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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.
4. It puts men upon the exercise of Patience. Impatience under sorrow, makes it to be a great deal more burdensome than otherwise it would be: now the genuine fruit of Hope is patience: when expectation is raised in a man, it puts him upon waiting, and makes him quiet in waiting; and this is proportionable to the degrees that hope hath arrived to; so that when the good expected is certain to come without fail, and ⟨p. 56⟩there is a clear prospect that when it doth come, it will make a full compensation for all the trouble which hath been sustained, together with the removal of it from him; a comfortable persuasion that it shall be so, makes him to be earnestly looking out for it, and to satisfy himself for the present with the expectation of it. This may suffice for the consideration of Hope in general; it follows to enquire.
4. It puts men upon the exereise of Patience. Impatience under sorrow, makes it to be a great deal more burdensom than otherwise it would be: now the genuine fruit of Hope is patience: when expectation is raised in a man, it puts him upon waiting, and makes him quiet in waiting; and this is proportionable to the degrees that hope hath arrived to; so that when the good expected is certain to come without fail, and ⟨p. 56⟩there is a clear prospect that when it doth come, it will make a full compensation for all the trouble which hath been susteined, together with the removal of it from him; a comfortable perswasion that it shall be so, makes him to be earnestly looking out for it, and to satisfy himself for the present with the expectation of it. This may suffice for the consideration of Hope in general; it follows to enquire.
2: What ground of Hope the people of God have, concerning their Dead, more then other men have.