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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.
2. With regard to them who are Dead. Though a lifeless body, which they leave upon our hands lying by the Walls, to be commended to the cold and silent Grave, ⟨p. 63⟩where it must be entertained with Worms and Rottenness, and be turned into putrefaction and dust, are sad entertainments to our Melancholy thoughts; yet God hath provided our hope with a comfortable repast for the present, when we look off from this sad spectacle, and remember that their immortal soul no sooner took their flight from their dying bodies, but they immediately fell into the hands of glorious Angels, and were by them royally guarded to the Palace of delight, and are now sweetly entertained in the bosom and embraces of the Lord Jesus Christ; perfectly freed from all sin and sorrow, which shall never more molest them; filled with joys and pleasures in that blessed Kingdom: that they went from hence directly into Paradise, and are now, whiles we are in heaviness for them, singing of endless Hallelujahs: that they have but broken their prison, and obtained the greatest and most blessed enlargement: that their better part now lives, and is with Christ which is best of all. And this for the present.
2. With regard to them who are Dead. Though a lifeless body, which they leave upon our hands lying by the Walls, to be commended to the cold and silent Grave, ⟨p. 63⟩where it must be entertained with Worms and Rottenness, and be turned into putrefaction and dust, are sad entertainments to our Melancholy thoughts; yet God hath provided our hope with a comfortable repast for the present, when we look off from this sad spectacle, and remember that their immortal soul no sooner took their flight from their dying bodyes, but they immediatly fell into the hands of glorious Angels, and were by them royally guarded to the Palace of delight, and are now sweetly entertained in the bosome and embraces of the Lord Jesus Christ; perfectly freed from all sin and sorrow, which shall never more molest them; filled with joys and pleasures in that blessed Kingdom: that they went from hence directly into Paradise, and are now, whiles we are in heaviness for them, singing of endless Hallelujahs: that they have but broken their prison, and obtained the greatest and most blessed enlargement: that their better part now lives, and is with Christ which is best of all. And this for the present.