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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.
2. Not only is Gods absolute Supremacy, but his Righteousness to be acknowledged by us in such a case. Though the thing be terrible, yet he hath done nothing but what is just and equal in what he hath done; nothing but what we had reason to live in continual expectation of: he hath warned us of, and threatened such things as these, that such as go on boldly in their transgressions and will not be reclaimed, shall perish, and that quickly too; Prov. 29.1. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy; he hath declared that strange Judgments do wait for, and shall fall upon such refractory ones as these: and they that will live wickedly under all the means of grace, and strivings of Gods Spirit with them from time •o time, have a great deal of reason to look for Gods Hand to overtake them every day, and when it doth thus fall out, it is no new or strange thing. God is holy in all these ways of his, and just in all these doings.
2. Not only is Gods absolute Supremacy, but his Righteousness to be acknowledged by us in such a case. Though the thing be terrible, yet he hath done nothing but what is just and equal in what he hath done; nothing but what we had reason to live in continual expectation of: he hath warned us of, and threatned such things as these, that such as go on boldly in their transgressions and will not be reclaimed, shall perish, and that quickly too; Prov. 29.1. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy; he hath declared that strange Judgments do wait for, and shall fall upon such refractory ones as these: and they that will live wickedly under all the means of grace, and strivings of Gods Spirit with them from time •o time, have a great deal of reason to look for Gods Hand to overtake them every day, and when it doth thus fall out, it is no new or strange thing. God is holy in all these ways of his, and just in all these doings.