom that is one Title, Eph. 2.12. without Hope; as if Heathen and Hope-less Men were equivalent terms: Certain it is that ⟨p. 50⟩the Apostle useth this expression as a reason why the people of GOD should […] their Grief, upon all such occasions more than the Heathen do, Because th•se have • good Hope, whereas those have none at all. In the making out of this Proposition; there are two enquiries may be made & resolved, viz.
There are some who take this Phrase in our text, [who have no Hope,] to be a Paraphrasis to express the Heathen by, of whom that is one Title, Eph. 2.12. without Hope; as if Heathen and Hope-less Men were equivalent terms: Certain it is that ⟨p. 50⟩the Apostle useth this expression as a reason why the people of GOD should 〈…〉 their Grief, upon all such occasions more than the Heathen do, Because th•se have • good Hope, whereas those have none at all. In the making out of this Proposition; there are two enquiries may be made & resolved, viz.
1. What influence Hope hath upon our sorrow for the moderating of it.