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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 2 › Application 2: USE II.Sermon › Proposition 2 › Application 2: VSE II.
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 II.
VSE II.
Let this teach the children of God to maintain their hopes by looking upon something beyond Death. The Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 15.19. if our hope in Christ were for this life only, we were of all men most miserable; and it must needs be so upon this article, that believers must die as well as others; for who meet with more of the troubles of this life than they do? It is the great folly of ungodly men, who think their houses are for ever, that they lean upon them, and that they look for, and lay up nothing on the other side of the grave▪ but let not the people of God do so, who live in continual expectation of their change, and are throughly persuaded that there is nothing in this world that can be a suitable supply for that eternity into which they are posting. Let our Hope then live upon such things as Death it self can never be able to touch. If Grace cannot secure us from dying, let us then exercise it unto the making sure of something, which shall be to us better than li••.
Let this teach the children of God to maintain their hopes by looking upon something beyond Death. The Apostle saith, 1 Cor. 15.19. if our hope in Christ were for this life only, we were of all men most miserable; and it must needs be so upon this article, that believers must die as well as others; for who meet with more of the troubles of this life than they do? It is the great folly of ungodly men, who think their houses are for ever, that they lean upon them, and that they look for, and lay up nothing on the other side of the grave but let not the people of God do so, who live in continual expectation of their change, and are throughly perswaded that there is nothing in this world that can be a sutable supply for that eternity into which they are posting. Let our Hope then live upon such things as Death it self can never be able to touch. If Grace cannot secure us from dying, let us then exercise it unto the making sure of something, which shall be to us better than li.