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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.
Sermon › Proposition 6 › Application 2: USE II.Sermon › Proposition 6 › Application 2: VSE II.
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USE II.
VSE II.
This may also serve to reprehend the immoderate mourning of Christians, as if they had no hope. It is true▪ we ought to bear a great deal one with another in Infirmities, and not to insult over such as are over much born down by them: but Gods People ought not to allow themselves in any such thing, but willingly admit of a reproof for it: and I hardly know any one thing in which they do more deserve it: how many be there who are like Rachel, they mourn for their Dead, and refuse to be comforted, because they are not? who seem to take a kind of a sullen contentment in nourishing and giving way to sinking reflections on their spirits, whereby they may aggravate instead of mitigating their Grief, and that both by indecent words, and uncomely gestures? In words they express themselves so as if their loss were insupportable, their bereavement irreparable, murmuring against Gods Providence, charging him with hard dealing, and expressing prejudices against him: and in ⟨p. 121⟩gestures carrying of themselves after such a manner as carries abundant reason to make them ashamed of. In sum, this rebuke speaks to such who;
This may also serve to reprehend the immoderate mourning of Christians, as if they had no hope. It is true▪ we ought to bear a great deal one with another in Infirmities, and not to insult over such as are over much born down by them: but Gods People ought not to allow themselves in any such thing, but willingly admit of a reproof for it: and I hardly know any one thing in which they do more deserve it: how many be there who are like Rachel, they mourn for their Dead, and refuse to be comforted, because they are not? who seem to take a kind of a sullen contentment in nourish•ng and giving way to sinking reflections on their spirits, whereby they may aggravate instead of mitigating their Grief, and that both by indecent words, and uncomely gestures? In words they express themselves so as if their loss were insupportable, their bereavement irreparable, murmuring against Gods Providence, charging him with hard dealing, and expressing prejudices against him: and in