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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.
7. All the Arguments of our Hope, are to be fetched from the new Covenant. It is in that Covenant that the only foundation for fallen mans hope is laid: It is one Epithet that is put upon that legal estate, or the relation which men have to the first Covenant, that it is without Hope, Eph. 2.1•. The unhappy fall hath brought the whole race of mankind under the sentence of Condemnation: man, woman, and child are so many dead persons according to the tenor of that Covenant: the curse of Death is fallen upon them, which hath bound them over to the suffering of all misery. It is in the new Gospel Covenant that life and immortality ⟨p. 75⟩are brought to light; and as the only way to Salvation is there made known to us, so the foundation upon which Salvation is to be hoped for, is there alone to be found & it is according thereunto that we have solid encouragement.
7. All the Arguments of our Hope, are to be fetched f•om the new Covenant. It is in that Covenant that the only foundation for fallen mans hope is laid: It is one Epithe•e that is put upon that legal estate, or the relation which men have to the first Covenant, that it is without Hope, Eph. 2.1•. The unhappy fall hath brought the whole race of mankind under the sentence of Condemnation: man, woman, and child are so many dead persons according to the tenour of that Covenant: the curse of Death is fallen upon them, which hath bound them over to the suffering of all misery. It is in the new Gospel Covenant that life and imtality ⟨p. 75⟩are brought to light; and as the only way to Salvation is there made known to us, so the foundation upon which Salvation is to be hoped for, is there alone to be found & it is according thereunto that we have solid encouragement.