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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.
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. Those are but seeming comforts, whereas ⟨p. 7⟩these are real. They are but the shadow▪ these are the substance of Consolation. Of the worlds comforts, we have the Wis•mans observation upon them, Prov. 13.14. E•en in Laughter the heart is sorrowful; they think they have some refreshments, but indeed they have none. But the comforts of Gods Children are realities: they are therefore said to inherit substance: there are true settled refreshments in the Joys of the Holy Ghost, which these partake in: there is neither delusion nor deceit in them.
1. Those are but seeming comforts, whereas ⟨p. 7⟩these are real. They are but the shadow▪ these are the substance of Consolation. Of the worlds comforts, we have the Wis•mans observation upon them, Prov. 13.14. E•en in Laughter the heart is sorrowful; they think they have some refreshments, but indeed they have none. But the comforts of Gods Children are realities: they are therefore said to inherit substance: there are true setled refreshments in the Joys of the Holy Ghost, which these partake in: there is neither delusion nor deceit in them.
2. They are of mens own making, but these are of Gods providing. Ungodly men arrogate them to themselves they snatch at, and take them without any leave, or title to them; they walk in the light of their own fir•, and by the sparks which they have kindled,