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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.
1. The limitation it self is, as do others: Gr. as the rest, or residue; i. e. of mankind: by these he intends such as are not Christians, nor have been instructed in the Doctrines of the true Religion: and the comparison may be referred either to the Heathenish ⟨p. 5⟩modes used by them in their mourning, or else to the degrees of sorrow which they were wont to express in it.
2. The other limitation or explication of the former, is, in these words; which have no Hope. Hope is an Affection very serviceable for the alleviating of sorrow, and where that is not active, grief will grow up to despair.
2. The other limitation or explication of the former, is, in these words; which have no Hope. Hope is an Affection very serviceable for the alleviating of sorrow, and where that is not active, g•ief will grow up to despair.
3. Here is also one general help offered against this irregular and unbounded mourning, viz. Knowledge: I would not have you to be ignorant. Implying that it was Gentile ignorance, which made them so to mourn; the knowledge and the thorough persuasion of sound Principles will help to fortify us against the imitation of them.
3. Here is also one general help offered against this irregular and unbounded mourning, viz. Knowledge: I would not have you to be ignorant. Implying that it was Gentile ignorance, which made them so to mourn; the knowledge and the thorough perswasion of sound Principles will help to fortifie us against the imitation of them.