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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.
9. And they are not incapable of having the Gospel condition wrought in them, it is true, they are not in a capacity of being regenerated by the ordinary means which are appointed for the conversion of adult persons; they cannot attend upon the Preaching of the word, they cannot be taught by the counsels and instructions of parents, because they are not able to understand any thing in this way; but there are some means which they are capable of having used for them, and because God hath appointed them, we may hope for his Blessing upon them; they may be Baptized, and they may be prayed for; and the Spirit of God is able to do all that for them which they want in order to their being made meet for the Inheritance. They have Humane Souls which are subjects capable of being Sanctified, and purged by his Holy Operation upon them; and tho' ⟨p. 89⟩he hath tied us to the use of the means according to our advantage, yet he is not himself tied up, so as not to do it for them: Divines Generally suppose that Jeremiah, and John Baptist, were Sanctified in the womb: I dispute it not, but I am sure this is not too hard for God, & he hath done it, because there are many such Glorified.
9. And they are not incapable of haveing the Gospel condition wrought in them, it is true, they are not in a capacity of being regenerated by the ordinary means which are appointed for the conversion of adult persons; they cannot attend upon the Preaching of the word, they cannot be taught by the counsels and instructions of parents, because they are not able to understand any thing in this way; but there are some means which they are capable of having used for them, and because God hath appointed them, we may hope for his Blessing upon them; they may be Baptized, and they may be prayed for; and the Spirit of God is able to do all that for them which they want in order to their being made meet for the Inheritance. They have Humane Souls which are subjects capable of being Sanctified, aad purged by his Holy Operation upon them; and tho' ⟨p. 89⟩he hath tied us to the use of the means according to our advantage, yet he is not himself tied up, so as not to do it for them: Divines Generally suppose that Jeremiah, and John Baptist, were Sanctified in the womb: I dispute it not, but I am sure this is not too hard for God, & he hath done it, because there are many such Glorified.