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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 3: USE III.Sermon › Proposition 6 › Application 3: VSE III.
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.
USE III.
VSE III.
Let it now be for a word of Exhortation to all that hear this Truth, that we labour to get, strengthen, and improve this Hope. Hath God graciously provided such an Hope for his people? let us then make it our own, and when we have gotten it, let us nourish it, and be in a readiness to make use of it at all times when Gods Providence calls us to have the occasion to improve it.
To move us hereto, consider,
1. You cannot well live without it in this world of change; and it will be very uncomfortable Travelling through this Wilderness without such a cordial to refresh your tired Spirits; for you must expect to meet with such occasions of sorrow as well as other men. Gods people are not to promise themselves a discharge from this War any more than other men: if they should be so foolish as to feed themselves up with an expectation of it, their experience would in a little time confute these expectations.