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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
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Sermon › Proposition 6 › Application 2: USE II.Sermon › Proposition 6 › Application 2: VSE II.
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3. Their mourning puts them by their Duties which they owe the constant performance of unto God. Any thing that obstructs a Christian Conversation, and takes men off from the service of God is to be reproved, and there are the Duties which we are called to a constant upholding of, and in so doing we express our faithfulness to God. The sorrow which drives us to more care and diligence in these than before we used, is profitable for us; but that which puts us off from them, and so gives a check to our progress in holiness, is to be reprehended. All Christians are by Duty called to be spiritual Priests unto God, i. e. they are to offer up Sacrifices of Thanksgiving unto him in an holy life: now the Priest of old, was not to lay off his garments for mourning, i. e. he was not to unfit himself for the service of the Altar. If Gods Children do by their sorrow put themselves out of any disposition ⟨p. 123⟩for the duties incumbent on them, they do amiss; and that this reproof may take effect upon us, let us consider;
3. Their mourning puts them by their Duties which they ow the constant performance of unto God. Any thing that obstructs a Christian Conversation, and takes men off from the service of God is to be reproved, and there are the Duties which we are called to a constant upholding of, and in so doing we express our faithfulness to God. The sorrow which drives us to more care and diligence in these than before we used, is profitable for us; but that which puts us off from them, and so gives a check to our progress in holiness, is to be reprehended. All Christians are by Duty called to be spiritual Priests unto God, i. e. they are to offer up Sacrifices of Thanksgiving unto him in an holy life: now the Priest of old, was not to lay off his garments for mourning, i. e. he was not to unfit himself for the service of the Altar. If Gods Children do by their sorrow put themselves out of any disposition ⟨p. 123⟩for the duties incumbent on them, they do amiss; and that this reproof may take effect upon us, let us consider;