The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

1. This Hope doth not take away all occasion of mourning wholly from us; because there is undoubtedly a present grievous loss sustained by us • we a•• •••sers by the Death of all such on a temporal respect▪ for we are bereaved of their desirable and delectable company; we can no farther enjoy them, and solace ourselves with them in this life; we have no hopes ever to see them any more among the living; all the benefit which […] had by their sweet company, pleasant intercourses or whatsoever was dear to us in their presence with it, is now utterly gone, and we must see their faces and hear their voices no more; yea and many times there is a great deal of the sense of the anger of God imprinted upon our minds, upon the taking of such away from us; and a sad and sorrowful remembrance is left behind of the fearful provocation that we had given to God to bereave u•, and that carries a sad and smarting sting in it, which makes deep wounds in our consciences, and ingeminates our grief. And they are lost also as to themselves in many respects They are •o•t in respect of the present life, which is in it self a very desirable blessing, but now they are cut off from it, and it may be in the very bud, or in the blossom of their age, before they have had the opportunities to do much of their work; and their bodies are lost as to any capacity of being serviceable to their souls in their natural employments and rational services, being now ⟨p. 61⟩laid by in a rotting grave, deprived of all life and motion, they are therefore lost as to any farther opportunity of glorifying God among the living: might they have been spa•ed and suffered to have lived a little longer, they might have been precious instruments of the Honour of God, been capable of doing much good in their generation, and how much would this also have also tended to their everlasting benefit, but now they are lost as to all this, the deal praise thee not, &c. Psal. 115.17. and these things do carry evil, and matter of mourning in them but.