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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.
4. And they must die that their Grace may be perfected, and this is consequent upon the former: for till sin be totally abolished •n the man, his Grace must needs labour under imperfection. All the sanctification of a believer in this life is but in part, and because of this, he practically comes short in ⟨p. 18⟩every thing that he sets about: and it is no little trouble upon his spirits to find so much of the mixture of sinful defect in every thing which he takes in hand: but now Death passeth him over to the fullness of a perfect man in Christ; the Souls that are gone through Death unto Glory, are called The Spirits of Just Men made perfect: Heb. 12.23. there are they arrived unto entire Holiness; and this also they get by Dying.
4. And they must die that their Grace may be perfected, and this is consequent upon the former: for till sin be totally abolished •n the man, his Grace must needs labour under imperfection. All the sanctification of a believer in this life is but in part, and because of this, he practically comes short in ⟨p. 18⟩every thing that he sets about: and it is no little trouble upon his spirits to find so much of the mixture of sinful defect in every thing which he takes in hand: but now Death passeth him over to the fulness of a perfect man in Christ; the Souls that are gone through Death unto Glory, are called The Spirits of Just Men made perfect: Heb. 12.23. there are they arrived unto entire Holiness; and this also they get by Dying.
5. By Death Gods People are delivered from Satan and ungodly men, as long as they are here in this life, they dwell within the reach of these enemies, and they give them no little molestation; partly by Persecution, putting them to all the trouble they can; partly by Temptation, endeavouring to draw them aside into sin, that so they may wound their Souls; and partly by their ungodly lives, whereby they are to these a continual vexation, as the Sodomites were to Lot, whilst he dwelt among them; so that their life is a mere dwelling in Mesech, and sojourning in the Tents of Kedar: and these Daughters of Heth, makes them weary of their lives: but when they come to die they are then removed from them, and shall be molested with them no more for ever: they are now called away and carried to that