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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.
and such as these will be illustrious instances of the rich Grace of God in the great day of Accounts: when therefore such persons die, we may and ought to have strong hopes concerning them.
and such as these will be illustrious instances of the rich Grace of God in the great day of Accounts: when therefore such persons dy, we may and ought to have strong hopes concerning them.
3. There are some who only lead a sober and civil life among men. They make no great open profession of piety, they are not in their carriage and dep•rtment of themselves, zealous for the promoting of the interest of Religion, though they discover nothing against it, but show a favour for it; they live honestly and quietly among men; they are neither drawn into debaucheries with lewd men, nor to the strict duties of piety with Godly men; though they attend upon the commodities of Religion: thus they live, and thus they die; there is very little can be said for them, and very little against them. Concerning such as these let these two things be observed.
3. There are some who only lead a sober and civil life among men. They make no great open profession of piety, they are not in their cariage and dep•rtment of themselves, zealous for the promoting of the interest of Religion, though they discover nothing against it, but shew a favour for it; they live honestly and quietly among men; they are neither drawn into d•baucheries with lewd men, nor to the strict duties of pie•y with Godly men; though they attend upon the commodities of Religion: thus they live, and thus they dy; there is very little can be said for them, and very little against them. Concerning such as these let these two things be observed.