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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.
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. Mourn too much. Their lamentations are excessive, they out do in quantity: they can set no bounds to their sorrow, but suffer themselves to be quite over-whelmed; their grief drinks up their Spirits: leaves them no room or liberty to take any comfort in any of the other many mercies and blessings of God which are yet continued to them, or giving to him the due acknowledgement of them, but, as if their comforts were all gone at one stroke, they cast themselves into the current, and suffer themselves to be carried away in the stream of sorrow: and there is not one word to be thrust in or spoken to them which they will hear, they cannot bear to be told of any thing that might relieve them in the least, or convince them of their Duty of patient and submissive bearing the hand of God that is upon them; the very mention of such a thing puts them into the most violent transports of an ungoverned passion.
1. Mourn too much. Their lamentations are excessive, they out do in quantity: they can set no bounds to their sorrow, but suffer themselves to be quite over-whelmed; their grief drinks up their Spirits: leaves them no room or liberty to take any comfort in any of the other many mercies and blessings of God which are yet continued to them, or giving to him the due acknowledgement of them, but, as if their comforts were all gone at one stroak, they cast themselves into the current, and suffer themselves to be carried away in the stream of sorrow: and there is not one word to be thrust in or spoken to them which they will hear, they cannot bear to be told of any thing that might relieve them in the least, or convince them of their Duty of patient and submissive bearing the hand of God that is upon them; the very mention of such a thing puts them into the most violent transports of an ungoverned passion.
2. Mourn too long. If it were only for the present, whilst their spirits are under a sudden surprise, and by reason thereof their sorrows are too hard for them, having gotten an advantage over them; although this ⟨p. 122⟩