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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.
2. Be very Faithful in doing of your Duty to your Friends whiles they live with you. As God is wont very often to give his blessing unto the use of means, by making it successful in the thing intended, so usually he affords the greatest comfort to those who being bound in Duty so to use them, are accordingly most careful and conscientious therein. And on the other Hand, it oftentimes so falls out, that God brings about his Holy Purposes of destroying some sinners, by suffering of those under whose care and watch they were, to be remiss and negligent in the discharge of their Duty to them. Eli, in a great measure neglects his Duty to his Sons, and God tells him of it, but he mends it not, and the reason is, because God would destroy them; and it is not recorded for nothing concerning Adonijah, 1 Kings 1.6 that his Father had not displeased him at any time, in saying why hast thou done so? and this becomes not only a righteous punishment of them that perish, but a just chastisement of the others neglect; there are the Relative Duties which we owe one to another, and when they are sincerely discharged, this will afford good nourishment ⟨p. 132⟩unto hope: we owe to our Children, when they are grown up to a capacity of it, instruction, good example, a restraining them from exorbitant courses, a teaching of them the good word, and ways of God, and this is the way in which God hath said he will bestow the blessing upon them, Gen. 18.19. let us then be careful in this matter; & here;
2. Be very Faithful in doing of your Duty to your Friends whiles they live with you. As God is wont very often to give his blessing unto the use of means, by making it successful in the thing intended, so usually he affords the greatest comfort to those who being bound in Duty so to use them, are accordingly most careful and conscientious therein. And on the other Hand, it oftentimes so falls out, that God brings about his Holy Purposes of destroying some sinners, by suffering of those under whose care and watch they were, to be remisse and negligent in the discharge of their Duty to them. Eli, in a great measure neglects his Duty to his Sons, and God tells him of it, but he mends it not, and the reason is, because God would destroy them; and it is not recorded for nothing concerning Adonijah,