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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
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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.
8. We are fully assured that there are multitudes of such as these are now in the kingdom: The word of God is very clear and plain for this▪ It was the argument which our Saviour Christ used to encourage their bringing of little children to him, when his Disciples would have prohibited them, math. 19.13.14. of such is the kingdom of Heaven; which text of Scripture assures us both that Jesus Christ hath a special favour for children, and that they are the Subjects ⟨p. 88⟩of his Grace and Glory; By the word [Such] cannot be meant such in quality, or disposition, as some would go about to put us off, for why did Christ take these little Children into his arms, & Bless them? they whom he Blesseth are Blessed indeed: the meaning therefore plainly is, of such as die in that age, that are taken away in their infancy: and there is a great deal of reason to draw this inference from it, that there are more of that than of any other Age, in Heaven.
8. We are fully assured that there are multitudes of such as these are now in the kingdome: The word of God is very clear and plain for this▪ It was the argument which our Saviour Christ used to encourage their bringing of little children to him, when his Disciples would have prohibited them, math. 19.13.14. of such is the kingdom of Heaven; which text of Scripture assures us both that Jesus Christ hath a special favour for children, and that they are the Subjects ⟨p. 88⟩of his Grace and Glory; By the word [Such] cannot be meant such in quality, or disposition, as some would go about to put us off, for why did Christ take these little Children into his arms, & Bless them? they whom he Blesseth are Blessed indeed: the meaning therefore plainly is, of such as dy in that age, that are taken away in their infancy: and there is a great deal of reason to draw this inference from it, that there are more of that than of any other Age, in Heaven.