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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.
10. And there have been some Children that even in their Infancy made a good discovery of their seriousness, according to the measure of their capacity of understanding the things of God, yea and beyond what could ordinarily be supposed to have been in them: though their understanding hath been small, yet there hath appeared in them the favour of some breathings after Christ, herein hath God been pleased to show his power; Possibly Jeroboam's Son was such an one; in whom There was some good towards the Lord God of Israel. And this also is a great encouragement to Hope; and when all these things are put together, they will certainly afford matter of relief.
10. And there have been some Children that even in their Infancy made a good discovery of their seriousness, according to the measure of their capacity of understanding the things of God, yea and beyond what could ordinarily be supposed to have been in them: though their understanding hath been small, yet there hath appeared in them the favour of some breathings after Christ, herein hath God been pleased to shew his power; Possibly Jeroboams Son was such an one; in whom There was some good towards the Lord God of Israel. And this also is a great encouragement to Hope; and when all these things are put together, they will certainly afford matter of releif.
2. We may now proceed to consider this with respect to adult persons. Or such as die after they are grown up to years of understanding; and see what Hope there is which we may entertain ourselves withal concerning them, and how far there may be the exercise of it for our support under the sorrow ⟨p. 90⟩that we feel for the loss of them: and here I shall first give some general Rules, and afterwards apply them to the particular respects▪ In general then.
2. We may now proceed to consider this with respect to adult persons. Or such as dy after they are grown up to years of understanding; and see what Hope there is which we may entertain ourselves withal concerning them, and how far there may be the exercise of it for our support under the sorrow