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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 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.
4. The exercise of this Hope will be very comfortable and profitable to you in such an hour. It will greatly heighten your spirits when they are ready to sink under the weight of sorrow; it will revive you when you are almost fainting with Grief; it will give the Soul a standing, and enable it to feel the ground when it is in the Flood; we live by Hope, Rom. 8.24. It was Davids Catholicon against all despondencies, as we find, in Psal. 42, 43. this will be to us, light in darkness, joy in sorrow, comfort in heaviness, yea life in death it self: it will help you over the dashing billows which threaten to drown you, and afford you renewals of strength to enable you to hold on your course, and cheerfully to travel through' all the vicissitudes of time: by this you shall live comfortably in the midst of all these Storms, which will sink them that want it.
4. The exercise of this Hope will be very comfortable and profitable to you in such an hour. It will greatly heighten your spirits when they are ready to sink under the weight of sorrow; it will revive you when you are almost fainting with Grief; it will give the Soul a standing, and enable it to feel the ground when it is in the Flood; we live by Hope, Rom. 8.24. It was Davids Catholicon against all despondencies, as we find, in Psal. 42, 43. this will be to us, light in darkness, joy in sorrow, comfort in heaviness, yea life in death it self: it will help you over the dashing billows which threaten to drown you, and afford you renewals of strength to enable you to hold on your course, and chearfully to travel thro' all the vicissitudes of time: by this you shall live comfortably in the midst of all these Storms, which will sink them that want it.
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